A British Subject

Multi-award-winning director Hannah Eidinow charts the story of how British journalist Don Mackay gained access to the death row cell of Mirza Tihar Hussein, a British man released in 2006 after serving 18 years in a Pakistani jail. Hussein was jailed for the murder of a taxi driver in 1968, but always maintained that he had acted in self-defence, and that the death was an accident.

Mackay was the only journalist who was able to interview Mirza during nearly two decades on death row. Eidinow's production relates how Mackay soon formed a bond with the young man from Leeds – leading him to devote himself to Mirza’s case, and ultimately proving his innocence. Originally written for radio but coming to the stage here for the first time, A British Subject stars Tom Cotcher and Mackay’s real-life wife, Nichola McAulffie.