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Park Theatre and Stop The War Coalition present
Myths of War
Mark Rylance, Kika Markham and friends interpret the work of Howard Zinn, Erich Maria Remarque and more. Can we take a fresh view of history in order to end the wars of today?
Mark Rylance brings to the London stage - Howard Zinn’s Three Holy Wars. Kika Markham reads from Remarque's The Road Back.
Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, and famed anti war activist who wrote more than twenty books about the Civil Rights Movement, US labor history and the stupidity of war.
Erich Maria Remarque was a novelist and screen writer famous amongst other things for the classic anti war novel All Quiet on the Western Front about soldiers' experience of World War One.
Mark Rylance has been an actor since 1976. He is best known for his artistic direction of Shakespeare's Globe and for playing Rooster Byron in Jerusalem, Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall, the BFG in The BFG and Colonel Abel in Bridge of Spies.
Kika Markahm has recently returned from a US and Uk tour of Caryl Churchill’s powerful new play Escaped Alone . She is a patron of Stop the War.
"I am always looking for good reasons to challenge the assumption that war is inevitable and necessary in a world full of actual and potential conflict. Howard Zinn provides one of the greatest speeches I have read about this question of "Just" war in his "Three Holy Wars". With wit and history he tackles the perceived effectiveness of violent resolution of conflict in three sacrosanct wars. I wanted to speak it again for people to hear as Mr. Zinn was a famous orator in his time. I am delighted to be doing so in support of Stop the War who continue to express the hope and reason that Britain will develop peaceful tools of conflict resolution and move away from the inflammatory and ultimately counter-productive practices of violent resolution of conflict" Mark Rylance
“Hope can only come if you have some historical perspective” Howard Zinn
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