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The Changeling post-show video and photos: Who’s mad here? All of us!

By |2023-11-17T16:38:47+00:0012 October 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

In Lazarus Theatre's new reimagining of Jacobean drama The Changeling, adapter/director Ricky Dukes has taken his usual scalpel to the original text. In this case, losing the entire subplot set in an asylum.

Am I Irish Yet? post-show video and photos: Irishness is Ireland’s greatest export ☘️

By |2023-10-09T16:08:26+01:0027 September 2023|Tags: , , , |

Dr Theatre came to the rescue at the White Bear Theatre for the London run of Am I Irish Yet?, the acclaimed one-woman show written and performed by Kate Kerrigan

SHEWOLVES post-show video and photos: Can theatre for young people make real change?

By |2023-08-22T12:45:09+01:0028 June 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Teens were involved at every stage of the development of coming-of-age comedy SHEWOLVES. That was our jumping-off point for a wider discussion about theatre for, with and about young people.

One Who Wants to Cross post-show video and photos: How is the truth about migrants misrepresented?

By |2023-02-22T15:34:42+00:009 February 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

A note in the programme for One Who Wants to Cross cites a sobering statistic: according to the 2020 IOM World Migration Report, the number of international migrants, as of June 2019, had reached almost 272 million.

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.

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?

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.

A Single Man post-show video and photos: Can you die of a broken heart?

By |2023-02-27T12:08:08+00:0027 October 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

Cinemagoers know A Single Man from the 2009 film starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Troupe Theatre's new adaptation strips the story back to its essence and the beautiful language of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel.

The Lesson: If knowledge is power, does ignorance kill?

By |2022-07-23T15:15:20+01:0019 July 2022|Tags: , , , |

How do you cope in a world gone mad? That seems to me to be the central question in two of Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco's one-act plays, The Lesson and The Chairs, written in the aftermath of the Second World War

Operation Mincemeat: Oh my god, this World War II escapade actually happened?

By |2022-02-13T23:27:43+00:0013 February 2022|Tags: , , , , |

I have a sneaking suspicion that we have not seen the last of this little musical gem, which is - incredibly - inspired by a real-life World War II espionage episode demonstrating British pluck and eccentricity in spades. 
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