Stage2 Youth Theatre

This acclaimed eulogy to the thousands of victims of 9/11 sums up the horror and lasting human damage of that day.

Berkoff recasts the terrorist strike as a procession of powerful and resonant images – a window cleaner wipes the eyes of the World Trade Centre – the better to see its impending doom.

The 100 verses of this epic poem were first performed by the author – regarded by many as the world’s greatest living theatre practitioner – as a solo work in progress at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2002, with staff and members of Stage2 in the audience.

It was then premiered, with Berkoff’s support, by Stage2 in January 2004. Now young people from the West Midlands’ diverse cultures reprise the piece to demonstrate that, much as it was written as a response to events in the past – it is just as much a plea for the future.