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13 (The Play, Mike Bartlett, Iran, British Politics) - Coggle Diagram
13
The Play
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Centres around John, a Christ-like figure who has been gone for a long time due to the accidental death of his friend, and who preaches an anti-war movement
He begins to preach a gospel of belief, not in God but in the idea of belief itself—the requirement to commit oneself to some belief in order to bring about change
"An identical, terrifying dream haunts Londoners in the midst of economic gloom and ineffective protest. Whilst the prime minister considers a preventative war, a young man returns home with a vision for the future."
"Bartlett is saying that we live in a Britain where the old tribal loyalties are increasingly irrelevant. The real divide is between a popular protest movement, fed on Facebook and Twitter, that hungers for a change of direction, and an entrenched governmental system that clings precariously to the status quo."
Prime Minister must decide whether to take military action against Iran to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon
Mike Bartlett
13 seems to have grown out of Bartlett's own ambivalence about faith of all kinds, whether personal, religious or political
Bartlett's grandfather was a minister, and his grandson was brought up going to Sunday school. He questions whether he has ever actually believed in God
Whereas some writers might recoil from politics that are driven by religious faith, he has grown up in a world where that form of politics is an inescapable fact.
Bartlett has little enthusiasm for the certainties of militant atheists. Their certainty represents the opposite of what Bartlett values in theatre—ambiguity - "It's not clear what the viewpoint behind the play is. That's good.” (Bartlett doesn't give away his religious beliefs in the play)
Iran
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In November 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported credible evidence that Iran had been conducting experiments aimed at designing a nuclear bomb, and that research may have continued on a smaller scale after that time.
The IAEA has consistently stated it is unable to conclude that Iran's nuclear program is entirely peaceful. Such a conclusion would normally be drawn only for countries that have an Additional Protocol in force. Iran ceased its implementation of the Additional Protocol in 2006, and also ceased all other cooperation with the IAEA
British Politics
In the play's setting in 2011, Britain was led by the coalition government of David Cameron's Conservatives and Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats.
A series of riots took place between 6 and 11 August 2011 in cities and towns across England, which saw looting and arson, as well as mass deployment of police. Followed the shooting of Mark Duggan by police.
From 8 to 11 August, other towns and cities in England faced what was described by the media as "copycat violence", with social media playing a role