the interrogator

Written by Dan and performed by his sister in 2005, this was a journey into the dark recesses of family history. The Interrogator was based upon the real life experiences of a close family member, daughter of an Indian orphan and Scottish World War I soldier, whose earliest memories of Britain are steeped in racism and family tragedy.

“When I was researching the play” Dan writes, “I journeyed back to London’s East End, and to the roots of my family in that part of the world. I went back to the places in which members of my family had lived and were born, in these places I heard stories of drunken neighbours, greedy landlords, and a market where you could buy dog on a stick at a very cheap price!

Somehow all these places, people and stories morphed into the tale of The Interrogator, a story in which a mysterious character struggles to piece together the scraps and fragments of a woman's life, a story of someone coming to terms with his past, a story of a perpetual murder.”