{"id":31013,"date":"2017-04-10T10:09:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=31013"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:09:28","slug":"the-radicalisation-of-bradley-manning-national-theatre-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/bradley-manning\/the-radicalisation-of-bradley-manning-national-theatre-wales.php","title":{"rendered":"The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning | National Theatre Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Today, one day before his 24th birthday, Bradley Manning will    start the process that will determine whether he'll celebrate    his next 30 birthdays behind bars. I will be watching every    minute of this case, because for the past year I have been    writing a play entitled The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning    for National Theatre Wales.  <\/p>\n<p>    I have been following Bradley's case since his arrest in May    2010. His story had a heady mix of espionage, geo-politics and    cyber-frontierism, but it wasn't until I learned of Bradley's    teenage years in Wales that my curiosity turned into    obsession.    This young soldier  who has attempted to call the president of    the US as a defence witness  knows bus timetables around    Haverfordwest. He knows the trials of schoolboy rugby, and    speaks rudimentary Welsh. Once I realised this, Bradley became    more than a news story.  <\/p>\n<p>    We had things in common. So reading accounts of his torture in    the Quantico Brig haunted me.  <\/p>\n<p>    While his treatment shocked me, his alleged actions thrilled    me. If Bradley is guilty of uploading the information to    WikiLeaks then he has courageously reminded us that not only is    finance, religion, media, manufacturing and politics    transnational, but so is our morality.  <\/p>\n<p>    At a meeting with NTW to discuss the production of another of    my plays, I could not get the young soldier out of my head, and    confessed to the theatre that I believed we were doing the    wrong play. I had to write about Manning, I told them, and they    had to produce it. (It wasn't as finger-snappy as that, of    course  I did shoe-gaze and apologise a lot.) NTW agreed, and    to my eternal gratitude we switched plays.  <\/p>\n<p>    Read the rest of Tim's Blog on the Guardian website.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltheatrewales.org\/bradleymanning\" title=\"The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning | National Theatre Wales\">The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning | National Theatre Wales<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Today, one day before his 24th birthday, Bradley Manning will start the process that will determine whether he'll celebrate his next 30 birthdays behind bars. I will be watching every minute of this case, because for the past year I have been writing a play entitled The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning for National Theatre Wales. I have been following Bradley's case since his arrest in May 2010. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bradley-manning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}