Now here is an event you would not get to witness everyday. Going by a recent news item in Guardian, a London based theatre is contemplating putting up six plays based on the recent phone hacking scandal at the Theatre503.

Theatre503 is well known for the fresh and newly written presentation that it brings. These plays will be showcased under a collective title – ‘Hacked.’ Each one will present a story based on the messages collected from the hacked mobile phone handsets.

To steer clear from any controversy, the phones have been procured from willing volunteers, ready to share their voicemails knowing that the data will be forwarded to six playwrights for penning stories based on it. The volunteers have agreed to not press for any deletions or censorship of the messages. Every piece of information will be up for use, literally.

As expressed by Derek Bond, the associate director at Theater503, they were apprehensive about the idea of staging these plays inspired directly from the hacking scandal. Perhaps, a different theatre would have done it in the future, that too taking a verbatim, courtroom approach. However, they wanted to actually go to the roots of people’s outrage. It was not just celebrities, but missing teenagers, grieving parents and almost everyone who was affected. What if it was you?

The volunteers’ names will be kept a secret, even to the playwrights. All the names will be scrambled before handing over the data. On the creative front, the writers have been instructed to not curb their imagination in any way. They must not allow the ‘truth’ to come in the way of a great story.