A THEATRE company in Reading is bringing the experiences of a Berkshire woman amid the Horizon Post Office scandal to the stage this summer.
RABBLE Theatre is exploring the life of Pam Stubbs, a sub-postmistress at the Barkham Post Office for more than two decades in a new production, Glitch.
Tickets are now on sale ahead of the show’s run, which begins in June and runs until early July at the Minghella Theatre.
Specially commissioned by the University of Reading, the show follows the events surrounding the scandal which saw Post Office workers falsely accused and prosecuted for discrepancies caused by a computer system.
Thousands of postmasters across the organisation were pursued for shortfalls, and more than 900 were convicted, for theft in what PM Rishi Sunak described as one of the “greatest miscarriages of justice” in British legal history.
Glitch sees a first-hand account of the scandal, written by Zannah Kearns and directed by Gemma Colclough and Gareth Taylor.
Dramaturg Beth Flintoff is overseeing the production, with music from Benjamin Hudson, design by Caitlin Abbot, and lighting by Oliver Welsh.
The production was incepted when the University of Reading’s School of Law proposed developing a work based on the Horizon Post Office scandal, and there are plans to follow the limited run with a full national tour next year.
Glitch is showing at the Minghella Theatre, University of Reading, from Thursday, June 27, to Saturday, July 6.
Tickets are now on sale via: rabbletheatre.com/glitch
