`None of this should ever have happened. Somebody should have given us a different life.'<BR><BR>Two ten year olds are brought in for questioning. A third boy has gone missing. The investigator is gentle. The boys begin to talk.<BR><BR>1993. A play about the killing of James Bulger. Stripped to the bone, faithful to the facts. Unflinching.<BR><BR>Niklas Radstrom is one of Sweden's most accomplished writers, winning prestigious awards for his drama, fiction, film scripts and poetry.<BR><BR>`Outrageous and beautiful' The Gothenburg Post<BR><BR>Winner of the inaugural Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation Award 2008.<BR><BR>Monsters was first performed in English at the Arcola Theatre in May 2009.