Grenfell: System Failure
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Grenfell: System Failure
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About the Show

A verbatim drama asking the vital questions raised after the 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster.

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Critic Reviews (8)

BroadwayWorld
February 24th, 2023
For a previous production

"I certainly feel like I was there ... this is great theatre as an event."
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The London Evening Standard
February 24th, 2023
For a previous production

"It feels real, and the unvarnished testimony is horrifically compelling."
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The Stage (UK)
February 24th, 2023
For a previous production

“The piece has a stately, subdued power, treating its subject with the gravity it self-evidently deserves, without feeling exploitative.”
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The Times (UK)
February 24th, 2023
For a previous production

“ ‘Grenfell: System Failure’ is the latest in a series of political plays that are nothing less than a seismograph of our times.”
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The Guardian (UK)
February 24th, 2023
For a previous production

“Writer Richard Norton-Taylor and director Nicolas Kent’s almost anti-theatrical play uses residents’ testimonies and gives the bereaved a much-needed voice”
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The Arts Desk
February 25th, 2023
For a previous production

“ ‘System Failure’ is an extraordinary piece of theatre which will hopefully help to ensure no community has to suffer such horrors again.”
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The Telegraph (UK)
February 24th, 2023
For a previous production

"It is a theatrical experience whose political pertinence makes it totally transcend the realm of entertainment, highlighting with urgent clarity the structural failings of the modern British state. "
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Time Out London
February 24th, 2023
For a previous production

“Where ‘Value Engineering’ invoked righteous anger, ‘System Failure’ is just relentlessly depressing...Some fine performances do stand out, but they can’t do much with the grim pall that this work casts.”      
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