Alexi Kaye Campbell: 'I knew I had to write a play about Greece'
Campbell's new National Theatre play was inspired by the despair, rage and determination of Greek anti-austerity protesters, but also by the discovery that the history of his family echoed that of his troubled countryI was just a year old when the tanks rolled ominously down the streets of Athens one morning, announcing the beginning of one of Greece's darkest chapters. At dawn on 21 April 1967, after a period of pol…