Theatre Review: The Jungle, Playhouse Theatre

The Jungle’s an urgent political immersive monumental piece of theatre set in an Afghan restaurant deep inside the Calais refugee camp, which was bulldozed to the ground by the French authorities in 2016. It’s a hypnotic play. Part documentary, part fiction, part activist, it gives voice to the stories of the refugees and to the reflections of the playwrights Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy, who themselves the cracks in the pavement where cultural shifts happen, the “theatre of hope” to...

Artist creates portraits out of discarded train tickets

Check out this first class artwork – made completely out of old train tickets. British artist, Ed Chapman, 47, created the portraits of well-known East Midlanders including Sir David Attenborough, Sir Isaac Newton and Gary Lineker OBE using over 3,000 discarded tickets. The 10 pieces took a whopping 280 hours to put together in total. Other famous names created include fashion designer, Dame Vivienne Westwood, the late director and actor, Sir Richard Attenborough CBE and the late Sir John Hurt...

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