Shoot, I Didn't Mean That / The Last Days Of Mankind

A thrilling double bill that hauls the realities of WW1 into the present moment and asks what happens to life when war takes over.

Time Zone Theatre and Austrian director Pamela Schermann invited British playwrights to respond to Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind. The winning play, Shoot, I Didn't Mean That by Catriona Kerridge, will run alongside a staging of the epilogue of Kraus's epic. The resulting double-bill aims to encourage an intercultural dialogue about global conflicts.

Kerridge's dark comedy follows four women's strange and surreal downfall as they become intoxicated by the politics of The Great War. Juliet waltzes into a difficult situation at Vienna's famous flea market; two schoolgirls struggle not to giggle during a Remembrance Day service; and an interpreter loses her voice.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England and by the Austrian Cultural Forum London.