Corruption is a play by J. T. Rogers, recounting (in dramatized form) the true-life phone hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in 2011, stunning the world and upending British politics.
The play set in 2011 revolves around parliament member Tom Watson who gets quickly engulfed into the News International phone hacking scandal.
Various figures involved in the story include Rebekah Brooks, James Murdoch, and Gordon Brown.
Rogers adapted the play from the 2012 book Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain by British Labour Party MP Tom Watson, and Martin Hickman, a journalist with The Independent newspaper.
The rest of the cast includes Saffron Burrows, Seth Numrich, Anthony Cochrane, and K. Todd Freeman.