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Theatre preview (UK): The Bomb

Could you face the man who killed your father? Is reconciliation and forgiveness possible? Those are the questions raised in Kevin Dyer's powerful play. Brighton bomber Patrick Magee was given multiple life sentences, but released under the Good Friday agreement in 1999. Subsequently he has met the daughter of one of his victims. This is their story, a painful and explosive account of two people trying to recover the humanity that was destroyed more than two decades ago.

Read entire article at Guardian (UK)