Posts Tagged ‘Drama’
Mickey 17 actor Jamila Wingett: ‘There’s a special vibe in Hackney’
The local-born star on her East London roots, working with Bong Joon-Ho, and her dual role as an intimacy coordinator
Read More‘Hopefully the first of many’: Students impress at Hackney Shed’s first Monologue Slam
Teachers want the theatre company’s acting contest to become an annual, borough-wide event
Read MoreShakespeare in Shoreditch festival stages 1,000 plays
Actors will climb aboard a custom built ‘pageant wagon’ and set off on a tour of Hackney
Read MoreChannel 4’s Top Boy lands second series
East London gang drama starring Ashley Walters will return next year
Read MoreTop Boy is the real deal
I thought this TV series set in Hackney – where I grew up – might be another cliched urban drama. It rose far above that
Read MoreTop Boy gets a mixed reception from Hackney’s youth
A panel of locals enjoys a preview of the Channel 4 drama’s first episode, but finds plenty of flaws in Ronan Bennett’s supposedly realistic portrayal of life in the borough
Read MoreKats Whiskers children’s free open drama day
10.30am Saturday 5 March 2011, St Matthias School
Read MoreChannel 4 commissions Hackney-based crime thriller
Top Boy has been written by Ronan Bennett whose credits include the film Public Enemies and TV’s Fields of Gold
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