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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Grenfell fire: National Theatre play to tell survivors’ stories

People next to a Grenfell tower fire memorial wall, with the tower's tarpaulin-wrapped ruins visible in the background
A gathering at the site of the Grenfell tower fire in west London to mark the fifth anniversary of the 14 June 2017 disaster, which killed 72 people. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images

The National Theatre is to stage a verbatim play based on accounts by survivors and those bereaved by the Grenfell Tower fire almost six years ago as the centrepiece of a long-term collaborative project with the west London community.

The play, Grenfell: in the words of survivors, is the work of the novelist and playwright Gillian Slovo, who spent five years gaining the confidence of community members and recording their accounts of the disaster in north Kensington which killed 72 people.

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