Di White, 25, is a member of JustSpeak, a group of young agitating for change in the criminal justice system.
JustSpeak is trying to use different methods to get that message out – not just tweeting and sending press releases.
They’re re-staging two pivotal New Zealand theatre works in conjunction with Last Tapes theatre company.
Verbatim, devised in 1993 after interviews in New Zealand prisons, is a one-woman, five-character play, first performed by Miranda Harcourt. Written by her and William Brandt, it tells the story of a murder through the eyes of the killer, his family, and his victim’s family.
The second, Portrait, examines a sexual assault and murder, with the victim’s parents, and the offender and his wife.
Neither are easy to watch, and there is discussion of violence in this interview.
Megan Whelan asked Di how the collaboration came about.