Inquest into de Menezes killing to be adapted for stage on London fringe
London fringe venue the Landor Theatre is to stage a new play about the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.
Entitled Stockwell: The Inquest into the Death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the production will play at the Clapham venue, which is only a few hundred yards from where the killing took place.
It opens on July 22, four years to the day after the the 27-year old Brazilian was shot dead by police officers, after he was mistaken for a terrorist.
The show will explore “the sequence of events that led to the fatal shooting” and features testimony from the inquest from “surveillance and firearms officers, senior police coordinators, civilian witnesses to the shooting and relatives of de Menezes”.
Stockwell is created by Kieron Barry and Sophie Lifschutz, the writing / director partnership behind 2007’s Deepcut: Scenes From An Inquiry.
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