ALL JEW RESPECT...
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Following on from its world premiere at the Stroud Theatre Festival, Robert Cohen's new one-man show, Dog's Chosen, is set for further dates in Brighton and at this summer's Fringe Theatrefest in Barnstaple. 
Though prompted by the recent explosion of debate about anti-semitism in the UK (and especially in the Labour Party), the show is not primarily about that controversy, any more than it's about Israel/Palestine or the Holocaust. Naturally it touches on all of these - any discussion of Judaism comes with a roomful of elephants - but first and foremost it's about an Anglo-Welsh atheist exploring his own Jewish roots and the way they have impinged on his life despite an overwhelmingly secular upbringing.
Dog's Chosen will be at the Duke of Wellington (aka The Welly) on 29th and 30th March, and in the Tent on the Strand at Barnstaple's Fringe TheatreFest, from 28th-30th June. 

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Sheila Llewellyn’s The Papakh Hat is a story of love, fear and loss on the eve of the Iranian revolution. It was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards.
Robert Cohen’s reading, recorded for Costa by the Spoken Ink company, can now be heard here. 
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The Ragged Regiment is a darkly comic stage play depicting internecine warfare backstage at a stuffed-animal museum in Cromer. It won the 2014 Constance Cox Playwriting Prize.
A filmed extract from the play can be seen on Youtube: click on the picture to eavesdrop on an awkward breakfast conversation between Angie (Jenny Rowe) and her sister Trinity (Erica Smith), in whose boyfriend Noah she has taken an unacceptable level of interest.
Robert Cohen can be Twittered at both @cohenbobbycoco and @HighVisTheShow