Now this is something that you will not get to see every day. As reported by Guardian, a theatre group based in London is soon going to present the phone hacking scandal in the form of six different plays at the Theatre503.
The venue is popularly known for showcasing fresh and newly written acts. The plays will be staged under a collective title, ‘Hacked.’ Each play will make use of the messages retrieved from the hacked phones as basis for the plays.
Obviously, there is nothing illegal about all of this. The six phones to serve as basis will belong to volunteers who have permitted the theatre group to use their voicemails, with the knowledge that they will be forwarded to six playwrights, to be given the form of plays. The volunteers have also agreed not to delete or censor any messages in their phones. Hence, everything can be used.
Associate Director, Derek Bond at Theater503 had his doubts about an evening of back-to-back short plays on the hacking scandal. He could think of a different theatre taking a verbatim, courtroom approach in the future, but not them. They were more interested in going behind the stories and finding the actual cause behind people’s outrage. Moreover, it was not just the celebrities who were affected – it was missing teenagers, grieving parents and many more people. What if you too were one among them?
The identities of the participating volunteers will be kept anonymous, even to the playwrights, by scrambling up their names before passing on the recordings. The writers have been asked to not curb their creative freedom and not let truth come in the way of a gripping story. Familiar, isn’t it?
