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Who’s watching Who?
‘The Haystack’ by Al Blyth, is a brilliant, engaging, well-researched and pertinent play for our times. Two bright young male computer whizzes are excited to land their ideal jobs at GCHQ but for one of them the dream soon becomes a nightmare as they are asked to trace the source of a leak to a Guardian journalist covering a Middle Eastern Story.
The Unreturning
The Unreturning chronicles the stories of three returning soldiers, all with profound emotional scars. All three stories illustrate the horror of conflict and our inability to escape its consequences. All show the human cost of each new conflict.
NUNS
Written by Australian playwright Robert Luxford, Nuns starts innocently enough as Sister Catherine and Sister Roza share an illicit cigarette, innocent that is until you realize that this is the one transgression which is absolutely forbidden.
Don’t blame the Bankers …. $toopid
At Maida Vale’s delightful, Canal Café, “Don’t Blame the Bankers …, $toopid” is a blisteringly funny, insightful look at a financial sector novice’s experience on the trading floor. Written and directed by Serafina Salvador, who also appears in the piece, it offers a refreshing, insightful and, that rare thing, female perspective on our current economic madness.
One Night in Miami
The young Cassius Clay finds himself the centre of a tug of war between Malcolm X’s desire for a more politically inclusive Islam and the much narrower, and controlling interpretation of the faith practised by the radical African American organization The Nation of Islam, an organization Malcom X was once a part of but from which he is now exiled.