Public Interest
Are we really all innocent until proven guilty?
Part music video, part political theatre, Public Interest was an immersive large-scale show that asked how we challenge the narratives spun about working-class young people.
Public Interest explored real cases of Joint Enterprise to confront racist and classist discrimination within the justice system. A cast of rappers and DJs performed drill, grime, and bassline – the music weaponised against them – to tell their stories on their own terms.
Staged in a warehouse basement with video projection, cinematic lighting, and a bassline you could feel in your bones, Public Interest was created in partnership with JENGbA (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association) as a call to action.
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“What could have been a preachy polemic is made powerfully persuasive in an engaging production that puts the audience at the heart of the action. The whole cast excels” The Stage