Mincemeat

Adrian Jackson, Farhana Sheikh

Bloomsbury Academic, 2009 - Drama - 108 pages

“You know that feeling when you wake up and you don’t know where you are, you don’t know what you’ve done, you’re not sure if you might have committed some awful crime...and sometimes it stays with you all morning...”

A narrative that crosses time and territory to find answers to questions of identity and matters of life and death, Mincemeat unravels the truths and the untruths surrounding a World War Two intelligence operation.

First performed in June 2001, Mincemeat features testimony, speculation and outright lies: don’t miss the shocking truth behind an event that changed history.

Contents

• Section 1: 23
• Section 2: 25
• Section 3: 88

About the author

Farhana Sheikh in her own words: I am: a novelist (The Red Box); a playwright (Arabian Nights, The Flood etc); a Lahori, who does not live in Lahore; a Londoner, who does not live in London; a foreigner, who writes about the West; a feminist, who writes about women: sweatshops, Scheherazade; and about men: Gilgamesh, Gulliver, Glyndwr Michael. I have: a British passport; a house; some money. I eat: enough, more than many.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mincemeat; Oberon Modern Plays
• Authors: Adrian Jackson, Farhana Sheikh
• Contributor: Cardboard Citizens (Theater group)
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2009
• ISBN: 1840029358, 9781840029352
• Length: 108 pages
• Subjects: Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama / General