Following on from such successes as ‘The Red’ and ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’, Original Theatre returns with their next online offering; Shomit Dutta’s ‘Stumped’. This interesting piece tells the story of two great playwrights, Samuel Beckett (played here by Stephen Tompkinson) and Harold Pinter (played by Andrew Lancel). The two were great friends and they shared a love for cricket, something that Pinter described as ‘the greatest thing that God created on Earth’, with t

In the dying days of World War II, a meeting takes place between two men who were unlikely to ever cross paths, Norbert Masur, a representative of the World Jewish Congress and Heinrich Himmler, a prominent Nazi. ‘The End of the Night’ by Ben Brown and directed by Alan Scrachan tells the tale of this meeting, how Himmler’s trusted physiotherapist Felix Kersten made it all happen, and how it saved thousands of lives. Masur (played by Ben Caplan) believes that, with Hitler in h

When you hear the words ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ you would easily be forgiven for envisioning images of mist covered moors, shadows in the darkness and the risk of death by murderous hound, and whilst all of these things appear in this Peepolykus adaptation by John Nicholson and Steven Canny, the classic scary story has well and truly been given the comedy treatment in a way you could never have imagined. It tells the story of the rumoured curse that surrounds the Bask

With such successes as ‘Into the Night’, ‘A Splinter of Ice’ and ‘Being Mr Wickham’ under their belts, Original Theatre have been pushing the boundaries of online theatre, bringing high quality entertainment to audiences at home and setting a standard for how powerful theatre can be even when through a screen. Their most recent offering ‘The Red’ by comedian Marcus Brigstocke, brings together father and son team Bruce and Sam Alexander in a two-person family drama that explor