Someone To Blame: Sam Hallam courtroom drama returns to the stage

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Robin Crouch, who plays Sam Hallam, with Sam's mother Wendy Cohen and actor Debra Baker. Photograph: Josh Loeb

Someone to Blame, the ‘verbatim’ play based on documentary evidence in the Sam Hallam miscarriage of justice case, returns to the stage following his recent release from jail.

Explaining the decision to put the play on again, Dominic Haddock, the King’s Head Theatre’s Executive Director, said: “The moment that Sam’s conviction was quashed, two weeks ago, we knew that we had to do something at the King’s Head Theatre. Someone To Blame was such an important project to all of us, we wanted to celebrate Sam’s release and tell the final chapter of this case.

“The cast were all wonderful and very excited about bringing it back, Tess (the writer) and David (the director) have worked incredibly hard in the last couple of weeks to update the piece, to cover the incredible events since we last performed the play in March.

“This version remains a verbatim play, every word said on stage is taken from interviews, court transcripts.”

Someone to Blame (updated)
Written by Tess Berry-Hart
Directed by David Mercatali

King’s Head Theatre
115 Upper Street
Islington
N1 1QN

Three performances:
Sunday 3 June
Monday 4 June
Tuesday 5 June

All starting at 7.15pm
All tickets £10

Available from the Kings Head Theatre
Box office: 020 7478 0160

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Someone To Blame: courtroom drama asks tough questions

 

2 Comments

  1. SHAME on meg Hillier on Sunday 3 June 2012 at 13:58

    Very interesting reading about the behaviour of local Labour MP Meg Hillier in regards to Sam Hallam.

    Since a failed appeal in 2007 Meg Hillier refused to do anything to help with the case. She once told Sam Hallam’s mother “lots of women tell me their son’s are innocent”. Meg Hillier also refused to answer other constituents’ letters about the case and even criticised the veteran justice campaigner Paul May and others for sending witness statements they had obtained to the Criminal Cases Review Commision, when according to her they should have sent them to the corrupt Met Police who they were blaming for the wrongful conviction.

    After Sam Hallam was released Meg Hillier turned up uninvited at the Hallam family home and she has also now demanded a review of police processes. She recommends more is done to help young people come forward evidence. This is exactly what many local young people did do and the police ignored them and Meg Hillier did nothing to help.



  2. pat on Sunday 3 June 2012 at 18:06

    Good to see that someone took note of the lack of help the campaign received from the mp.I was told that the last government brought in legislation that makes it harder for anyone having won their appeal to bring action against the police.



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