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Firebird post-show video and photos: Back in the USSR with a true-life forbidden love story

By |2025-02-13T13:28:05+00:0021 January 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |

On a Soviet Air Force Base in occupied Estonia in the 1970s, a conscripted private falls in love with a young maverick fighter pilot. The true-life love story that enraged Vladimir Putin now gets its stage premiere at London's King's Head Theatre.
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Belly of the Beast post-show video and photos: Do schools demand conformity?

By |2025-01-26T20:19:04+00:0015 January 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |

One of the most sobering statistics in Belly of the Beast's programme note comes from The School Report 2017: 84% of trans students, including non-binary individuals, self harmed, and 45% attempted suicide.
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Man in the Rain post-show video and photos: Theatre as therapy, Shakespeare for the soul

By |2025-01-15T22:53:33+00:0027 November 2024|Tags: , , , , |

I first met actor Tony Bell twenty years ago thanks to Propeller Theatre, the hugely successful all-male Shakespearean ensemble. He now returns to the stage in a deeply personal, self-penned solo show.
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Jupiter’s Ghost post-show video and photos: What happens when the line between AI and human blurs?

By |2024-08-29T10:34:55+01:001 July 2024|Tags: , , , |

Two of the most urgent issues facing the world today - climate change and the dizzying acceleration of Artificial Intelligence - collide in Jupiter's Ghost, Tani Gill's dystopian drama with dance, which premiered at London's Cockpit Theatre.
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Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England post-show video and photos: Are all football plays really about male mental health?

By |2024-05-02T21:27:55+01:0025 April 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Remember how exciting it was when England made it to the men’s Euro 2020 final (in 2021 due to Covid). Remember the bloke who got so excited he lit his bum on fire?! His incendiary social media fame has inspired a hit stage play
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Exhibitionists post-show video and photos: A celebration of gay life where no one dies

By |2024-02-18T17:35:40+00:0014 January 2024|Tags: , , , , , , |

It was a shared love of 1930s screwball comedies that brought Shaun McKenna and Andrew Van Sickle together. And a realisation that so many of the dramatists of the time were secretly gay that sparked the idea to collaborate.
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Double Act post-show video and photos: How much would you laugh on your last day?

By |2024-01-14T17:12:41+00:0011 January 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

How often do you have a word with yourself? We're all familiar with the concept of an inner voice, chipping in with sometimes decidedly unhelpful suggestions.
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The Way Old Friends Do post-show video and photos: The cast on ABBA, friendship and gender-swapping

By |2023-09-08T10:58:38+01:005 September 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

In my first West End post-show Q&A for The Way Old Friends Do last month, director Mark Gatiss was asked for his thoughts on the actors who bring to life his husband Ian Hallard's new comedy about the world's first ABBA drag tribute band. At the follow-up session last night, we got to hear what the cast thinks of Mark! 
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The Way Old Friends Do post-show video and photos: Ian Hallard & Mark Gatiss on working together onstage & off

By |2023-08-27T19:59:19+01:0022 August 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

In the first of my post-show Q&As for the West End premiere of The Way Old Friends Do, with writer and star Ian Hallard and director Mark Gatiss, it felt like ABBA's Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid were with us in spirit.
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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.
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