You may think a play based on the inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings might not make searing-hot theatre, but the boss of the Tricycle Theatre begs to differ, writes Richard Hodkinson

Nicolas Kent is not a man one could imagine settling back to enjoy the latest Ben Elton-penned musical in the West End. The artistic director of Kilburn’s Tricycle Theatre sees the stage as being right at the heart of British social and political life, not as a mere light entertainment adjunct.
His seventh collaboration with the Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor, Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, has just opened at the Tricycle.
It promises to provide sleepless nights for the British armed forces and the government, just as a previous production based around the Stephen Lawrence inquiry proved uncomfortable viewing for the Metropolitan Police.