‘Jaw-dropping’ play based on Pelicot rape trial comes to London for one night
‘Act of witnessing’: the play is based on the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gisèle Pelicot. Photograph: Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPAView image in fullscreen‘Act of witnessing’: the play is based on the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gisèle Pelicot. This autumn, it is coming to London County Hall, the home of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution.“I saw it in French originally – all four hours of it.
- ▪‘Act of witnessing’: the play is based on the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gisèle Pelicot.
- ▪Photograph: Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPAView image in fullscreen‘Act of witnessing’: the play is based on the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gisèle Pelicot.
- ▪This autumn, it is coming to London County Hall, the home of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution.“I saw it in French originally – all four hours of it.
The Guardian — UK publishes from United Kingdom and files mainly under news. We currently carry 551 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | The Guardian — UK |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/29/jaw-dropping-play-based-on-pelicot-trial-comes-to-london-for-one-night |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:00:56 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T07:09:54.687Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-29T07:09:54.687Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | yjGVEIaJ-fDa · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
‘Act of witnessing’: the play is based on the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gisèle Pelicot. Photograph: Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPAView image in fullscreen‘Act of witnessing’: the play is based on the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gisèle Pelicot. Photograph: Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPAGisèle Pelicot‘Jaw-dropping’ play based on Pelicot rape trial comes to London for one nightFour-hour production featuring star-studded cast will be performed at London County Hall Helena HortonTue 29 Sep 2026 03.00 EDTLast modified on Tue 29 Sep 2026 03.02 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleA play based on the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gisèle Pelicot will come to London for one night only this November – and promises to feature a star-studded cast.The four-hour production of The…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at The Guardian — UK.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from The Guardian — UK
