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Martin Shippen
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5* freelance arts PR. Coventrian. @bushtheatre @LivEveryPlay #DearEnglandOnStage
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20 Questions with ….. David Sturzaker. Currently appearing as Gareth Southgate in Dear England. Currently on tour around the UK

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20 Questions with ….. David Sturzaker * Fairy Powered Productions
Actor David Sturzaker sat down with fairypowered to answer 20 questions. David is currently playing Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s Olivier Award winning Dear England.  Currently on tour around the...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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'In a country spilling over with Jenrick-like jingoism, this deeply humane production with many of its roots in the Birmingham he recently scorned, is the ultimate antidote' - 'After Sunday' @bushtheatre.bsky.social morningstaronline.co.uk/article/supe... #morningstaronline
Superb Caribbean hotpot
After SundayBush Theatre, London★★★★★ARRIVING as it does from the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry amid a litany of racist headlines, prison scandals and the increasingly febrile atmosphere the far right ...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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World Premieres and Bold New Productions Announced for @liveveryplay.bsky.social 2026 Season via @theatreweekly.com - theatreweekly.com/world-premie...
World Premieres and Bold New Productions Announced for Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse’s 2026 Season - Theatre Weekly
Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse has unveiled its 2026 season, featuring five new productions from acclaimed playwrights and creatives
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November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher' announced @LivEveryPlay - www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Hilary Mantel story imagining Margaret Thatcher’s assassination to be staged in Liverpool
Short story set in 1983, and published a year after the former prime minister’s death, considers ‘what happens when people feel they don’t have a voice’ says director John Young
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November 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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New shows announced @bushtheatre.bsky.social - www.whatsonstage.com/news/bush-th... via @whatsonstage.bsky.social
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October 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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theatre-news.com - Live cooking and raw honesty: Sophia Griffin’s 'After Sunday' heats up the
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News, stage reviews, West End, fringe, Broadway, discount tickets & gossip from the theatre and performing arts world
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October 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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30th Anniversary Production of THE MEMORY OF WATER announced @liveveryplay.bsky.social and @octagontheatre -
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30th Anniversary Production of THE MEMORY OF WATER
The Liverpool Everyman and Octagon Theatre Bolton have announced the 30th Anniversary production of Shelagh Stevenson's Olivier Award-winning comedy, The Memory of Water.
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October 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Shifters star Heather Agyepong has argued that the Benedict Lombe play is proof that theatres can make a profit without high ticket prices.

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Shifters star: Theatres don't need expensive tickets to turn a profit
Shifters star Heather Agyepong has argued that the Benedict Lombe play is proof that theatres can make a profit without high ticket prices
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September 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Tears, laughter, recognition: Not Your Superwoman at the Bush Theatre is a deeply moving story of mothers, daughters, and the cycles Black women carry and try to break. With powerhouse performances from Golda Rosheuvel and Letitia Wright.

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Not Your Superwoman - Bush Theatre, London – Salterton Arts Review
A powerful new Bush Theatre play, Not Your Superwoman follows three generations of Black women navigating love, grief, and generational cycles.
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September 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Production Images Released of Golda Rosheuvel and Letitia Wright in Not Your Superwoman @bushtheatre.bsky.social Theatre via @theatreweekly.com theatreweekly.com/production-i...
Production Images Released of Golda Rosheuvel and Letitia Wright in Not Your Superwoman at Bush Theatre - Theatre Weekly
New production images have been released of Golda Rosheuvel and Letitia Wright in the world premiere of Not Your Superwoman,
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September 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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#CHARLOTTESVILLE @pleasance.co.uk discussed in @washingtonpost.com along with ‘The Horse of Jenin’ which transfers to @bushtheatre.bsky.social in November. - www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | Still processing the turbulent past decade? So are these Fringe shows.
In Edinburgh, Scotland, solo artists turned the pages back on recent history, from covid lockdowns to the Charlottesville rally.
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August 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Celebrating 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen, Dyad Productions presents Austen’s Women – Lady Susan at The Horton, Epsom, on Friday 12 September at 8pm
Rebecca Vaughan Brings Jane Austen’s Lady Susan to The Horton, Epsom
Celebrating 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen, Dyad Productions presents Austen’s Women – Lady Susan at The Horton, Epsom, on Friday 12 September at 8pm
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August 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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'One of the 10 standout shows of @edfringe.bsky.social ' @voguemagazine.bsky.social on #CHARLOTTESVILLE - www.vogue.com/article/10-s...
10 Standout Acts From This Year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival
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August 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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“Far Away” at Ambika P3 - 5* from Plays International - playsinternational.org.uk/far-away-amb...
“Far Away” at Ambika P3
Rebecca McCutcheon production, of Caryl Churchill play for Lost Text/Found Space, staged in Ambika P3 featuring Lizzie Hopley.
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August 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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📣 REVIEW | FAR AWAY at Ambika P3

