BÉZNĂ theatre’s 90-minute production examines how Western news reports on the war in Gaza, where foreign journalists are barred from independent access, and how those accounts compare with footage shared directly from the region. It centres Palestinian testimony and challenges the framing of events, but the reviewer says its ambition is undercut by a flood of information and frequent shifts in style.

The four performers combine satire, songs, historical context, lectures and dramatised accounts, including reports of a civilian massacre and the death of a Palestinian man with Down’s syndrome. Projected facts and figures appear too briefly to take in, while some scenes are hard to follow and the tone shifts between grief, comedy and anger. The reviewer finds the production powerful in moments but disjointed overall, and hopes it will develop greater clarity; it is playing at New Diorama Theatre in London until 10 October.