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Developed in collaboration with Autism Anglia, this is a piece that is touching, thought-provoking and humorous in equal parts. And suitable for anyone from 9 to 90! Emerging from an original short improvisation, writer Tommy Campe has worked with Colchester Arts Centre creatives and director Ollie Harrington of Found in Translation to create a piece… Continue reading Bring Back Chainmail

If you love musicals, an exhibition has just opened in the Theatre and Performance galleries of the V&A that celebrates the musical with a display of items in the museum’s collections that will intrigue and dazzle and spark off memories. There are costumes and costume designs, set models, scores, technical drawings, props, posters and record… Continue reading Re:Imagining Musicals

The last year in school can be a testing time in many ways and, if you happen to be Muslim in Britain, there is that extra difficulty of racism. Karim Khan’s generally upbeat, fast-moving play explores these things in what initially feels like a mildly amusing situation comedy but becomes more serious over its nineteen… Continue reading Brown Boys Swim

A hilarious and joyful evening in the newly named Tanya Moiseivitsch Playhouse at the Crucible is provided by Tom Basden’s adaptation of Dario Fo’s brilliant farce about police corruption. The adaptation brings the play up to date and places it in a British context at a time when incidents of police brutality, racial discrimination and… Continue reading Accidental Death of an Anarchist