Past Productions:

114 productions, 266 playwrights

A Paines Plough production

Body Count
by Les Smith

June-Aug 1987

Compelling and Deeply moving
BBC

lone woman

Synopsis

Body Count is the story of My Lai, the Vietnamese village massacred by a unit of the American army in 1968. This appalling episode shocked the American public and gave impetus to the anti-war movement.

This powerful one-woman play takes the form of an objective but horrifying account of one of the worst military atrocities in recent times. It is also a deeply moving and poetic lament for the folly and pity of war.