A CONTROVERSIAL play about the abduction and murder of James Bulger opened at a London theatre last night.
Monsters, by Swedish writer Niklas Radstrom, has already won the 2008 Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation Award.
According to the website for the Arcola Theatre – which is staging the production – the play is “stripped to the bone, faithful to the facts” and “unflinching.”
It adds: “Monsters looks beyond the media gaze to distil our individual and collective responsi-bilities in a seemingly incomprehensible tragedy.”
James Bulger was just two when he was murdered by 10-year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in February, 1993. The toddler was abducted from Bootle’s New Strand shopping centre and killed on a railway line.
His killers were released on life licences in 2001 and given secret identities.
