An urgent immersive show on youth culture by Common/Wealth, Bradford’s political theatre pioneers.
Are we really all innocent until proven guilty?
Public Interest is an ambitious large-scale show that asks how we challenge the narratives spun about young working-class people in 2025. Part music video, part-political theatre, the show is created for Bradford 2025 by Common/Wealth and premieres at Loading Bay, a new pop-up venue in the heart of the city.
Public Interest confronts racist and classist discrimination within the justice system by exploring real-life cases of Joint Enterprise, a legal doctrine used to charge and convict people who may have played no direct part in a crime. A cast of rappers and DJs tell their stories on their own terms using drill, grime and bassline – the very music so often weaponised against them.
Staged in the basement of a disused city-centre warehouse, and featuring projections, cinematic lighting and basslines you can feel in your bones, Public Interest is a vital and vivid call to action. Are you listening?
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Commissioned by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.
Lead image: © Daniel Johnson Gray
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