THE official story behind the bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie in 1988 is controversially challenged in this new play at the Library Theatre.

Lockerbie 103 deals with the growing concern that the man currently in jail for the attack was not the right one and that there was a high-powered conspiracy at work.

The play is set in a small B&B in Dumfries and Galloway and follows the impact a young American backpacker has on a variety of characters, each deeply affected by the tragedy.

The American comes up against Ali who claims to be a CIA informer and is writing a book about the truth behind the attack.

But he also meets a local journalist and a farmer who found luggage from the flight on the night and slowly a chain of events begin to emerge.

Using an imaginative set design the play transports us around the world from the Dutch court that held the trial to an American radio station; judges' chambers to a Libyan town.

The play also expertly interweaves the problems that the small Scottish town now has to live with, once a non-descript place now a place connected with death.

The production has prompted a great deal of criticism in the short time it has been playing around the UK, often by people who have yet to see it.

But it is creatively delivered with an almost 'whodunit' feel entrapping the audience in its controversial claims.

Library Theatre, Manchester until Saturday. Tel: 0161 236 7110.