Theatre preview: Deep Cut, Edinburgh

Verbatim-style theatre is almost always at its best when its focus is quite narrow. Perhaps that's because sometimes it is the things that are most deeply personal that have the greatest universal resonance. I certainly hope that will be the case for Philip Ralph's play which focuses on the demand for answers from the family of private Cheryl James, who was one of four young soldiers found dead from gunshot wounds at Deepcut army barracks between 1995 and 2002. Tirelessly campaigning and facing military and government hostility, the James family have insisted on continuing to ask questions about why and how their lively, happy daughter died aged just 18. Based on first-hand testimony, Ralph's play should be a hard-hitting examination of a culture of evasion and what happens when you won't settle for anything less than the truth.