57 Walton Street
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6EA
UK
A film screening followed by a panel discussion with Nicola Leveringhaus and Peter Burt. They will be exploring the question of whether Britain needs its own nuclear weapons arsenal.
A chilling war game between a group of government officials exposes the fragility of our everyday life and those who govern it.
Written by Jack Thorne, directed by Tom Harper and starring Adeel Akhtar, Nicholas Burns, Ben Chaplin, Shaun Evans, Kerry Fox, Phoebe Fox, Sophie Okonedo, Antony Sher and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, WAR BOOK takes place over three days as nine civil servants gather to take part in a policy shaping scenario. They are there to take decisions on Britain’s reaction to an international nuclear attack. Only two participants know the truth – that the country is secretly facing a real nuclear threat, and that their theoretical responses may become reality sooner than they can know.
At first the participants are casual, playing out the scenario against a backdrop of their own petty squabbles and personal ambitions, but as the scenario escalates and the group begins to address the breakdown of civil order, the reality that they are deciding our futures dawns. When personal politics crash irrevocably into the room, each is forced to look closely at what they really believe, and how much their decisions are actually worth.
Click here to view the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_vr6KALYrY
Tickets are £10.00 for adults, £9.00 for students/concessions and £8.00 for Picturehouse members.
Speaker information:
Nicola Leveringhaus commenced a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship based at ELAC. Her research project is titled ‘China and Nuclear.
Peter Burt is the Research Manager for Nuclear Information Service, a not-for-profit independent information service, which works to promote public awareness and foster debate on nuclear disarmament and related safety and environmental issues.
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