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Knife crime is the subject of a new production that uses MP3 technology to get the cast's powerful message to the audience.

Theatre Royal Stratford East is staging Mad Blud, a performance piece using the voices of real people, including that of a perpetrator.

The saviour of Theatre Royal Stratford East is to be given a memorial as part of a makeover of the town centre.

Joan Littlewood, along with Gerry Raffles, manage to save the theatre from demolition in the 1960s by helping it get Grade II status.

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The Graft
Theatre Royal Stratford East
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Buckle up and brace yourself. It's going to be a bumpy ride in Martina Cole's sordid tale of secret, lies and violence.

Queen of crime writing Martina Cole tells it like it is. And as I talk to her about the adaptation of her novel The Graft for the stage at Theatre Royal Stratford East, she tells me in her gravely Essex tones: "The crime world doesn't frighten me - if people get on my nerves I tell them I will kill them - and they believe me."

Top crime author Martina Cole is on a mission to help ensure Theatre Royal Stratford East survives un-scathed as a cultural gem.

She said: "I believe that theatres should remain at the heart of the community. Funding for our libraries is in jeopardy and I'm worried that our theatres are going to die out too."

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Five Guys Named Moe, Theatre Royal Stratford East
5/5

IN A NUTSHELL
The plot might be paper thin but the Moes couldn't have more energy if they raided a coffee plantation writes Emma Berge.

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Two Women
Theatre Royal Stratford East
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
In a bruising interpretation of a Martina Cole novel, gutsy East End housewife Sue Dalston faces a life in jail for murdering her abusive husband.

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Foreplay, Theatre Royal Stratford East
1/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Characters are supposedly linked by their passionate need to fulfill their sexual desires in this play by Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom, writes Miriam Gillinson

By Miriam Gillinson

4/5

Bad Blood Blues is a finely balanced and engaging debate about the West's use of African "guinea pigs" in the search for an HIV cure.

As this year's East Festival pitches up in the city, The Wharf talks to Vortex Tour East performer Fiona Bevan about her love for the area, her brush with Lauren Laverne and Alex James, and her plans to play at the North Pole.

Navigation, digital art and Asian culture will be celebrated in the third East Festival from today until Tuesday (March 5 to 10).