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Woodhill (Playscript)

Matt Woodhead

A true story about the crisis facing prisons in Britain today, told with haunting poetry by the award-winning verbatim theatre company LUNG.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571388516
Date Published
03.08.2023
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Summary

I dance in the horror of grief.

Three men at Woodhill prison are dead. Their families demand answers. This is a call to arms about the crisis facing prisons.

In their own words, lyrically told, three families investigate what happened to their boys and shine a light on the hidden story of HMP Woodhill. What they discover is so haunting, it turns their world upside down.

An explosive true story by multi-award-winning LUNG, Woodhill opened at The North Wall, Oxford, in July 2023.

Winner: Sit-Up Award for outstanding social impact
Winner: Lustrum Award

Critic Reviews

[An] astonishing portrait of Britain's failing prison system . . . the ambitious form for this urgent material honours the dead and those who fight for change.

Guardian
Critic Reviews

Heart-rending.

The Scotsman
Critic Reviews

Blazing energy and righteous fury . . . This is an astonishingly powerful, urgent piece of theatre, one that stares unflinchingly at families’ grief and official disregard, and demands better.

Arts Desk
Critic Reviews

LUNG is one of the most important documentary drama companies in Britain . . . This thoughtful and compassionate account of a terrible system of injustice is necessary [and] important.

British Theatre Guide
Critic Reviews

Every show [by LUNG] has furthered the form of verbatim theatre. But their latest piece of work, Woodhill, is a massive leap forward, and a dazzling one . . . It’s a deeply elegant piece of theatre [that] shows a company finding a new, extraordinary way of doing justice to injustice.

Evening Standard