'Too challenging? Tackling genocide in a play for young people'

Katori Hall, whose Olivier-winning play The Mountaintop had its world premiere in Theatre 503 above a Battersea pub and is now preparing for an Autumn run on Broadway with Samuel L Jackson playing Martin Luther King, is back in London with a new play. Children of Killers is about life in post-genocide Rwanda as a group of teenagers prepare to meet their fathers – otherwise known as the men responsible for the atrocities – now released from prison and returning to the village. The play is one of 10 pieces of new writing to be performed at the end of the month by young people as part of the National Theatre Connections Festival.

Hall talks about the process of developing the play with teenagers in New York in this Guardian Theeatre Blog:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2011/jul/01/rwanda-children-of-killers-national-theatre