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Taking sensitive approach to tale of teenage grief

NEW musical King of Pangea shows how Jewish teenager Sam Crow processes the death of his mother by escaping to his imaginary childhood island. Writer Martin Storrow based it on his own experiences of watching his mother spend 12 years fighting an illness which eventually took her life.

But director Richard Israel wanted to show that while the musical — being staged at London’s King’s Head Theatre — deals with loss, it’s the story of Sam learning to live again.

Richard first came across the show in 2019 as a member of the Foundation for New American Musicals in Los Angeles which would invite writers to present material from works in progress.

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