‘Hopefully the first of many’: Students impress at Hackney Shed’s first Monologue Slam
Teachers want the theatre company’s acting contest to become an annual, borough-wide event
Drama
Shakespeare in Shoreditch festival stages 1,000 plays
Actors will climb aboard a custom built ‘pageant wagon’ and set off on a tour of Hackney
Channel 4’s Top Boy lands second series
East London gang drama starring Ashley Walters will return next year
Top Boy is the real deal
I thought this TV series set in Hackney – where I grew up – might be another cliched urban drama. It rose far above that
Top Boy gets a mixed reception from Hackney’s youth
A panel of locals enjoys a preview of the Channel 4 drama’s first episode, but finds plenty of flaws in Ronan Bennett’s supposedly realistic portrayal of life in the borough
Kats Whiskers children’s free open drama day
10.30am Saturday 5 March 2011, St Matthias School
Channel 4 commissions Hackney-based crime thriller
Top Boy has been written by Ronan Bennett whose credits include the film Public Enemies and TV’s Fields of Gold