A very brief post, this one, but sometimes links need to be shared. From Andrew Haydon's theatre blog, some amazing photos of the set to Andreas Kriegenburg's production of Kafka's The Trial.

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I've recently finished up with Cry Havoc, my two-act political thriller in The Blue Room Theatre. One of my friends came and saw the show, and while loving it a great deal she asked if for my next playscript I could write "something a bit more uplifting". I half-jokingly replied that uplifting isn't something I generally do. I like dark material. I enjoy putting my characters through emotional torture. In the three main dramatic works I've had staged (and this is spoiler territory, in case you're worried) I've killed a President and brought down his government in one play, shot one character dead and traumatised the other in a second, and revealed everyone was dead all along in the third. Happy uplifting endings is not what I do.

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