Two of the Featured Show campaigns I’ve been working on recently have been two plays tapping into the political unrest of our times: the return of Tom Salinsky and Robert Khan‘s Brexit comedy to the King’s Head Theatre and the Exchange Theatre’s tenth-anniversary revival of Jean-Paul Sartre‘s classic The Flies.
Scroll down for my on-the-night reactions on visits to each.
For more Featured Content on Brexit, including review round-up, joint interview with writers Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky, video features with “new PM” Adam Masters (aka actor David Benson), rehearsal photographer, and reviews from Mates Liz Dyer, John Chapman, Anne Cox and Johnny Fox, click here. The production continues at the King’s Head Theatre until 6 July 2019.
For more Featured Content on The Flies, including show trailer, behind-the-scenes rehearsal videos, Mate Emma Clarendon’s interview with artistic director David Furlong, character portrait and set designer’s inspiration notebook production, click here. This multimedia, modernist take on Sartre’s 1943 play is booking at the Bunker Theatre until 6 July 2019.
Terri trips: Brexit & The Flies
Terri Paddock founded WhatsOnStage.com and the WhatsOnStage Awards, running the company and its events from 1996 to 2013. Terri is also the author of two novels, Come Clean and Beware the Dwarfs, and has previously written for the Evening Standard, Independent, The Times and other national publications. She also produces the annual Critics' Circle Theatre Awards and acts as a digital, content strategy and event consultant for theatre, producers and other clients. She tweets about theatre at @TerriPaddock.
