EPISODE · Aug 14, 2023 · 25 MIN
Margaret Thanos director of A Very Expensive Poison
from Backstage · host Regina Botros
Margaret joins Regina to explore this award winning play based on true events. Margaret Thanos is an award-winning Cypriot-Australian director and actor for theatre and film, based in London. THE PLAY:- London, 2006. A brazen political assassination is carried out in broad daylight. Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, drinks green tea laced with radioactive poison. Subsequent investigations uncover a conspiracy generated from the very heart of the Russian government, and a murder probably approved by President Vladimir Putin. In this award-winning play, based on the facts as laid out by the investigative journalist Luke Harding in his book of the same name, acclaimed writer Lucy Prebble tells a complex story of espionage and mystery. Playing at the NEW THEATRE till 16th September.
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Margaret joins Regina to explore this award winning play based on true events. Margaret Thanos is an award-winning Cypriot-Australian director and actor for theatre and film, based in London. THE PLAY:- London, 2006. A brazen political assassination is carried out in broad daylight. Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, drinks green tea laced with radioactive poison.Subsequent investigations uncover a conspiracy generated from the very heart of the Russian government, and a murder probably approved by President Vladimir Putin.In this award-winning play, based on the facts as laid out by the investigative journalist Luke Harding in his book of the same name, acclaimed writer Lucy Prebble tells a complex story of espionage and mystery. Playing at the NEW THEATRE till 16th September.
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