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Thespians know David Rosenberg as a founding artist of Shunt and a theatre director who indulges in experimentation; Run Riot regulars will also be familiar with his untraditional approach to interviews, which are always blissfully blurb free and intrigue heavy.
A little over 3 years ago Nick Giles left Donmar Warehouse to become Director of Shoreditch Town Hall. His pitch to the venue’s board was simple and ambitious - inject the architectural gem with an artistic programme to match: “Saving the building was not enough – we needed to give it a life, and audiences and our local community compelling reasons to come through our doors.”
Image: Alex Brenner
‘Unbelievably,’ says Helen Lannaghan, one of the two directors of the London International Mime Festival, ‘this is our 39th year. Who’d have thought it?’
In 1987 my Dad took me and my Mum to Spain. I was 18 months old and only memory I have of the holiday is sipping cola and dancing to the Hokey Cokey surrounded by other council kids giving it the ‘left leg in’!
