In what must be the most straightforward of the many verbatim shows in this year’s fringe, Eliot Weinberger repeats a series of statements he has heard being made about Iraq since 1992. A cast of five reports the statements and, tellingly, who made them.

Sometimes they use an accent - Sean Mullin’s Arnold Schwarzenegger provides a welcome laugh amidst the enormity of what else is being said. Occasionally Lewis Alsamari translates into Arabic a statement made by an American politician specifically for Iraqi consumption. But mostly this is a plain list of things said in public by politicians.

It should, by rights, be pretty tedious. Sadly, it is compelling stuff which forms in a horribly dramatic structure as the statements change over time.

There’s an introduction, where Iraq is said to be a proven toothless threat, then an exposition when that truth is refuted. A long, bloody climax when reports of how American and British politicians dealt with that threat are given, and a finale, when the original statements are found to have been true after all.

The occasional back-projected photograph and a set of Perspex boxes containing the detritus of war add to a strong piece of theatre which finds condemnation of those responsible through their own words.