New play gives audiences the chance to vent fury over Epstein

Theatregoers will be invited to 'hurl abuse' in immersive performance that puts women's voices centre stage

- Vanessa Thorpe

Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre leaving a federal court in New York in August 2019. Below, writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

Theatregoers will be invited to “hurl abuse at a man in a suit” as they experience some of the rage and pain of survivors of the Epstein scandal at a new stage production in London this summer.

Playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz has created an immersive theatrical show that promises to give proper weight to the women's stories.

“The idea came from a collective rage around the Epstein files. Not just the horrific events and their scale, but how it has been handled,” said Lenkiewicz, the screenwriter behind She Said, the acclaimed 2022 film about the New York Times investigation into Harvey Weinstein. “We wanted to make a work centred on the female perspective and not on the men and the money.”

The site-specific performance in the City of London will allow theatregoers to move between rooms to hear different narratives. All the scenes and monologues have been written for Lenkiewicz by All the Rage, a group of 45 established writers, and revolve around a central drama staged in the middle of the space which will take up the whole floor of Theatre Deli's former office-building location in Leadenhall Street.

“The truth of all this is unfortunately stranger than fiction,” Lenkiewicz told