Ade Apetian MBE - gold-medal winning wheelchair basketball player and BBC Presenter - is to be a patron for Blue Sky Actors. Resident creatives at The Stratford Circus Arts Centre for adults with learning disabilities, the company has been creating work professionally since 2011. Apetian will also be joined by footballer Vince Hilaire, one of the first black players to be established in the sport in England.
Blue Sky Actors Announce New Patrons
By Josephine Balfour-Oatts Thursday, February 13 2020, 11:51 - On the Wire -
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Review: INSIDE GIOVANNI’S ROOM at Sadler’s Wells East
By Stuart King Friday, June 13 2025, 11:11
James Baldwin’s 1956 novel Giovanni’s Room in which a young American man tentatively explores his bisexuality while in Paris, was deemed so contentious and controversial that his publishers believed it would end the young writer’s burgeoning literary career.
Inside Giovanni's Room. Photo Drew Forsyth