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Occasional features from Nick Awde that aren't published elsewhere.
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  • The Handke Project

    A cluster article in four parts: interviews with Kosovo’s writer Jeton Neziraj, director Blerta Neziraj and actor Adrian Morina, plus ‘Peter Handke: An Idiot’s Guide to a Useful Idiot’

  • Euro.Touch 2021 – National Theatre of Greenland

    Nunatta Isiginnaartitsisarfia (The National Theatre of Greenland) is an independent, public institution, established in 2011. It aims to produce a repertoire of high artistic quality in the performing arts that is based…

  • Prague Quadrennial 2019

    Staging Places Studio – the UK’s Prague Quadrennial theatre design entry https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/staging-places-studio–the-uks-prague-quadrennial-theatre-design-entry

  • Act II – playlet 11 – The Last Crumb

    THE LAST CRUMB A FAMILY, A SUPPER TABLE. DAD IS FINISHING LAYING THE TABLE. DAD: Come on you lot, to the table! KIDS: Aw Dad! DAD: Get off them personal devices— KIDS:…

  • Act II – playlet 10 – Sanctioned

    SANCTIONED LONDON, DOWNING STREET. PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, good afternoon, good day! CLAIMANT: I’ve a serious bad feeling that I’m up to be betrayed. Why am I here, I’ve asked and still…

  • Act II – playlet 09 – Rent

    RENT Yeah I know I wasn’t taking the bus to the meetings. So I was going to go buy my stuff, you know, in the opposite direction. You know that, I know…

  • Act II – playlet 08 – My Rock

    MY ROCK ED: Maria, she’s the rock of my life really. No, we’re rocks for each other if I’m honest. MARIA: A bit of dry land in the rocky seas we call…

  • Act II – playlet 07 – Kids

    KIDS I always help me mum. She gets funny some times, like she says it’s her turns and she can’t really do owt. So I help her. It’s not really much really…

  • Act II – playlet 06 – Karate

    KARATE ALI: So he gave them all the cigarettes. I told him not too. JOHN: It’s the Nigerian army innit. ALI: You’ve heard me tell him not to. But he never listens.…

  • Act II – playlet 05 – Hope

    HOPE (WARMLY) Hello! PHONE RINGS. SHE LOOKS AT IT. Don’t worry, I’ll leave that. IT KEEPS ON RINGING. I’ll put it on silent. I wouldn’t want you to think that I just…

  • Act II – playlet 04 – Everygoth

    EVERYGOTH DEATH HAS FINALLY MADE HIS WAY THROUGH THE DANCING THRONG TO ARRIVE AT THE CLUB BAR. BARPERSON: Yep? DEATH: Your finest piña colada, good barperson. BARPERSON: This is a goth club.…

  • Act II – playet 03 – Diamonds

    DIAMONDS A GRAVEYARD. AN OPEN GRAVE WITH A PILE OF FRESH EARTH BY IT. TWO WOMEN IN THEIR SEVENTIES STAND LOOKING DOWN INTO THE GRAVE. EDNA: It is a funny old world.…

  • How to Avoid Huge Ships

    We’re grateful to our fellow Desert Hearts author Oliver Gizzard for bringing to our attention the truly wonderful How to Avoid Huge Ships and Other Implausibly Titled Books…

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