The Reckoning: Truth-Telling Theatre

“All good art is an attempt to wrestle with truth”


In the fourth episode on the journey towards our production, The
Reckoning, Dash’s Artistic Director, Josephine Burton is in
conversation with Author and Playwright Gillian Slovo discussing
the power of theatre and the responsibilities involved in
bringing real people’s stories to the stage. As Dash Arts
prepares to produce a theatre production rooted in the
testimonies of survivors of the war in Ukraine, Josephine
searches for insights into how to create powerful drama whilst
doing justice to the people who have lent their stories. Gillian
shares her experiences of listening to the survivors of the
Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 and looking after their words as she
crafted the verbatim drama, Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors
for the National Theatre. 


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If you haven’t already, you can hear the other episodes of this
podcast mini-series on The Reckoning where we explore our process
towards production, speaking to author and journalist Peter
Pomerantsev on why he shared the testimonies with Dash as well as
hear from Rory Finnin, Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the
University of Cambridge.


In the podcast, we hear from:


Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 


Gillian Slovo - Author and Playwright


Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi


Thank you to Jonathan Levy and Gabrielle Rifkind for hosting our
live conversation.


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