The Reckoning: Truth-Telling Theatre

Dash Arts Podcast

“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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