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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)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:19 March 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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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…

Safiyya Ingar as Asha and Anoushka Chadha as Bettina (Photo: Alex Brenneer)

REVIEW: Two Billion Beats, Orange Tree Theatre (2022) RETURNING January 2023

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:15 February 2022
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Two British Asian sisters, both are at secondary school, one nearing the end and looking at university entrance to SOAS and the other, younger and hoping to buy a pet hamster. The elder girl Asha (Safiyya Ingar) is studying hard and getting involved in political history; the younger Bettina (Anoushka Chadha) is being bullied on the bus home from school. The playwright of Two Billion Beats, Sonali Bhattacharyya is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and is under contract currently to the Almeida Theatre and The Kiln.

Scarlett Brookes as Frieda Joubert and Shaq Taylor as Errol Philander (Photo: Helen Maybanks)

REVIEW: Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Orange Tree Theatre (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:7 September 2021
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She is Frieda Joubert, a librarian (Scarlett Brookes) and he is Errol Philander, a schoolteacher (Shaq Taylor) at a township school. They met when he came to the library to obtain a book to do with his correspondence course. He is looking to improve and she is looking to help him, but they fell in love.