Abstract Since the British EU Referendum in 2016, there has been an ongoing media narrative of division: Remain voters against Leave voters, experts against ordinary people, the capital rich against the capital poor, and metropolitan centres against regional peripheries. This article explores the way in which theatre might offer a response to the perceived failure in understanding between these entrenched positions, using the lens of place. Making an argument for an ideological and dramaturgical shift from questions of voice – which have so far dominated theatrical critical discourse in response to Brexit – to place, I explore the potential of this change in focus and scale in relation to Matt Hartley’s play Here I Belong (2016) which toured with Pentabus Theatre – a professional rural touring company from the Midlands – to rural communities across England in 2016 and 2018. It is through this contact with rural communities that I propose that theatre can make a critical intervention: telling smaller stories about local places offers a way to reconnect with such communities during this crisis of communication.

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小故事，地方地方：农村危机的地方导向方法

摘要 自 2016 年英国脱欧公投以来，媒体上一直有分裂的叙事：留欧选民反对脱欧选民，专家反对普通民众，资本富人反对资本穷人，大都市中心反对地区边缘。本文探讨了戏剧如何使用场所的视角对这些根深蒂固的立场之间的理解失败做出回应。为意识形态和戏剧性的转变从声音问题（迄今为止主导了应对英国退欧的戏剧批评话语）转变为：