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Writer and Director: George Grant  Relentlessly farcical, dark, bleak and breakneck, George Grant’s intense, screen-mediated satire lays bare the absurdity and chaos of modern international politics and hierarchical power plays. Set amid a COBRA-style meeting, held over Microsoft Teams because Whitehall is unavailable (Larry the cat is poorly), the action centres on Gran...

Billed as ‘a Sketchy Goose’ Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, the most pertinent word is sketchy. There are lots of good and original ideas here, but it needs a lot of finessing if the jokes are going to land. A pious start to the show with a priest welcoming a new pope, a wrestling strong man, [...]

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Writer: Libby Wattis Director: Jeremy Stockwell This was a highly unusual, but ultimately rewarding, evening. The Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre, for a start, is a terrific community resource, tucked away in a cul de sac in Headingley’s student district which was packed out in early evening with those who found it helpful to have [...]

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Writer: Mohamed-Zain Dada   Director:  Milli Bhatia   Mohamed-Zain Dada’s boisterous, high-energy, thought-provoking debut play, Blue Mist, which premiered at the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in October 2023, makes a welcome stop at Stratford East as part of a short national tour, directed again by Milli Bhatia. &nbs...

Writer: Stephanie Bain and the Almeida Community Company Directors: Montel Douglas, Jordana Golbourn, Chris Sonnex and Ella Zgorska 1000 (Millennia) is a community production, by and for the local community, examining Islington’s past and its possible future, on a scale of 2000 years, with our present day forming the mid-point. For the first half, the [...]

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