Dramatic national events such as riots tend to attract verbatim theatre practitioners like smashed shop windows attract looters. In this new play, Alecky Blythe " who specialises in recording ordinary people and editing their words into a humane story " takes to the streets to see what people were saying during the English riots of summer 2011. The main problem at the outset is that citizens armed with new digital me…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:01PM on September 3, 2014