Six years have passed since the Grenfell Tower fire. Yet until justice is served and legislation passed, the survivors, the bereaved and the wider North Kensington community can have little peace. This tragedy in which 72 people died continues to dominate so many lives, just as the wreckage of the tower still dominates the skyline.
Popular culture has been trying to get to grips with the enormity of the tragedy, which has come to be seen as powerfully emblematic of the failures of austerity and the dangers of deregulation.
A new verbatim play,, created from interviews by Gillian Slovo and directed by Phyllida Lloyd and Anthony Simpson-Pike is opening at the National Theatre. We went to its Southbank headquarters to ask Lloyd and Simpson-Pike about the responsibility of taking on the story of Grenfell, and how theatre can
