Killing Castro

Killing Castro is a 2006 play by British playwright Brian Stewart. The Haymarket Productions's National Tour of the play was also performed at the Festival Theatre in Malvern in June 2006, and starred Robin Hood's Michael Praed and Clive Mantle.[1] It was described by the Birmingham Mail as an "acclaimed comedy" which "chronicles the more bizarre of America's attempts to kill the Cuban leader Fidel Castro - including filling his shoes with poison and inventing an exploding cigar."[2]

The play received mixed reviews in the UK. The Daily Telegraph said, "The British dramatist Brian Stewart appears to have got lucky with this intermittently entertaining but rather trite little play about the CIA's plots to bump off Fidel Castro".[3] Although, Michael Billington of The Guardian was much more complimentary: "Stewart's weapon is comedy. But his argument, that America will stop at nothing in its defiance of international law, is no different from that of Pinter in his Nobel speech".[4]

The play was published by Josef Weinberger in 2009.[5] In 2013, the play was translated into Polish by Karolina Mackiewicz and performed in repertory by the Teatr Polski Szczecin as Operacja Castro; the director was Bartłomiej Wysozomirski.[6]

References
  1. "Clive Mantle". The Lady Killers. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  2. "Worcestershire News: Play insight on Castro; MALVERN". Birmingham Mail, accessed via HighBeam Research. 25 May 2006. Archived from the original on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
  3. Theatre Record. I. Herbert. 2006. p. 690. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  4. Billington, Michael (May 30, 2006). "Killing Castro". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  5. Stewart, Brian (2009). Castro's Beard. UK: Josef Weinberger. ISBN 978 0 85676 326 7.
  6. "Operacja Castro". Teatr Polski Szczecin. Retrieved 4 April 2013.


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