Richie Smartt

Dead Men Tell No Tales Richie Smartt

Compelling play about a dynasty of the human race, are we all psychopaths or just figures of our intellect. Selina Sra Opening set I was hooked deeply interesting and extraordinary moving depiction of survival of mankind with twists of madness, pain, manipulation and despair . Asian Times Rupert Singh A disturbing play if deep broad mediation on violence from atrocity to forgiveness, the paradoxes of representation and tears of war, sincere and otherwise with a twist. This is a rare achievement . There are many play writes where the writer speaks of war and the dark evil, and none that are written with such literacy self -consciousness. Leo Mackintosh Dead Men Tell No Tales, well outside the boundaries of established academic discourse, and the firm of the play is extraordinary in many ways. Richie Smartt not only probes the depths of the human capacity of atrocity, but also explores in an altogether original and hearty unrepeatable way the human capacity for sympathy or empathy with those whose acts have placed them beyond the pale of civilised society.