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Paulette Randall

The latest news and comment on theatre director Paulette Randall

December 2018

  • Doctor Faustus, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London SE1, until 2 Feb

    Doctor Faustus review – devilishly smart show is a hell of a lot of fun

    Jocelyn Jee Esien and Pauline McLynn are on glorious form and bring out the glee in Marlowe’s macabre classic

December 2017

  • The cast of Daisy Pulls It Off at Park Theatre. Photo by Tomas Turpie 32

    Daisy Pulls It Off review – snobs, chums and scrummy tussles in schoolgirl tales spoof

    Paulette Randall imaginatively revives Denise Deegan’s parody with a lively cast but this two-and-a-half-hour spoof is relentless in its gaiety

November 2017

  • ‘It’s not Chekhov’ … Pauline McLynn and Anna Shaffer in Daisy Pulls It Off.

    Daisy Pulls It Off: Pauline McLynn, Anna Shaffer and more on a spiffing school assembly

    Denise Deegan had a West End hit with her parody of 1920s boarding-school novels. Now, Paulette Randall is staging an age-blind revival with a crack cast of actors. They share their teenage memories

September 2015

  • Viola Davis (r) with Queen Latifah at HBO post-Emmys party in Hollywood.

    Emmys 2015: Viola Davis strikes diversity chord with black British actors

    Remarks in acceptance speech it was only lack of opportunity that ‘separates women of colour from anyone else’ garner praise from Britons in industry

April 2015

  • Viv Albertine

    My big break: Ken Loach, Caitlin Moran, Lennie James, Grayson Perry and more explain how they made it

    Are the arts today really closed off to anyone who doesn’t have the right background or financial support? We asked musicians, film-makers, actors, artists, architects and others at the top of their field how they got there

March 2015

  • Play Mas Orange Tree

    Play Mas review – Trinidad through a carnival lens

  • Paulette Randall

    Paulette Randall: my life in five shows

November 2008

  •  Theatre director Paulette Randall

    Portrait of the artist
    Paulette Randall, director

    Talawa theatre company director on Bob Marley, Black Shack Alley, and the 24-hour rule

January 2006

  • 'Sweat is fine. You don't have to have blood'

    First she was forced to disown her biggest hit. Then she was edged out of a major black theatre company. That's enough tough theatre, Paulette Randall tells Emma John.

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