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‘It’s not a black & white issue’: WATCH rehearsal room interviews with A Lesson from Aloes’ company

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Janet Suzman won an Evening Standard Best Actress award in 1973 for South African master Athol Fugard’s Hello & Goodbye. Now she directs the first-ever London revival of his 1978 apartheid classic A Lesson From Aloes. Watch our rehearsal room interviews with her and the cast. Time to get booking!

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NEWS: Acclaimed binaural sound show Thrown comes to VAULT Festival 2019

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Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, theatre company Living Record is bringing its innovative show Thrown to London’s VAULT Festival next month. The one-woman production, which uses headphones and binaural sound to engulf the audience, plays a short season from 6 to 10 March.






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New post-show Q&A: Join Terri for the timely return of Tony Benn play Tony’s Last Tape

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As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 9 April 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to London’s Omnibus Theatre for the timely return of the one-man play about the late political titan and “most dangerous man in Britain” Tony Benn. Got any questions?






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‘The decisions he makes during the story echo across the decades’: Sean Rigby on The Rubenstein Kiss

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As Endeavour commences its sixth season on ITV this week, one of its stars, Sean Rigby, has entered the rehearsal room for a timely revival of James Phillips’ award-winning The Rubenstein Kiss. We caught up with him about swapping DS Jim Strange for the brother of an alleged Soviet spy. Time to get booking!






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Counting Sheep Q&A video: Why did Ukrainian protestors fly EU flags from the barricades?

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It’s only a matter of days until the UK is scheduled to depart the European Union. As anyone who follows me knows, Brexit is an outcome I’ve been fighting, marching and campaigning against since David Cameron first announced the date for the 2016 referendum.  So to be invited to chair Counting Sheep, in a new co-production with Belarus Free […]






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‘A shipping container seemed ideal, as it’s easily transportable’: Glen Neath on how Darkfield’s Seance & Flight came to be

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Shunt, a collective of theatremakers that had huge success with their site-specific productions around London Bridge from 2000 to 2010, has also spawned Darkfield, founded by former Shunters Glen Neath, David Rosenberg and Andrea Salazar. In our interview, Glen explains how Darkfield’s binaural work in shipping containers has evolved. Time to get booking!






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Q&A video & photos: Returning Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the scene of the literary crime

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The bookworm in me adores everything about libraries and they don’t get much more atmospheric, or historic, than The London Library, the world’s oldest independent lending library – and now a highly unconventional theatrical venue for Creation Theatre Company’s latest offering, Dracula.






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WATCH: How many of 1927 Productions’ hybrid animated hits have you seen?

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1927 Productions have won awards around the world for their dark, otherworldly shows that synchronise hand-made animation with performance, music and song. How many have you seen? Watch our trailer series for a glimpse. Their 2010 hit The Animals and Children took to the Streets returns this month for a strictly limited season. Time to get booking!