Magnitsky Play Performed in London and Washington DC
Performances of Russian playwright's Elena Gremina moving play "One Hour Eighteen," which attempts to chronicle Sergei Magnitsky's final moments were held in London and Washington DC earlier this month.
The play uses testimony from Magnitsky's diary, a radio interview with his mother, two judges, a prison doctor and paramedic, an investigator, and a young ambulance paramedic.
In Washington DC, US Representative Chris Smith, Chairman of the US Helsinki Commission and Co-Chairman Senator Benjamin L. Cardin hosted the performance with a briefing and discussion following.
Meanwhile in London, Hermitage Capital hosted the British premier of One Hour Eighteen on the same day. This production was translated and directed by Noah Birksted-Breen, the artistic director of the Sputnik Theatre Company and was part of Amnesty International's Everyone Has The Right, playwriting scheme run by the iceandfire theatre company.