Following a hugely successful and fringe-award winning stint at last year's Edinburgh Festival, hard hitting production What I Heard About Iraq is coming to Croydon.

What I Heard About Iraq is a powerful verbatim documentary drama of the Iraq war, using the actual words written and spoken by politicians, soldiers and civilians staged against the backdrop of a series of stunning photographs.

The European premiere at the Edinburgh festival last year won the Scotsman Fringe First award for innovation and outstanding new writing making the production a must see for those intrigued by the ins and out of the controversial war.

The production, adapted by Simon Levy, is performed by an international cast of five and is directed by Hannah Eidinow, who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the Royal Court, and previously achieved Edinburgh success with Fringe First winner Gone in 2004.

And as Levy himself says: "The play is neither fiction nor speculation. It takes audiences into the war and confronts them with the human drama, the human toll. It is not about history, or about something going on over there'.

"It is about what's going on right now, and how people worldwide are, and are not, reacting to it."

  • What I Heard About Iraq; Monday, April 30; 7.30pm; Croydon Clocktower.