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

By |2023-10-12T00:41:23+01:0027 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?

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.

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

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

By |2022-03-23T15:16:04+00:0016 February 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

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). 

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon

By |2022-01-27T23:14:28+00:0015 February 2022|Tags: , , , , |

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, the sell-out solo show written and performed by Rosie Day that also spawned the non-fiction guide of the same name, returns to London for a limited run at Southwark Playhouse. 

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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