Stuart King

During the final days of Germany’s crumbling Third Reich, the once efficient and mechanised nation has become a volatile and dangerous place, with the lives of potentially thousands of concentration camp inmates hanging in the balance. In Ben Brown’s new play, physiotherapist Felix Kersten (Michael Lumsden) attempts to convene a secret meeting between his Nazi patient Heinrich Himmler (Richard Clothier) and a Swedish member of the World Jewish Congress, Norbert Masur (Ben Caplan).

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In Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie currently playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Jodie Comer plays Tessa, a barrister who during the course of her young career has stood assuredly in courtrooms on countless occasions in close proximity to men who have been accused of rape. But how does that dynamic change once she herself becomes a victim at the hands of a male colleague with an equally promising legal career?

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