All the Rage: guerrilla theatre from the Epstein files

When the Jeffrey Epstein story dominated headlines earlier this year, a group of female playwrights resolved to refocus the conversation on victims rather than perpetrators. Rebecca Lenkiewicz put out a call on WhatsApp—“Is anyone else enraged about the Epstein files and how it’s all about the men and the money?”—and 45 writers answered.

What began as a grassroots reading quickly escalated into a larger project. All the Rage brings together more than 80 female and non-binary writers and will unfold across 15 spaces in a repurposed office block in the City of London. Lucy Morrison describes it as “It really is guerrilla theatre, where art meets activism.” The piece is presented in two halves: visitors first wander small rooms of text, images and installations, then gather for a 50-minute theatre work Lenkiewicz is assembling for nine actors, all but one of them female.

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