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Remembrance Monday post-show video and photos: Could you ever forget your own love story?

By |2024-05-04T21:59:41+01:002 May 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

When you find 'the one', can you ever know how long you have? Will your time together be long or short? What will be the first and last thing you remember about it?

Breeding post-show video and photos: How much does adoption discriminate?

By |2024-04-25T21:26:56+01:008 April 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

It's been an extraordinary eight-year journey for Breeding, Barry McStay's comedy-drama about a gay couple's struggles with adoption, with many midwives helping the play's rebirths along the way.

Horne’s Descent post-show video and photos: Are we destined for heaven or hell?

By |2024-04-08T11:40:07+01:006 April 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

Are we all headed straight to heaven or hell? Is there anything we can do to change direction? To alter who we truly are ? These are some of the big questions at the heart of Nina Atesh's new play Horne's Descent.

Why I Stuck a Flare up My Arse for England

By |2024-04-02T20:52:40+01:001 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?!

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.

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.

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). 
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