The Empire
Royal Court, until 1 May
Polar Bears
Donmar, until 22 May
The Royal Court’s stuffy little upstairs theatre is hosting a new play about cultural imperialism. D.C. Moore sets his scene in Helmand where a young English corporal finds himself morally compromised by his desire to torture a Taleban prisoner.
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