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

By |2022-04-12T10:37:07+01:0024 March 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

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.
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Square Rounds Q&A video and photos: Sharing drinks and views on destruction

By |2020-02-01T21:52:52+00:0019 September 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The pub beneath the Finborough Theatre, where Proud Haddock's revival of Tony Harrison's Square Rounds, is currently closed for refurbishment. So what does Proud Haddock artistic director Jimmy Walters do on the night of our post-show Q&A? Bring in drinks from the off-licence.
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Q&A video and podcast: Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nanking massacre at Into the Numbers

By |2020-02-02T00:02:38+00:0011 January 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

What an incredibly brave, brilliant and inspiring woman Iris Chang was. What an unimaginably horrific atrocity the Nanking Massacre was. How ashamed I am to have known next to nothing about either before Into the Numbers.
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Q&A video and photos: Talking faith vs family with The Busy World is Hushed cast

By |2020-03-27T15:24:27+00:003 November 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Can we love someone whose belief system we fundamentally disagree with? If we love someone, can we denounce what we believe just to please them? Family and faith compete in thoughtful three-hander The Busy World Is Hushed.
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Q&A podcast and photos: Confronting bullies with the Late Company cast

By |2020-03-27T16:16:48+00:0024 August 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Having heard so many of My Theatre Mates raving about Late Company following its European premiere earlier this year at the Finborough, I was really looking forward to seeing it at Trafalgar Studios. And yet, I still came under-prepared: I didn't bring enough tissues.
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