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Some reflections on talking theatre & politics at Stratford East
Political theatre, counterinsurgency, censorship
Mar 23, 2025 • Tom Six
Update: October 2024
Talking about theatres and their diversity data; writing about directors since 1945; researching the state of British theatre producing
Oct 20, 2024 • Tom Six
'No one can escape'
Thoughts on 'subjects in history', identity and martyrdom prompted by Khalid Abdalla's 'anti-biography' Nowhere.
Oct 9, 2024 • Tom Six
Gaza, the planetary poly-crisis and queerphobia in Ghana
Some thoughts about Israel's genocide, neo-colonialism, planetary crisis and yesterday's passing of Ghana's queerphobic 'Human Sexual Rights and Family…
Feb 29, 2024 • Tom Six
Messing Me Up / Messing Up 'Me's
Some thoughts about violence and coloniality in Seke Chimutengwende's ‘It Begins in Darkness’ (from October 2022)
Aug 11, 2023 • Tom Six
Crisis and Colonialism in 'Philadelphia'
AIDS, settlers and disastrous consensus
Jul 28, 2023 • Tom Six
Abolish the Stage
Thinking about race and theatre with 'Tambo & Bones'
Jul 17, 2023 • Tom Six
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