Correios Scandal: Musical Make Good ‘shows the heartache’

Seeing actors act out some of the things he told the playwright was “cathartic,” he said.

“When I went to watch the rehearsals, I was a little – dubious is the wrong word – but a little interested in seeing how a musical would work with this,” he said.

“We’ve seen a previous play and obviously we’ve seen the drama on ITV, and you think, well, how is this going to be handled?

“One thing this will do that the TV drama didn’t do, with the singing, is it will portray that inner agony, which really comes through.”

Another play on the subject, called Glitch, premiered at Reading in June.

In January, Mr Bates vs the Post Office was watched by 10 million people and won awards from the Royal Television Society, the National Television Awards and the Broadcasting Press Guild.

It also put the issue on the front pages and at the top of the political agenda, with the former government announcing legislation to overturn the convictions in February.

“I think I got to a place where I thought the drama wasn’t having that kind of impact anymore,” O’Hare said.

“But actually, they really had an impact. They really changed the conversation in the House of Commons. This drama impacted the law and was very encouraging. But I also knew we were doing something very different.

“In a town hall with a community choir, the experience involves you and it’s not about revealing things. It’s really about trying to heal things and trying to reconnect all of us to history, and reconnect all of us to each other. “

Make Good is on tour until December 1st.