Sunday, January 14, 2018
Home, Manchester 19 micro-plays, crammed with detail, writhing with contradictions and set to the familiar pulse of Joy Division and the Smiths, try to distil the Mancunian essenceWhat defin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
York Theatre RoyalJuliet Forster’s adaptation of stories by The Railway Children’s author is cleverly designed and wittily challenges gender stereotypesYork Theatre Royal’s pantomime �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, December 18, 2017
Few pantomimes command as much loyalty – from actors and from audiences – as the York Theatre Royal’s festive offering. 2017 marks
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMThursday, December 7, 2017
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Technical trickery is cast aside for imaginative props made from bedsheets and suitcases, bringing the childlike wonder back to CS Lewis’s frosty adventureT…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMMonday, November 27, 2017
The award-winning designer talks to Catherine Love about the challenges and thrills of turning the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Quarry stage into a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMShe has turned The Simpsons into a post-apocalyptic opera, invented her own language and put on a communist Dracula pageant. Now, the US playwright is staging the creepy, late-night TV class…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMFriday, November 10, 2017
No future: Catherine Love reviews Chris Goode's furiously intelligent take on the punk movie classic.
The post Review: Jubilee at Royal Exchange, Manchester appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 12:59PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
In James Fritz’s powerful new drama, Parliament Square, an activist stands up and leaves us wondering how to take action in a broken worldJames Fritz’s new play, Parliament Square, was w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMFriday, October 6, 2017
Everyman, LiverpoolThe company’s surreal and gleefully inventive adaptation transforms the Günter Grass novel into a riot of theatre, puppetry and musicGünter Grass’s 1959 novel The Ti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMThursday, October 5, 2017
It’s a familiar story: the decline of a great but flawed man. Ibsen’s The Master Builder is one in a long line
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMFriday, September 29, 2017
It’s funny how plays morph over time. Aside from the new cast, Headlong’s touring production of People, Places and Things is pretty
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
Thatcher’s children: Catherine Love reviews a stage adaptation of Bernard Hare's Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew.
The post Review: The Shed Crew at Albion Electric Warehouse, Leeds appea…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:15AMFriday, September 22, 2017
'We have to stumble along the way and admit to our mistakes': Catherine Love reviews Testament's show about feminism and becoming a father.
The post Review: Woke at the West Yorkshire Playho…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:01AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play is a "giddily expansive" exploration of community and the passing of time.
The post Review: Our Town at Royal Exchange Manchester appeared first on Exeunt Magaz…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:53AMMonday, September 18, 2017
Catherine Love reviews Daniel Bye's new show about the "complex mix of complicity, complacency, fear and the desire to do something."
The post Review: Instructions for Border Crossing at the…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:46AMThursday, September 14, 2017
Dunbar’s bleakly funny tale of a menage a trois captured 80s austerity. What can her defiant heroines tell audiences today?‘This is life,” Andrea Dunbar told the Yorkshire Post in 1987…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMMonday, August 28, 2017
The new artistic director of London’s Gate Theatre tells Catherine Love of the importance of presenting voices that might not be heard
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMMonday, August 7, 2017
The performance artists behind Sh!t Theatre talk to Catherine Love about using goofy gags to tackle serious issues, generating material while at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFriday, July 28, 2017
The south-east London theatre company ran into trouble when the Arts Council withdrew its funding in 2008. Catherine Love finds out how
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFriday, July 21, 2017
Jim Cartwright’s brutal, beautiful play railed against the breakdown of society in Thatcher’s Britain. The original cast, and stars of the revival, explain why it speaks to us more power…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
Catherine Love on a flimsy gig-theatre exploration of the Lancashire Cotton Famine.
The post Review: Cotton Panic! at Manchester International Festival appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:30AMThe award-winning writer is known for tackling social and ethical issues and her new play Bodies is no exception. Catherine Love finds
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMonday, July 10, 2017
Returning to Reims, French sociologist Didier Eribon’s 2009 memoir, is astonishingly prescient. Eight years on, Eribon’s analysis of the rise of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMSaturday, July 8, 2017
A very British dissection of American popular culture: Catherine Love reviews a double bill of works at Flare Festival 2017.
The post Review: Castle Rock and Baardeman at Flare Festival, Ma…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:54AMThursday, July 6, 2017
Apocalypse is a running theme at this year’s Manchester International Festival. While Party Skills for the End of the World stages a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMWednesday, July 5, 2017
A pairing of the whimsical and the sinister: Catherine Love reviews an eclectic double-bill at Manchester's Flare Festival.
The post Review: ONE and Leopard Murders at Flare Festival, Manche…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:40AMMonday, July 3, 2017
Not with a bang but with a party popper: Catherine Love reviews the world premiere of Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari's immersive apocalypse show.
The post Review: Party Skills at the End of t…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:37AMSunday, June 25, 2017
York Theatre RoyalA cast of 100 takes to the streets in this ambitious drama linking the suffragette movement to the continuing struggle for social equalityFor anyone who attended one of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMMonday, June 19, 2017
Shifting the conversation from the mind to the gut: Catherine Love reviews Powder Keg's new show about climate change.
The post Review: Bears at the Royal Exchange, Manchester appeared first…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:19AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Chester’s new storytelling centre features 7,500 sq ft of floor space across four levels. Catherine Jones finds out how ambitious plans translated into
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThursday, June 1, 2017
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeThe great Staffordshire writer’s novel loses too much of its spirit in a plodding adaptationDespite his eagerness to escape the Staffordshire Potteries, Arnold…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM 
