Award winning playwright, Paul Herzberg’s THE MOTH has now finished its tour across the North of England, receiving stellar reviews, and is now available to buy.

The Northern Arts Review gave it 5 stars and wrote “A sure sign of a remarkable and powerful play is that it stays with you, long after the curtain call. Like the moth, this play will linger and flutter in your mind”.

The Palatinate also gave THE MOTH 5 stars, writing that THE MOTH is “Theatre at its most powerful, most harrowing, and importantly – at its most necessary”.

The play stars Faz Singhateh and Mickey Cochrane and features the voice of BRIDGERTON star Adjoa Andoh. The director is Jake Murray, and the play is produced by Jake Murray, Hannah Ellis Ryan and Andy Jordan for Elysium Theatre Company.

Paul has also written about the play, and his own experiences as a conscripted soldier in the Angolan Border War, for the Anti-Apartheid Legacy.

About Paul Herzberg

Paul cut his teeth as an actor at South Africa’s first multiracial theatre, The Space. He left for the UK in 1976 following conscription into the Angolan border war, a time he’s drawn on for THE SONG OF MY FATHER (BBC Radio 4), SWEET LIKE SUGA (Old Red Lion & Centaur Montreal), his award-winning play, THE DEAD WAIT, and THE MOTH. Paul completed a post-graduate diploma at LAMDA and began working as an actor and writer in the UK in 1978.

His work as a writer encompasses theatre, radio, TV and film with several nominations and awards. THE DEAD WAIT was produced at the Market Theatre, Royal Exchange and Park Theatre and was adapted for BBC Radio 4, ABC Australia, and WDR Germany. The play was shortlisted for The Verity Bargate Award and nominated for three Manchester Evening News Awards: best play, production and actor — in which category it won. In 2000 Paul was one of two writers commissioned for The Metropolis Kabarett at The National Theatre.

His screenplay ANNA’S STORY won a place on the Brit List in 2018.

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