Darkling

Titus Halder's new play is a dramatisation – and examination of the legacy – of the worst industrial disaster in human history. In Bhopal, India on December 3 1984, a gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide factory cause devastation on an unimaginable scale, poisoning 50,000 people, killing 22,000, and inflicting generational damage as chidren born to those affected were stricken with birth defects. For the first show proper under the Bush Theatre’s new artistic regime, Matthew Xia directs an English Touring Theatre co-production that stars Linnea Berthelsen who played Kali in Stranger Things.