Theresa by Julia Pascal
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day A semi-staged reading of Theresa 28 January 202419.00-21.00 Doors open 18.30pmBurgh House, New End Square, London, […]
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman!
A dance-theatre performance at the Bloomsbury Festival 2023. What is your image of a 19th century woman? A doctor? An […]
Summer 2023 newsletter
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman!
DANCING, TROUBLE MAKING, TABOO!: 19TH CENTURY RULE BREAKERS: Sunday October 22nd A dance theatre performance dramatising the lives of a […]
A MANCHESTER GIRLHOOD: A REFLECTION ON OUR NORTHERN TOUR AND PRODUCTIONS IN LONDON APRIL & MAY 2023
Julia Pascal A Manchester Girlhood. Blackpool’s Old Electric Theatre Manchester’s Jewish Museum Burgh House, Hampstead, Camden, London JW3, Camden, London […]
WOMEN FOR WOMEN: 19th Century Women in Bloomsbury
We continue to uncover trailblazing 19th century women whose voices should be heard and shared. We recognise the barriers women faced, […]
Pascal Theatre Company returns from Blackpool and Manchester
After successful showings in the north, A MANCHESTER GIRLHOOD Moves to London: 17th May 2023, 7.00pm at Burgh House, HampsteadWhat’s On […]
A Manchester Girlhood – at Manchester Jewish Museum Review
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Pascal Theatre Company NOW in Blackpool and Manchester
A Manchester Girlhood shows: 20 April 2023, 7pm at the Old Electric Theatre, Blackpool: https://theoldelectric.co.uk/whats-on/list/?tribe-bar-search=A+MANCHESTER+GIRLHOOD 23 April 2023, 7pm at […]
April Premieres
Pascal Theatre Company takes the train! A Manchester Girlhood, written and directed by Julia Pascal, performed by Lesley Lightfoot, Amanda Maud, Eoin […]
World Poetry Day 2023
Today is World Poetry Day. We celebrate poetry as the world’s oldest form of storytelling but who was the world’s […]
Ellen Frantz interviews leadership coach Annette Corbett to mark International Women’s Day 2023
Listen to the interview: Ellen Frantz interviewed Annette Corbett for Pascal Theatre Company to hear her experience and views of […]
International Women’s Day 2023
Ada Lovelace invented the computer in the 18th century. Only in the 21st is her name becoming spoken about so […]
3 Interactive Workshops Kilburn Older Voices Exchange April 2023
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As Happy As God In France
Burgh House 26 January 2023 A hidden story of women’s imprisonment, for the crime of being exiled Jews was witnessed by […]
Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
They say it never happened. They say the Jews invented it. They say that it’s a lie. A hoax. But […]
Pascal Theatre Company Winter/Spring Newsletter 2023
Coming Up in 2023 As Happy As God In France Burgh House 26 January 2023 We will mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 with […]
A Manchester Girlhood – Trailer
Pascal Theatre Company takes the train! A Manchester Girlhood , which tells the story of three Jewish girls and their journey […]
12:37 by Julia Pascal premieres at Finborough Theatre
Pascal Theatre in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presentsThe world premiereWritten and Directed by Julia PascalwithAlex Cartuson. […]
Eleanor Marx: A Life in Movement: October 23rd
A dance-theatre community performance featuring moving tableaux from different aspects of Eleanor Marx’s life and work: Students from The Place, […]
The Day of the Girl Child
Today is the Day of the Girl Child. In so many countries, being born a girl is to be born […]
Creative Writing Workshops Starting Monday 10 October
Creative Writing Workshops for 10-16 year-oldsMondays 4-5pmat St Pancras Community Association, Camden Town The stories of two radical 19th century women […]
Pascal Theatre Company newsletter September 2022
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Objectified, derided, demeaned: sexism is still rampant on stage in the era of #MeToo Arifa Akbar
Objectified, derided, demeaned: sexism is still rampant on stage in the era of #MeToo | Theatre | The Guardian This […]
Emilia Bassano (Emilia Lanier) 1569-1645
Today we honour Emilia Bassano who died 377 years ago. She is acknowledged to be the first woman, writing in […]
World Autism Awareness week 29 March-4 April
Everyone’s experience of having a family member or friend with autism is different but the common denominator in 2022 is […]
World Theatre Day
