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Side Shows


Our Side Shows series offer an excellent opportunity for playwrights to work with a professional director and actors to hear their work. Side Shows forms part our wider development offer to writers, informed mostly by our script reading service or other NWS initiatives.

Future reheased readings at the Nightingale Theatre:


Sunday 25 April 2010
Herschel
written by Gail Louw
directed by Helena Bell

Herschel pulled the trigger that precipitated Kristallnacht and by extension the Holocaust. But what happened to that 17 year old ordinary boy after he was arrested and imprisoned in Paris just before the outbreak of war, when the Nazis marched in and Herschel's name was on their top ten wanted list...


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Previous reheased readings:


Sunday 28 June 2009
The Puppy that Ate Christmas
by Andrew G. Marshall and Jamsheed Master
directed by Ed Burnside
Nightingale Theatre at 3pm


Sunday 22 February 2009

Forgiven
by Melissa Perkins
directed by Vincent O'Connell

Sunday 19 October 2008
The Secret Life of a Joke
by Guy Picot

Sunday 28 September 2008
My Space
by Louise Monaghan
directed by Kirsty Housley

Sunday 24 August 2008
The Reception
by Susan Sainsbury
directed by Dinos Aristidou

Sunday 30 September 2007
My Beautiful Arse
by Gail Louw

Sunday 28 October
Something About Sunday
by V.R Morse

Sunday 25 February 2007
The Edge
written by Andrew G. Marshall
directed by Chris Orr

Sunday 26 November 2006
Fifty
written by Edana Minghella
directed by Tom Edmunds