Burning Tower review – show staged responds to Grenfell
SPID Theatre, London: Helena Thompson’s passionate and pacy drama is a celebration and defence of social housing.
‘I’d love to call time on this, the world’s worst play,” says Em, a council estate girl with an activist streak. “But my mate won’t let me hear the end of it.” It’s an audacious line to include in a show which has just been interrupted by a character arriving deliberately late, accompanied by perhaps half the audience who got lost on the way in: SPID theatre is in a community space beneath Kensal House, a council block near Grenfell Tower, in London.