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Gillian Slovo's play 'The Riots' opens at the Tricycle to rave reviews
Posted by Victoria Pepe in Author News, TV, Film & Radio News
Gillian Slovo, author of Ice Road and Every Secret Thing, saw her new play 'The Riots'Â receive wonderful reviews after its first performance this week. The play is about the riots that rocked London in August, and is based on interviews with politicians, police victims and the rioters themselves.
"It asks the right questions in a way that is clear, gripping and necessary," said the Guardian's Michael Billington. While in a four-star review for the Telegraph, Charles Spencer called the drama "admirably even-handed".
As 'The Riots' opened, Slovo told Radio 4's Front Row that the script had been compiled from "56 hours of taped material".
"Every single minute of it was fascinating, almost without exception. But it was clear to me from the beginning that we needed to hear from certain people, in particular a victim of the riots – but we also needed some rioters and we needed some police. Out of those central people, I built the story of the others."
For more information, or to buy tickets, visit the Tricycle's website and let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
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