ALL JEW RESPECT...

BOSTON
OUT ALL OVER... 
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Following on from its success at the Stroud Theatre Festival, new one-man show Dog's Chosen continues its development, with two sell-out shows lately in Brighton and more to come 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 can next be seen in the Tent on the Strand at Barnstaple's Fringe TheatreFest, from 28th-30th June. 
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On Saturday 6th October, Robert Linc'd up with Emerge Boston, an open-air celebration of all things Shakespearean, held at Central Park in Boston. The Cohenian contribution, Something Rotten: In Search of Claudius, comprised excerpts from Hamlet paraquel Something Rotten, as well as a little bit from Shakespeare's original... 

MEANWHILE IN COVENTRY...

Short film Autumn Patrol, starring Ross Gurney-Randall as Quint the traffic warden, has been nominated for a Driver Award for Best Short at the Coventry Film Festival, which takes place - in Coventry, funnily enough - on 12th and 13th April. 

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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