‘It’s a powerful allegory’: Grenfell inquiry gets verbatim theatre treatment

After plays about Bloody Sunday and Stephen Lawrence, award-winning pair tackle deadly blaze

The scandal and tragedy of Grenfell Tower, the deadliest fire in a residential building in Britain since the blitz, is to be played out on a theatre stage in a work that its writer believes is a damning allegory of contemporary British society.

The theatre director Nicolas Kent and the journalist Richard Norton-Taylor have established an award-winning partnership for verbatim theatre, staging plays based on inquiries including into Bloody Sunday and the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3AvekqQ

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