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Theatre Paradok

6 articles, sorted by name / date

Gormenghast »

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Down a winding lane just off the Royal Mile, hidden in the heart of Edinburgh, a gothic church has been transformed into the world of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast by alternative student theatre company Paradok. The stage version of Peake’s p...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Rebecca Tamas | Read more »

Creating a Peake performance »

Gormenghast

“I think Mervyn Peake is underappreciated, especially among our generation. I’ve lost count of the number of times people have said 'oh my mum loves Gormenghast' or, 'ooh me dad’s a big fan, eh',” begins director Hamish Kal...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

The BFG »

The BFG

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From the alternative student theatre group Theatre Paradok, whose fringe success was the well received Nights at the Circus, comes their production of Roald Dahl’s The BFG; a slightly gruesome fairytale about a young orphan who is taken in the ni...

Sat 22 Jan 2011 by Virginia Hancock | Read more »

The Oresteia »

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Theatre Paradok’s Oresteia condenses the lengthy three-play text into two hours, with a greater focus on Agamemnon than The Libation Bearers or The Eumenides. Stand-out performances included Becka Wolfe as a suitably savage, writhing Cassandra a...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Felix Trench | Read more »

Theatrical by convention »

The Penny Dreadfuls: Aeneas Faversham Forever

Edinburgh's busy seasonThe Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe may be over but there’s no rest for the keen theatregoer. The Lyceum Theatre opens its 08/09 season on Friday 12th September with its production of Macb...

Fri 19 Sep 2008 by Lucy Jackson | Read more »

Theatre Paradok's latest visit »

Theatre Paradok: 'The Visit'

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Theatre Paradok's adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1956 play The Visit tackles complex issues of human morality and the gradually corruptive effect of money on a once morally strong society.The play centres on the inhabitants of the town of G&...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Rosie Hedger | Read more »

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