Hampstead Theatre, LondonHoward Brenton's most recent play, 55 Days, dealt with the imprisonment, trial and execution of Charles I. His new one could easily be called 81 Days since it covers the detention, interrogation and eventual release of the conceptual artist, Ai Weiwei, by the Chinese government in 2011.Based on a book by Barnaby Martin, it is an eloquent piece of quasi-documentary theatre that raises any num…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PM on April 17, 2013