CALLEY

CALLEY is a play about the Vietnam War, told through the experiences of William Calley, the only officer convicted of war crimes of the My Lai massacre in 1968, and Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defence who vainly tried to justify the ever increasing involvement and casualty figures to the public. The story unfolds through speeches, songs, interviews, courts transcripts and Calley’s own narration of his life leading up to the massacre and beyond it. The absurdity of the war is contrasted with the heartbreaking toll it takes on the men fighting it and the devastation that is wrought upon the victims of America’s military venture in South Vietnam. 

Authors: 
David Blackman