Theatre and storytelling is in our DNA. We crave stories, we want to be excited, shocked, bewildered and stimulated. Theatre […]
Neurodivergent Awareness Week : Lennie Varvarides from Dyspla interviewed by Ronnie Krupa
Lennie Varvarides from Dyspla interviewed by Ronnie Krupa for Pascal Theatre Company for Neurodivergent Awareness Week How did you first […]
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – continuing the debate: WOMEN’S ACHIEVEMENTS
In the dojo, when I had a man down on the mat, all I could feel was the kitchen chef’s […]
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY continuing the debate:
WOMEN WHO’VE INFLUENCED YOU Greta Thunberg. It’s not just a woman, it’s also a very young woman, and she has […]
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 8 MARCH 2022
But surely Adam cannot be excused, Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What Weakness offered, Strength might have refused, Being Lord of all, the greater was his shame: Although the Serpent’s craft had her abused, God’s holy word ought all his actions frame, For he was Lord and King of all the earth, Before poore Eve had either life or breath Download QR
Sephardi Iberian Heritage
After Brexit many British Jews discovered that they were entitled to Portuguese and Spanish citizenship as a result of the […]
Zein oder nit Zein
Hitler killed thousands of Jews who spoke Yiddish.But the language refuses to die.This is Lesley Lightfoot, whose grandparents spoke Yiddish, […]
INTERNATIONAL MOTHER TONGUE LANGUAGE DAY 21 FEBRUARY
LOST FOR WORDS: QUIZ English is often said to have the largest vocabulary, but do you sometimes struggle to find […]
Licoricia of Winchester
An English history you never learned in school. She was a successful businesswoman. She lent money to the king of […]
Pascal Theatre Company Newsletter January 2022
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Roma and Sinti People
“Europe’s Roma and Sinti people (often labelled as ‘Gypsies’ historically) were targeted by the Nazis for total destruction. The Porrajmos, […]
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 27 JANUARY – RECORDING FROM RUTH’S MEMORIES
Ruth Posner’s Memories Ruth Posner’s memories of being ripped from a happy childhood and forced into the Warsaw Ghetto show […]
THE CORRIDOR OF LIGHT
Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 Here are the final moments of our production of The Dybbuk. You can kill a people but […]
Where was the Joan of Arc to stop the Holocaust of Black and Jew?
Reader: Samantha Pearl I am a saint because I saved France from the English. But a real saint, a saint […]
How can theatre bear testimony to the annihilation of a people?
Holocaust Memorial Day 27th January 2022 Pascal Theatre Company has produced plays sourced by living testimony to commemorate a vibrant […]
Congratulations to our long term team member, actor-dancer Ruth Posner for her British Empire Medal in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List.
Ruth’s services to the Holocaust Memorial Trust are recognised by the government.We honour her for her courage, her curiosity, intelligence […]
The Whitehall Conference
Julia Pascal Jews returned to England in 1656 after the Whitehall Conference-right? This cancelled the royal expulsion of Jews from […]
Kate Barazetti
d 28 September 2021 It is with great sadness that we report the death of Pascal Theatre Company’s former Financial […]
Mayowa Olowoselu interviewed by Ronnie Krupa for Black History Month
What does Black History Month mean for you? Is it tokenism? I’m very interested in black history. I had a […]
Elizabeth Pearl from South Sudan Women’s Association interviewed by Mayowa Olowoselu for Black History Month
My interview with EA was really insightful. It was wonderful to learn about how her charity has positively impacted her […]
PASCAL THEATRE COMPANY is proud to announce a £43,500 award from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund
PRESS RELEASE PASCAL THEATRE COMPANY is among 925 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the Culture […]
Samantha Pearl interviewed by Mayowa Olowoselu for Black History Month
I had a great conversation with actress Samantha Pearl, on a grey afternoon over the phone. The conversation flowed easily […]
DANCING, TALKING, TABOO – Review
In 2020, Pascal Theatre Company (PTC) put a call out to women whose lives, and mental and physical health had […]
Charlotte Salomon
by HANNAH ARNAUD Murdered 10 October 1943 at the age of 26. Charlotte Salomon, born in 1917 Berlin to a […]