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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.

Under the Kundè Tree post-show video and photos: Why was Cameroon’s war of independence hidden?

By |2023-09-04T11:07:26+01:002 June 2023|Tags: , , , |

If you know next to nothing about the Cameroonian War of Independence, you are not alone. A quick poll of the audience at my post-show Q&A for Under the Kundè Tree proved that ignorance of the 1950s conflict is the norm - and intentional.

The Walworth Farce post-show video and photos: The perfect play to open Southwark Playhouse’s new venue

By |2023-03-13T18:40:09+00:001 March 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Southwark Playhouse is my neighbourhood theatre. Over the past decade, I've chaired countless post-show talks at what was meant to be its temporary home on Newington Causeway, a three-minute walk turning left outside my front door.

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

By |2023-02-09T14:59:45+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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