Robert Hewison, The Sunday Times Sun, 2006-04-16 01:00

Whether victims or potential victors, the world they inherit is of their elders’ making. That responsibility was powerfully underlined in Al Smith’s intelligent Enola, written and directed for the University of Edinburgh’s Kandinsky company. Imaginatively mixing fact and fiction, science and art, Smith questions the morality of the atomic bomb by exploring the responsibilities of the scientists who created it, and the ordinary mortals who built the aircraft that delivered it. Smith won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, and Ellie Bruce a judges’ commendation for her performance as Enola Gay, a daughter forever labelled by sharing her name with the plane that carried that world-shattering bomb.