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Tom Fool Production Photos Orange Tree Theatre 12th March 2022Cast Anna Francolini Jonah Rzeskiewicz Michael ShaefferCreatives Director : Diyan Zora Designer : Zoe Hurwitz Lighting Designer : Christopher Nairne Sound Designer : Joe Dines Movement Director : Chris Evans Casting Director : Christopher Worrall CDG©The Other Richard

REVIEW: Tom Fool, Orange Tree Theatre (2022)

Tom Fool Me! "A responsible person always has something to do.”Mother Michael Shaeffer as Otto (Photo: The Other Richard) Franz Xaver Kroetz is the most often produced German playwright in…

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Tom Brooke as Alexander Litvinenko (centre flanked by his assassins) (Photo: Marc Brenner)

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Winner Critics’ Circle Best New Play 2019 from our archives

This action by Russian agents (the KGB or their successors, the FSB) is the suspected second prominent murder case on British soil, the first known about being the murder of Bulgarian dissident, Georgi Markov in 1978 with a ricin poisoned pellet shot from an umbrella. The latest in 2018 took place in the sleepy West Country cathedral city of Salisbury when Novichoc a nerve agent was smeared on the door handle of Sergei Skripal's house putting Mr Skripal, his daughter Yulia and a local policeman into hospital and killing another English woman whose partner found the perfume bottle containing the nerve agent.

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