AN INTERVENTION to Return at Riverside Studios

12 years after it premiered in Watford, Mike Bartlett's play An Intervention will return to the stage at Riverside Studios with Want the Moon Theatre. A two-hander about friendship, its responsibilities, and the roles it forces us to play, An Intervention, continues to be extremely timely. This new production of Bartlett's two-hander refocuses urgent themes of personal and political culpability, exploring them through the eyes of Global Majority Characters.  Performances will run Monday 11 January - Sunday 14 February.

An Intervention sees two close friends forced to reckon with taking differing positions on western intervention in the Arab World in 2003. The play is brought back to the stage by Want the Moon Theatre and JMK Award Winner, Eastern Eye Best Director and 2025 The Stage Debut (Nominee) Adam Karim. 

Adam Karim commented:  “This revival couldn't be more timely as once again Western interventions in the "Middle East" throw the world into jeopardy.

Reviving Mike's play not only reveals its grimly prophetic nature, but is remarkable because it tackles these huge events through a very human experience. It anticipates both cancel culture and the culture wars we find ourselves amidst.

I don't believe it has been staged in the UK by Global Majority artists before, and approaching this text with fresh eyes has revealed deep new layers in a relationship that is as knotty, heart wrenching & at times funny as the world events surrounding it.