Pushing the limits, setting the limits

After Unlimited Theatre’s award-winning show Static, which explored the interface between conflicts, the media and ‘normal everyday life’ outside war zones, continued to tour after the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe, writer Chris Thorpe realised the depth – and potential – of the subject matter. ‘It [Static] went down really well, and people just kept asking us to do it,’ he recalls. However, as Thorpe continued to dig up stories from conflicts, he decided he was going to have to impose a limit on himself or he’d just never stop writing about it.