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At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. At 2.20am the following morning, the ship sank. 1,517 people died.

In response to the disaster the British Government ordered an immediate inquiry and Lord Mersey was appointed commissioner. The British Wreck Commissioner''s Inquiry sat from 2 May to 3 July 1912. It took testimony from 97 witnesses.

Full of intrigue, bravery and human frailty, Owen McCafferty''s Titanic retells the survivors'' stories, using dialogue taken word-for-word from the hundred-year-old accounts. The play premiered in April 2012 as the inaugural production of the MAC, Belfast.

Titanic Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioners Inquiry 1912

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 5/3/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780571295081, 978-0571295081
      ISBN10: 0571295088

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      At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. At 2.20am the following morning, the ship sank. 1,517 people died.

      In response to the disaster the British Government ordered an immediate inquiry and Lord Mersey was appointed commissioner. The British Wreck Commissioner''s Inquiry sat from 2 May to 3 July 1912. It took testimony from 97 witnesses.

      Full of intrigue, bravery and human frailty, Owen McCafferty''s Titanic retells the survivors'' stories, using dialogue taken word-for-word from the hundred-year-old accounts. The play premiered in April 2012 as the inaugural production of the MAC, Belfast.

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