The Sin Eater

Theatre Play

(2005 - Arandura Press)

The play centres around memories of interviews and material from interviews – some (semi) fabricated, some factual. The factual accounts have not been attributed and the torturer remains nameless deliberately to emphasise how he can be any one of us, that his monstrous capacity does not give him a monstrous appearance and that he could easily be the person standing next to us waiting for the bus or sitting next to us in a café, a neighbour, someone we work beside, even a member of our own family. 

Described by the press as 'harrowing', 'a shocking venture into a world we would prefer to pretend does not exist', 'disturbing and compassionate, we are left looking inwards instead of outwards', 'a perspective too often ignored', 'brave and bold', 'Hartley dares to go where other writers wouldn't', 'a sensitive piece of writing