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💬 “This play has reached a high point through imaginative design and dramatic setting”

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📷 Ellie Kurttz

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August 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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'Gabriel Jason Dean’s script absolutely stuns' - 5* for RIFT @traversetheatre.bsky.social from @bingefringemag.bsky.social - www.bingefringe.com/2025/08/04/r...
REVIEW: RIFT, Luna Stage and Richard Jordan Productions, EdFringe 2025 ★★★★★ – Binge Fringe Magazine
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August 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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'Once seen, unforgotten' 5* for RIFT @traversetheatre.bsky.social from @theskinnymag.bsky.social - www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/ed...
Rift @ Traverse Theatre: Edinburgh Fringe review - The Skinny
Gabriel Jason Dean's Rift is an unforgettable gut punch about brotherhood, abuse, and the space between reality and fiction.
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August 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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'This is a poetic piece of writing, lyrically enfleshed by a terrific central performance, which asks questions about honesty, love, integrity, and happiness. @broadwaybaby.com on 'The Truman Capote Talk Show' @pleasance.co.uk - broadwaybaby.com/shows/a-poet...
Broadway Baby: The Truman Capote Talk Show \u2013 Winner: Scotsman Fringe First Award
Listing info for ​The Truman Capote Talk Show \u2013 Winner: Scotsman Fringe First Award on Broadway Baby
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August 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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'a powerful call for radical empathy, for the power of listening – even when that’s uncomfortable – to find a way forward.' - @fringereview.bsky.social on RIFT @traversetheatre.bsky.social - fringereview.co.uk/review/edinb...
RIFT
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August 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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'Gabriel Jason Dean’s writing is sharp and unpredictable. It disarms with playful humour, then hits hard' 4* - @broadwayworld.com on RIFT @traversetheatre.bsky.social - www.broadwayworld.com/scotland/art...
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: RIFT, Traverse Theatre
Two brothers — one a progressive novelist, the other a convicted murderer and high-ranking member of a white supremacist prison gang — shared a traumatic childhood. Now adults, these men navigate the ...
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August 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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'If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention' - 4* from @theguardian.com for #CHARLOTTESVILLE @pleasance.co.uk - www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...
Charlottesville review – urgent voices against the alt-right’s extremist ideology
In a confident verbatim show, Priyanka Shetty snaps from voice to voice to create a rich vision of the social fabric torn by the 2017 Unite the Right rally attack in Virginia
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August 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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‘ a masterclass in engaging political writing’ **** Fest Magazine on #CHARLOTTESVILLE at @pleasance.co.uk festmag.com/2025/08/01/r...
Review: #CHARLOTTESVILLE
A passionate and stirring docudrama from Priyanka Shetty…
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August 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Exclusive: Play which explores if it is possible to love someone whose views you hate is to make its UK ­premiere at the Fringe
Play explores if it is possible to love someone whose views you hate
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July 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Edinburgh Fringe preview: The Truman Capote Talk Show loureviews.blog/2025/07/29/e... via
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Edinburgh Fringe preview: The Truman Capote Talk Show - LouReviews
LouReviews is a website which reviews, promotes and supports the arts - London theatre, films, books and digital theatre/TV
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July 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Dear England tour to star David Sturzaker & Samantha Womack

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#DavidSturzaker (Doctors) stars as Gareth Southgate, with #SamanthaWomack (EastEnders) as Pippa Grange

Touring 15 September 2025-14 March 2026

#DearEngland by #JamesGraham, directed by #RupertGoold
Dear England tour to star David Sturzaker & Samantha Womack | West End Theatre
The National Theatre has announced initial casting for its new touring production of acclaimed play Dear England by James Graham (Sherwood).
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July 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM