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Hamlet post show-video and photos: What happens when you get rid of the adults?

By |2023-01-29T17:43:45+00:0027 January 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

How central are Gertrude, Claudius and Polonius to the story of Hamlet? If you remove those adult characters and the scenes that revolve around them, what are you left with?
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Life of Pi: Breathtaking puppetry and philosophy create stage magic

By |2022-12-30T20:03:21+00:0022 December 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

Not long left to catch Life of Pi in the West End. If you possibly can, I recommend you beg, borrow or steal to get one of the last remaining tickets – or plan ahead now for the five-time Olivier Award-winning play’s 2023/24 tour.
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Wickies post-show video and photos: What happened to three vanished lighthouse keepers?

By |2023-01-29T17:23:02+00:0015 December 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

One hundred and twenty-two years ago tonight, on 15 December 2000, three lighthouse keepers disappeared on the island of Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides. What happened to them?
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Triggered post-show video and photos: Spotlight on the human side of party politics

By |2022-12-15T20:28:58+00:0024 November 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

One of the few things I enjoy even more than theatre is talking politics. Chairing a post-show discussion about a brilliant new political play, written and directed by a Westminster insider, is my idea of bliss.
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Doctor Faustus post-show video and photos: What would make you sell your soul to the devil?

By |2022-11-24T23:02:21+00:0015 September 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

What might entice you to sell your soul to the devil? Fame? Riches? Immortality? World peace? A rent-free London flat? Four pints of Guinness? At my post-show Q&A for a production of Doctor Faustus, that was an irresistible question to pose to the company.
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Flashbang post-show video and photos: Celebrating life in the wake of shock and tragedy

By |2022-09-16T11:09:13+01:009 September 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

The death of Queen Elizabeth II was announced just before my arrival at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre. Like the rest of the country, the theatre staff had been braced for the sad news. So the world premiere of Proforca's Flashbang was preceded by a public address and collective silence.
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The End of the Night post-show video and photos: How should theatre tackle difficult historical subjects?

By |2022-09-09T15:00:32+01:0027 May 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

Set in the final days of World War II, new play The End of the Night centres around the true but little-known secret meeting between Norbert Masur, a Swedish Jew and volunteer member of the World Jewish Congress, and Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, the mass-murdering architect of Hitler's final solution.
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Jo & Sam Find Themselves in Woking post-show video and photos: Searching for millennial meaning in relationships

By |2022-05-27T13:05:05+01:0012 April 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

Meeting the right person and starting a new relationship is hard enough, but when you also have to do it in rhyming couplets while searching for the meaning of your life... in Woking - well, it's that much more challenging.
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Bacon post-show video and photos: Balancing on the see-saw of power in a toxic relationship

By |2022-04-12T10:37:07+01:0024 March 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

The spark of an idea for award-winning new two-hander Bacon, now in its extended world premiere season at London's Finborough Theatre, came when playwright Sophie Swithinbank, then working as a nanny, witnessed a bullying incident between two boys in a park.
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