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Black Mountain and How To Be A Kid, Orange Tree Theatre
Black Mountain For fans of Seventies style Thriller there is much to admire In Brad Birch’s Black Mountains, performed by Paines Plough. Paul (Hasan Dixon) finds himself in a remote farmhouse, trying to save his relationship with Rebecca (Katie Elin-Salt). The idea is to escape from it all to work on their relationship, but it…
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Dame Maggie Smith in conversation with Gyles Brandreth, 19 November 2017
Dame Maggie Smith will take to the Orange Tree stage in our new series of talks with our most distinguished actors about people they’ve worked with, admired and learned from. A celebration of British theatre’s history and its especially collaborative nature, it will be an unrivalled opportunity to see great artists talk up-close in the Orange…
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The End of Hope, Orange Tree Theatre
Guest post by Oliver Wake David Ireland’s The End of Hope (previously seen in Glasgow as The End of Hope, The End of Desire – a long title for a short play) comes to the Orange Tree for a short run as part of the theatre’s directors’ festival. It’s an intimate two-hander performed in the…
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The Lottery of Love, Orange Tree Theatre
The best play I’ve seen so far this year is the Orange Tree’s revival of 80s all-female comedy-drama Low Level Panic, so I had tentative high hopes for Lottery of Love, an adaptation of Marivaux’ little-performed 18th century comedy Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard. These hopes were more than fulfilled. The plot is…
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