I came across advertisements for Ed and Norman’s “The Rapture” on Audition Oracle not long after the vain attempts of Royal Opera House leadership to take a Palestinian flag from dancer Danni Perry at the curtain call of Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Frustrated that dancers, singers and a composer widely renowned for intentionally politically charged works were being forcibly rendered “apolitical” by the leaders of our industry, I couldn’t have come across a more worthy story to be told from our perspective as Westerners in Britain — the empire that brokered Zionist colonisation of Palestine.