ISBN: 0571249736 9780571249732

Category: Drama / General

Page count: 134

<p>An international group of observers arrives in a West African country to oversee and rubber stamp its first democratic election. New voters queue in their thousands, but a senior member of the observation team finds herself both horrified by the president's suppressive tactics and, for once, in a position to do something about it.<br> <br> Yet as violence on the streets escalates and the country enters freefall, an increasingly angry young translator forces this well-meaning outsider to confront the impact of her intervention.<br> <br> <i>People walked for six miles to vote. I've been doing this job for twelve years and I'm telling you that for the first time in what feels like a lifetime we can</i> <i>do something</i> <i>real here.</i><br> <br> <i>The Observer</i> by Matt Charman premiered at the National Theatre, London, in May 2009.</p>