'They're outside. Even if you write down what I tell you and you get the world to read the book, I don't think they'll be bothered. They're not frightened of the truth. What hope have we got?

Chaotic, fast, and furious, Zero is the new play from multi award-winning Theatre Absolute. Written by Chris O'Connell, the play is an explosive and anarchic stare at the ethics of torture, and the curse of censorship.

Twenty years from now, in the face of a feast of unabated nihilism, hundreds of camps have been built to torture and gain information at any cost, from those who aim to blow apart the rich pickings of a world that is wealthy beyond its dreams.
Alex, a translator at Camp Zero, seeks to tell the world of the brutal regime within the camps, and finds his life is suddenly on the line. Survival is paramount, death may be inevitable, but the truth has to be told.

Zero toured with Theatre Absolute in 2008.

FRANK MCDONOUGH is Reader in History at Liverpool John Moores University. He has written a number of successful book including The Origins of the First and Second World Wars (CUP, 1997), Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War (MUP, 1998), Hitler and Nazi Germany (CUP, 1999), Conflict, Communism and Fascism: Europe, 1890-1945, (CUP, 2000), Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany, (CUP, 2001), Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement, (CUP, 2002) and Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party, (Longman, 2004. He has also appeared as an expert on BBC TV, ITV, CHANNEL 4, CHANNEL 5, and BBC RADIO 4, ABC TV (USA) AND DSF (Germany) and has written over 20 scholarly articles and numerous articles on Nazi Germany in history magazines.