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Front Row: Playing Putin on stage in Patriots, DJ Taylor on Orwell, new V&A Photography Centre

Playing Putin on stage in Patriots, DJ Taylor on Orwell, new V&A Photography Centre

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Will Keen plays Vladimir Putin on stage in Peter Morgan's play Patriots.

Will Keen on playing Vladimir Putin on stage in Peter Morgan's play Patriots, directed by Rupert Goold. Plus DJ Taylor on his new biography of George Orwell.

Patriots, Peter Morgan’s play set in Russia in 1991, traces the rise and fall of Boris Berezovsky, who helped Vladimir Putin take power. As Patriots transfers to the West End, Allan Little – who as the BBC’s Moscow correspondent met Berezovsky – talks to the director Rupert Goold and Will Keen, winner of an Olivier Award for his performance as Vladimir Putin.   
 
The V&A Photography Centre opens this week, the largest suite of galleries in the UK dedicated to a permanent photography collection. Allan is joined by curator Marta Weiss and AI deep fake photographer Jake Elwes.

DJ Taylor won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography for his first telling of George Orwell’s life. He reveals why, twenty years later, he’s returned to the subject with the publication of Orwell: The New Life.  

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