Inspired by Ian Jack's book The Crash That Stopped Britain ISBN 9781862074682, the play is a piece of verbatim theatre based on numerous interviews, by the actors themselves, of the people involved.
[1] Collation and editing, with a little linking narration added, allowed the quotations to take the form of drama: Why aren't people angry?
And they aren't angry.Actor Lloyd Hutchison of Out of Joint, the original acting company, describes Hare's contribution thus: "He puts in very, very little bridging material.
One character is author Nina Bawden, who was badly injured in the Potters Bar crash in which her husband Austen Kark was killed.
[3] In September 2019 a "site specific" production, directed by Alexander Lass, was mounted in the Vaults Theatre, beneath the tracks of London Waterloo station.