Residents and members of bereaved families call on BBC and National Theatre to scrap productions
The BBC and the National Theatre are facing rising hostility over two high-profile productions about the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, with survivors and bereaved family members urging both institutions to drop their plans.
Some have even threatened to disrupt BBC attempts to film near the tower for its series, Grenfell, which will dramatise the tragic events around the night of 14 June 2017 in west London, when 72 people died as a result of the blaze. Others claim the National Theatre is stealing their experiences, despite its play being based on survivors’ first-hand accounts. A petition calling on the BBC to scrap its series has so far attracted more than 50,000 signatures.
