ScotsGay Magazine

*****

Usually in shows when reviewing you make notes about the main points for future reference. In this show I gave up after about one minute such was the volume of information being thrown at the audience. The title says most of what you need to know, 5 actors all taking on different roles who repeat "I heard Donald Rumsfeld say" or The President say, or Tony Blair say, or whoever say.... Presented in this way and by taking quotes from different times the way we were systematically lied to from 1991 about Iraq becomes clear. If only 10% of the quotes were accurate then these murderous bastards should spend the rest of their days behind bars, and I've no reason to believe only 10% of them were true. In fact I remember about 10% of the quotes and know them to be accurate. However the most memorable one came from an anonymous Iraqi "Saddam Hussein's greatest crime is he brought the Americans to Iraq". The only error I spotted, and it's a fairly minor one, is that Harold Pinter did not win the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature.

The show ends with a quote from Lawrence from 2nd Aug 1920 which shows just how little some people have learnt. One of the unexpected highlights of this year's Fringe.

Martin Powell

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