"I"m not stupid. I realised a long time ago that in order to get out of doing something, you have to do something else. If you want to avoid doing something nasty, you have to do something else you don"t like, and then that helps you get out of doing something that"s worse." A young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He"s done nothing wrong, he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat his own. Playing the Victim premiered in a Told by an Idiot/Royal Court co-production at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in August 2003 as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.