To mark the 20th anniversay of the Russian Navy's loss of the Kursk submarine in August 2000, we reprint our review from 2009 of the play "Kursk" which was performed at the Young Vic Theatre
Kursk - more than a theatrical experience . Reviewed by Elayne Jude,
How are we to apprehend the last hours of the 118 souls lost aboard the submarine Kursk in August 2000?
Perhaps by steeping ourselves in the reconstructed daily lives of the crew of an (almost imaginary) British Trafalgar class submarine, on covert patrol in the Barents Sea at the same time.
