I WISH TO DIE SINGING to be Published

I Wish To Die Singing - Voices >From The Armenian Genocide received its world premiere at the Finborough Theatre in April 2015, commemorating the exact centenary of the deportations that began the Armenian Genocide. An excerpt was also performed by Centre Theatre Group and the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance in Los Angeles in April 2015.

"Who, after all, today remembers the annihilation of the Armenians?" - Adolf Hitler, 1939

I Wish To Die Singing - Voices From The Armenian Genocide is a controversial documentary drama uncovering the forgotten secrets and atrocities of a denied genocide. Following several characters through these traumatic events, the play includes eye-witness reportage, images, music, poetry from Armenia's greatest poets, and verbatim survivors testimonies from one of the greatest historical injustices of all time.

The Armenian Genocide of 1915-16 was perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish Government against the Armenians, a Christian minority in a Muslim state. Up to one and a half million people died. To this day, the Turkish government refuses to admit that genocide ever took place.

Playwright Neil McPherson is Artistic Director of the Finborough Theatre. An earlier version of I Wish to Die Singing was presented for a sold out short run at the Finborough Theatre in 2005 to mark the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, and received a staged reading at the Centre for Armenian Information and Advice, London, in 2006.