Venkatesh plays Lt. Colonel Venkat Reddy, an Indian Army officer specialising in counter-terrorism and hostage negotiation, in Anil Ravipudi’s upcoming entertainer.
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Venkatesh plays Lt. Colonel Venkat Reddy, an Indian Army officer specialising in counter-terrorism and hostage negotiation, in Anil Ravipudi’s upcoming entertainer.
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A new play revisits the story of Ireland’s 18th-century German refugees, whose experience of prejudice and exclusion resonates with today’s debates over immigration In the early 18th century, a few thousand Germans fled religious persecution and near starvation in their homeland and ended up in remote rural Irish villages. The Irish Palatines, as they were known, were poor, conservative homesteaders who couldn’t speak the language and were the object of suspicion and violence – precursors to the displaced Syrians or Afghans of the past decade. Their story is told in Refuge, a co-production between Staatstheater Mainz and the Irish company Fishamble. Part love story, part social commentary, it is performed by a mixed cast, mainly in English but with some German interludes. Continue reading...

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