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The Lady of Burma
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Richard Shannon
The Lady of Burma is a one woman
show written and directed by Richard Shannon. It
is set, as the script says, "in a dark space".
The play tells the story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the
leader of the peaceful, political movement to free
Burma from military dictatorship. Suu has been kept
under house arrest for the last thirteen years and
remains so today.
The play starts and ends with
an attempt by the military regime to kill her. They
fail and, instead, she is imprisoned. It is from
her prison cell in the aftermath of the attack that
she tells the story of how the Oxford-educated wife
of an English academic became a symbol of hope for
her people.
The brief for the sound design
was to create a sequence of sound images that work
in parrallel with the text and evoke the key events
in the story. And always, lurking in the background,
the horror of the attack.
The Lady of Burma opened at the
Old Vic in November 2006
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