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Flashbang post-show video and photos: Celebrating life in the wake of shock and tragedy

9 September 2022|

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.

The End of the Night post-show video and photos: How should theatre tackle difficult historical subjects?

27 May 2022|

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.

Jo & Sam Find Themselves in Woking post-show video and photos: Searching for millennial meaning in relationships

12 April 2022|

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.

Bacon post-show video and photos: Balancing on the see-saw of power in a toxic relationship

24 March 2022|

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.

Wildcard’s Tempest post-show video and photos: Shakespeare like you’ve never experienced it before

23 March 2022|

Wildcard Theatre promises "Shakespeare like you have never experienced it before", and they deliver in spades with this new gig-style reinvention of The Tempest in the perfect setting of the Pleasance's cabaret-configured main house.

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon post-show video and photos: What advice would you give your 13-year-old self?

16 February 2022|

Rosie Day's wonderful rollercoaster ride of a debut play Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, which she also performs, ends with the by-then 16-year-old protagonist writing a letter of advice to her younger self (and younger stepsister). 

Freud’s Last Session post-show video and photos: Do you believe in the existence of God?

26 January 2022|

Mark St Germain's play Freud's Last Session, first seen Off-Broadway in 2010 and now receiving its European premiere at London's King's Head Theatre, pits two of the 20th-century greatest thinkers, Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis, to discuss life's biggest questions, including "Does God exist?"

Empty in Angel post-show video and photos: Why are unions more important than ever in the gig economy?

21 November 2021|

Here's the brutal truth about many of our rights: we only really have them if we have the wherewithal to fight for them when they're trampled on. That's certainly the case when it comes to employment rights.

Marlowe’s Fate post-show video and photos: Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays?

12 November 2021|

More than four centuries after William Shakespeare died in 1616, aged 52 on his own birthday (23 April), questions remain about the authorship of his prodigious output - including nearly forty plays and more than 150 sonnets. 

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