Glitch review – dynamically delivered drama about the Post Office scandal

Minghella theatre, Reading
Viewers may be well versed on the Horizon debacle, but this play offers a fresh perspective by focusing on one victim’s story

A stage set of a small Post Office branch might once have heralded a comedy of rural life or a romcom where a couple meet while sending love letters to others. Now, though, it portends a tragedy, the digital till on the counter a primed explosive.

Commissioned by the University of Reading’s law department and produced by inventive company Rabble Theatre, Zannah Kearns’s Glitch was written before Gwyneth Hughes’s gamechanging ITV four-parter Mr Bates vs The Post Office won publicity and the prospect of proper recompense for more than 700 subpostmasters falsely accused of fraud.

At the Minghella theatre, Reading, until 6 July