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Corruption’s Heroes Are Not Serious People
Murdoch’s phone-hacking scandal, recounted by thinly drawn archetypes.
Rogers is so busy making sure we know where we are (“10 Downing Street,” “Gandhi’s Indian Restaurant,” “Mosely Mews House” read a cortège of projections) and who’s talking (characters are constantly using each others’ full names, even for their spouses), that he never really invests in who these people are. She’s our Big Bad, anointed by Daddy Murdoch, who hovers over the play rather than appearing in it, and it’s on her watch as CEO of News International that the crimes Watson and co. are specifically targeting were committed. In the early 2000s, reporters for one of her papers, News of the World, hacked into thousands of phones, from those of celebrities and members of the royal family to those of regular citizens, including victims of the 2005 London bombings and a murdered 13-year-old girl named Milly Dowler.
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