'It just went on from there,' Martin continued. Kemp, who has worked as a ghostwriter for Richard Branson, revealed he had been helping Hunt write his book about the 2008 Mumbai attacks and suggested it would be a good thing for Right Lines to pick up. The idea for the play came when Smith ran across journalist Kenny Kemp, who played alongside both Smith and Martin in an Aberdeen ceilidh band. Everybody is affected by terrorist attacks in some way or another, and it was just interesting to see how this worked its way back to a small fishing port on the north-east coast of Scotland.'

'Our company’s traditional stomping ground is around the Highland and Islands, north-east and Moray, and we like to take relatively local stories and explore universal themes and with this particular project Roger got caught up in extraordinary circumstances - taking the man from Macduff and putting him on a world stage, basically. It helped him make calculated decisions that kept him alive, but on another level, the love for his family back home in Macduff sustained him and kept him positive throughout his ordeal. 'What struck us was that this ordinariness helped him to survive. 'What interested us about this story was the ordinariness of the individual, Roger Hunt, who was going about his business, albeit on an international scale, and became caught up in this major international terrorist incident,' Martin explained. Hunt’s ordeal, which he told in a book of the same title, has now been adapted for the stage by the Right Lines team of Euan Martin and Dave Smith, who saw Hunt’s story as a reflection of how terrorism can affect us all.

Hunt, who was then an executive for the Royal Bank of Scotland, hid in his hotel room for 40 hours while militants searched his Mumbai hotel for Westerners to kill. Click here to sign up to our free newsletters! Ewan Donald and James McKenzie in Right Lines' 'Be Silent or Be Killed'.ĮVENTS in Boston have given a tragic topicality to the new play from north theatre company Right Lines Productions.īe Silent or Be Killed, which receives its first public performance at Eden Court’s OneTouch Theatre in Inverness on Thursday, tells the true story of Banffshire banker Roger Hunt, who was trapped in an Indian hotel room by a terrorist attack in November 2008.

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