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Shaun Parkes

May 2022

  • Rave on … the cast of Human Traffic, with John Simm (centre).

    How we made
    How we made Human Traffic: ‘The first question I asked in the auditions was: have you ever taken drugs?’

    John Simm: ‘Danny Dyer and I went to Creamfields and every clubber had seen the film. We got hundreds of off-their-nut people coming up and hugging us’

September 2020

  • Letitia Wright rallies protesters in Mangrove.

    Mangrove review – Steve McQueen takes axe to racial prejudice

    The notorious 1970 prosecution that exposed police harassment of black Britons is brilliantly evoked as part of the director’s Small Axe project

April 2020

  • Cassandra by The Royal Ballet

    Clap for carers: doctors and nurses on stage – in pictures

    The nation has been pausing on Thursday evenings to applaud our NHS heroes – here’s a roundup of medical dramas snapped by our theatre photographer

March 2019

  • THE FIGHT - press still - TFD71353-Photo Gareth Gatrell

    The Fight review – Jessica Hynes boxes clever in punchy drama

    Hynes’s debut as writer and director is an engaging story about a woman facing her daughter’s fears – and her own – in the ring

July 2010

  • DIVE

    Observer TV reviews
    TV review: Dive; Identity; To Kill a Mockingbird at 50

    A sporting love story with mesmerising performances from young British actors and a Spooks-type drama make great summer offerings, says Euan Ferguson

March 2009

  • Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaun Parkes in Elmina's Kitchen, 2005

    Theatre blog
    I will not put another dead young black man on stage

    Patricia Cumper: Forget the vogue for tales of knife crime and hoodies – I’m interested in the full range of the black British experience

February 2009

  • TV tonight
    Watch this

  • Boys and Girls Alone (Channel 4)

    Kathryn Flett on television
    A world without adults? Good idea!

  • Whitechapel

    TV review
    Last night's TV

  • TV tonight
    Watch this

    Gareth McLean

June 2006

  • Eat your heart out, Tarantino

  • Titus Andronicus

May 2005

  • Hackney rebel

    Theatre: After a sell-out run at the National in 2003, this new production of Elmina's Kitchen, with writer Kwame Kwei-Armah now in the lead as Deli, has lost none of its force.

April 2005

  • Elmina's Kitchen

  • Soul baring

May 2003

  • Elmina's Kitchen

    National Theatre, London

April 2002

  • The full Monte

  • Offending Angels

September 2001

  • Blue Orange

    Duchess, London
    Rating: ****

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