Paragon Theatre Collective in association with Theatre503 presents
RUNNING TIME / NOTICES: 45mins (no interval) / Contains flashing lights
A budding journalist lands a dream internship at the country’s biggest online news organization. There, he stumbles on an earth-shattering story and decides to click publish. There’s just one problem: it’s completely untrue.
A thrilling look at how the media really works – from someone who knows what it’s like behind the scenes: TV journalist & writer Osman Baig.
Osman Baig
Osman is an actor, journalist and playwright. As an actor, theatre includes: Our Big Love Story (Hope Theatre); Julius Caesar, Coriolanus (RSC); What Should I Be (Bradford Council); Richard III (Almeida Theatre & Ulysses Theatre, Croatia); Boy (Almeida Theatre); Jungly Jadoogar (Olympia London). Journalism includes staff roles at CNN, Sky News and Al Jazeera, as well as BBC News and Bloomberg. He was formerly a George Viner Scholar at City University, after graduating in Law from the Universities of Manchester and Burgundy, then training at Drama Studio London. Fake News is his first play.
Fake News listed as top ten shows to catch at the Edinburgh Fringe by The Guardian
A promising writer, Baig is indubitably good news as a performer. Such is his energetic intensity that he often seems to be delivering the entire 50 minutes in a single breath, while keeping every word clear.
