The idea for the play Humane began when its writer Polly Creed was still at school. Her best friend – theatre designer Daisy Blower – told her about her grandmother's involvement in protests against live animal exports in the town of Brightlingsea, Essex in 1995, close to where the girls were growing up. The play is therefore based on real events, and real people, but resists describing itself as ‘verbatim’.
During research, Creed was struck by how the campaign brought together such a disparate group, most of whom had never protested anything before. Her interviews uncovered still-high emotions regarding the overly aggressive policing in breaking up the blockades formed to stop the lorries carrying the animals, and unexpected racism within protestors.
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