TERRORISM, suggests actor/writer Robin Soans, is about the biggest thing in everyone's life today. "The top three stories in the news each night are usually about terrorism. But it is something about which we know very little."
He hopes at least a little will be explained in his new theatre production Talking to Terrorists in which those involved tell their own stories.
The play, a joint production between London's Royal Court Theatre and Out of Joint, is touring the country and arrives at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre for a five night run from June 21.
Soans put it together by the simple method suggested in the title - he went to talk to terrorists.
It is a new form of theatre - so-called Verbatim Theatre - which has become very popular.
Real people's stories are simply told on stage using verbatim quotes.
Recent trials, political stories and public inquiries have all been turned into theatrical events using real quotes.
And Soans has done a few of them himself.
The stage and film actor (he has been in 80 different theatrical productions, 30 television dramas and a dozen films) first came across the new form of theatre when he appeared as an actor ten years ago in a play, Waiting Room Germany.
Written by German Klaus Pohl it told the story of recent times in Germany, Pohl having spoken to 23 people from across the West/East divide.
