Hampstead theatre, LondonOn 3 April 2011 Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing airport. Then began a Kafkaesque nightmare: 81 days in detention without trial; accused of being a subversive, a conman and a pervert. All this, and more, emerges to compelling effect in this urgent play by Howard Brenton, based on Ai Weiwei's own account, as recorded in Barnaby Martin's book Hanging Man. The idea of turning th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on April 20, 2013