The fire next time
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The fire next time

Talking About The Fire is the latest in a newish genre: one-person shows about serious topics, such as global population, worldwide animal extinction,  and climate change. Now we have a show about nuclear bombs.

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Ms Singh in the living room with a rapier
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Ms Singh in the living room with a rapier

The drama mounts to a crescendo as rules are broken and the arguments between the characters become increasingly heated. Suddenly the confusion climaxes in a moment of family violence: mum flips the Cluedo board over, sending the pieces flying.

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The sink or swim life of Sara Mardini
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The sink or swim life of Sara Mardini

First came The Swimmers - a flashy dramatisation of the adventures of the Syrian sisters who risked their already endangered lives by jumping from an overcrowded refugee boat and pulling and pushing it for three-and-a-half hours to safety in Lesbos.

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Small town Eswatini cowboys live the big Texas dream 
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Small town Eswatini cowboys live the big Texas dream 

“There’s this song by Dolly Parton, called my Tennessee Mountain Home,” says the man in the dusty African village, “and when you listen to that song it’s like Dolly Parton was telling the story of my life.”

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The threatening teddy bear in the Home Office
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The threatening teddy bear in the Home Office

“The woman I’m about to interview is from The Philippines, which is considered a safe country,” explains the Home Office interviewer, “so see what you think - and don’t be too soft. We have a bit of a joke in the office — if you’re seen as too soft you’ll find the office teddy bear on your desk.”

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Like mixing a movie on the Titanic
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Like mixing a movie on the Titanic

It could have been bad taste to make a film about making a film at the time of the cataclysmic 2020 chemical explosion in Beirut that killed 218, injured 7,000, caused $15 billion property damage, and made about 300,000 people homeless.

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Nine vision of hell in Iran - and elsewhere

Terrestrial Verses is a vivid depiction of what happens when bureaucrats and managers have arbitrary power over individuals. It is like nine visions of personal hell.

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When the Butterfly bites
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When the Butterfly bites

It starts with a production of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly more than a century ago: the handsome visiting white US military officer and the pliant, Asian doll-woman.

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Rough life in an African illiberal democracy
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Rough life in an African illiberal democracy

Bobi Wine: Ghetto President pitches you face-to-face with the rough and tumble of Uganda’s political and election battles as pop star-turned-MP Robert Kyagulanyi  takes on the country’s 36-year dictatorship.

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Celebrating the Peckham-Lagos connection
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Celebrating the Peckham-Lagos connection

Lagos Peckham Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes is full of energy, humour and invention - just like the thousands of Nigerians in the south London district of Peckham, part of 12,000 Nigerians in the borough of Southwark.

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