Play exposing Post Office scandal is coming to Doncaster
A hard-hitting play exposing the Post Office scandal is coming to Doncaster.
Glitch - The True Story of the Post Office Scandal will be staged at Cast on February 25, 2026.
The scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved the Post Office pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for apparent financial shortfalls caused by faults in Horizon, an accounting software system developed by Fujitsu.
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were wrongfully convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions carried out by the Post Office.
Other subpostmasters were prosecuted but not convicted, forced to cover illusory shortfalls caused by Horizon with their own money, or had their contracts terminated.
The court cases, criminal convictions, imprisonments, loss of livelihoods and homes, debts, and bankruptcies led to stress, illness and family breakdowns, and were linked to at least thirteen suicides.
In 2024, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the scandal as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history.
The play focuses on Pam Stubbs, sub-postmistress of Barkham Post Office for over twenty years, respected and loved by the community.
But when unexplained discrepancies start appearing in her accounts, Pam soon finds herself at the heart of the biggest miscarriage of justice in English legal history.
"Glitch" is an inspirational true story, based on the experiences of Pam and her colleagues.
The play was created with sub-postmistresses and masters affected by the events, key members of the legal process and commissioned by the University of Reading.