Alecky Blythe, a playwright specialising in verbatim theatre, wrote London Road for the 2011 National Theatre production, later adapting it for the 2015 film. The text, taken from real-life accounts, follows the impact felt by the Ipswich community after a string of murders in 2006.
Alecky discusses how she had to be persuaded to look into the story to begin with, and explains the intricacies of honouring the narrative necessities of both truth and storytelling.
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