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It Is Easy to Be Dead, Finborough Theatre
Moving drama on untimely death of WWI poet Charles Hamilton Sorley
CAPTIVATING: Alexander Knox
[C Scott Ryalnder]
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JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
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PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
OF SMALL comfort to theatre’s enduring existential crises during this unprecedented period is the ability to reach wider audiences online.
For a tiny hidden gem of a pub theatre such as the Finborough in West London, it is perhaps something they could look to utilise to take their productions beyond the 50, often sold-out, seats for their productions.
The story of first-world-war poet Charles Hamilton Sorley, the subject of It Is Easy to Be Dead, is certainly one a wider audience deserves to see.
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