“Verbatim Theatre” emerged within the UK as an innovative and socially-aware theatrical form which utilizes original interview or spoken material in the creation of new performance work, often with the intention of making a specific social or political statement. “Verbatim Theatre” is a form of “Documentary Theatre” which uses research material and data to generate the script. This type of approach seeks to be very faithful to the source interview material, prompting interesting questions for the creative process. Do the performers create their own characters from the interview material as they would if they were acting in a conventionally scripted piece? Or do they attempt to mimic the speaker, even right down to speech patterns and pauses for breath, in an attempt at a kind of absolute “truthfulness”. The results of such an approach can be very powerful, if done well.