EDINBURGH FESTIVAL: September 11 productions

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL: September 11 productions; ITN SCOTLAND: Edinburgh: INT Steven Berkoff (Actor & playwright) rehearsing 'Requiem For Ground Zero' (epic poem about terrorist attack on New York on September 11th, 2001) SOT - Ten floors up they were, the lift ascended to heaven on that bright blue day / Alrighty TGV Berkoff standing on stage with press & technicians around MS Berkoff rehearsing for poem performance Steven Berkoff (Actor & playwright) rehearsing 'Requiem For Ground Zero' (epic poem about terrorist attack on New York on September 11th, 2001) SOT - Two silver birds but now with steely claws are slowly drifting on the endless day, waiting to tear and feast with bloody claws on the innocent unknowing human prey LMS Berkoff onstage during rehearsal Steven Berkoff (Actor & playwright) interviewed SOT - As a writer you absorb experience, you feel you have to let it out, it's like compulsion / But I thought another sacrifice would be to learn it, painful as that is, hour after hour, day after day, month after month CUTAWAY Berkoff miming cutting his throat during rehearsal Cast of play 'Project 9/11' (Playwrights Horizons Theatre School) rehearsing on stage (2 SHOTS) Actor performing in 'Project 9/11' rehearsal SOT - And now the first tower falls, straight down, my breath leaves with it Actors rehearsing play about terrorist attack on WTC towers EXT i/c INT TGV Cast of dance piece 'Fallen' (Gravity and fabrikCompanie) rehearsing onstage GVs Performers hanging from harnesses during rehearsal (3 SHOTS) EXT Jess Curtis (Dancer/Director) interviewed SOT - What really impressed me was imagining what it must be like to stand at window with imminent death in front of you & behind you / For me art is very much place to deal with those kind of things, and theatre is important way of processing experience INT ...