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Banksy: The Room in the Elephant – review

By East End Review | Friday 11 April 2014 at 08:01

Arcola theatre hosts play about a homeless man who is evicted from his temporary shelter after a Banksy daub makes it a work of art

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Eldorado – review

By East End Review | Thursday 10 April 2014 at 22:49

How would a Western power deal with being on the receiving end of war asks Eldorado by Marius von Mayenburg

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The Nine O'Clock Slot – review

By East End Review | Thursday 10 April 2014 at 22:12

Ambitious play highlights the propensity of ‘paupers’ funerals’ in London and the anonymity of those left to die alone

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Wuthering Heights – preview

By East End Review | Thursday 10 April 2014 at 21:41

Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights has been adapted for stage and is showing at the Rosemary Branch

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Roll up! Graeae to take to the skies at CircusFest

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 3 April 2014 at 13:40

Disability arts pioneers to collaborate with Brazilian company in circus-inspired aerial production

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Jane Eyre at the Rosemary Branch – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 18 March 2014 at 13:03

Stage adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s classic Victorian novel captures the raw power and emotion of the original

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Play tackles subject of 'paupers' funerals'

By East End Review | Monday 10 March 2014 at 16:25

The death industry and the consequences of dying alone without dependents is the focus of a new play to be staged this month at the Red Gallery in Shoreditch

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Roy Williams to make return to East London with new play Kingston 14

By East End Review | Monday 10 March 2014 at 16:25

The playwright is back at Stratford East with a play that explores corruption in Jamaica with Goldie in a starring role

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Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales to be staged at Shoreditch Town Hall

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 March 2014 at 16:34

‘A story is better than a commandment’ author of His Dark Materials tells the Hackney Citizen

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Jane Eyre to show us ‘how to be right in love’ at Rosemary Branch theatre

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 March 2014 at 15:43

Stage adaptation of nineteenth century novel returns for a second run at Off West End award-winning theatre

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Transgender roles as Jacobean tragedy brought into modern era in Cover Her Face

By East End Review | Friday 7 February 2014 at 11:52

Performance artist La JohnJoseph stars in fifties take on John Webster’s revenge tragedy

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In search of all that glitters – In Skagway at the Arcola

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 6 February 2014 at 18:31

Karen Ardiff’s new play highlights plight of Irish migrant women during the Klondike Gold Rush

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream brings War Horse team back together

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 6 February 2014 at 18:05

Director Tom Morris and Handspring Puppet Company reunited for production of Shakespeare comedy at the Barbican

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Blind and Doing the Business – review

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 6 February 2014 at 17:52

Two plays written by Doug Lucie performed at the Courtyard Theatre look at the market-driven motives underpinning the art and theatre world

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Advice for the Young at Heart – Theatre Centre commissioned play looks at 1958 and 2011 riots in London

By East End Review | Friday 10 January 2014 at 11:13

Much has been said and written about the riots which swept London in 2011. Everyone from politicians to social workers have voiced their opinions on the state of our youth and their future. Attempting to get to grips with these issues, Advice for the Young at Heart sets out to examine both contemporaneous teenage experiences…

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Arcola to visit the Spanish Golden Age

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 9 January 2014 at 11:04

Season of classic Spanish drama begins at the Arcola this month

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Richard II at the Barbican – review

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 9 January 2014 at 10:37

David Tennant is majestic as Richard II at the Barbican in Shakespeare’s tale of crown and country

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Now open: Ophelia, Hackney’s newest theatre

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 11 December 2013 at 17:25

Dalston venue hosts production of Absence by Tim Cook

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The El. Train delivers Eugene O’Neill triple bill

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 15:42

A collection of one-act plays by Irish American playwright explores life on the dark side of the tracks

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Lizzie Siddal at Arcola Theatre – preview

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 December 2013 at 09:48

Model for John Everett Millais’ famous painting of Ophelia is the subject of new play

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