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Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo review " wild horror and sharp-toothed comedy from the Iraq war

by Arifa Akbar

Young Vic theatre, London Rajiv Joseph's tale of a captive animal that returns from the dead after the 2003 invasion is bracingly unconventional There is an exciting wildness to the European premiere of Rajiv Joseph's surreal black comedy about the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. Firstly, an animal is played on stage, a tiger shot in a Baghdad zoo that returns from the dead to haunt the US marine who pulled the trigger…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36am on December 10, 2025