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Gabby Best & Will Brown: Pleasance

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Everyone has a story. Expect comic action in The Journey – a play written by a standup that takes us into space. The actors are locals, comedian Gabby Best and Will Brown, so what’s it like performing so close to home? Interview by Nicola Baird The Journey is a new…
Dominic Haddock: opera producer

Dominic Haddock: opera producer

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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. What’s it like running an Islington pub theatre? Meet Dominic Haddock, one of the trio behind OperaUpClose – which puts on affordable opera at the atmospheric King’s Head Theatre on Upper Street and has just set up Islington’s newest theatre above the Hope &…
Piers Torday: children’s novelist

Piers Torday: children’s novelist

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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story.  TV writer and theatre fan Piers Torday has just had his first novel published – The Last Wild. It’s an animal adventure set in a very empty, futuristic English landscape so how did he manage to write it when he’s based in Islington jostled by…