Verbatim theatre can be powerful, but care must be embedded in the process
The casting of Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry has triggered a social media backlash
The casting announcement for a verbatim play about the Grenfell Inquiry was insensitively misjudged, says Natasha Tripney – no topic should be off-limits for theatre, but well-intentioned campaigning work must not exclude the communities most affected by the issues at stake
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