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‘It went gangbusters’: the play about the Iraq war – told through the eyes of a starving Baghdad zoo tiger
As bombs fell on the capital, a Bengal tiger was left all alone – until a US marine shot it. Rajiv Joseph explains why he brought the beast back from the dead for his Pulitzer-nominated dramaA play that dramatises the thoughts of a tiger on the bombed-…