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Woodhill (Playscript)
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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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.
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Heart-rending.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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