Thursday, 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 10:42AMThursday, May 25, 2017
The Zimbabwe-born writer found her passion for words as a teenager in Yorkshire. Her new play, Ode to Leeds, explores its in-your-face poetry sceneHome is a complicated idea. The Yorkshire-b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMCrucible, SheffieldRobert Hastie’s electric staging, with Jonathan Hyde and Samuel West, offers a resonant take on the manipulative power of rhetoric There’s a moment in Robert Hastie’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Magical-realism by way of light yet damning political critique: Catherine Love reviews Alan Harris' "strange, delicate" 2015 Bruntwood Prize-winner.
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In her Grief Series, Ellie Harrison explores mourning in a seven-part cycle of artworks. Here, she talks reinventing rituals, and how art can be therapeutic without being therapy.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:55AMFriday, April 28, 2017
Vicki Amedume has an unusual career trajectory. The founder and artistic director of circus company Upswing studied pharmacology at the University of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMMonday, April 24, 2017
A low drone of anxiety: Catherine Love reviews El Conde de Torrefiel's show as part of Transform 17.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:08AMSunday, April 23, 2017
A galvanising call to arms: Catherine Love reviews RashDash's new show as part of Transform 17.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:26AMFriday, April 21, 2017
It's all just a game: Catherine Love reviews machina eX’s production linking gaming and politics.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 11:32AMThursday, April 20, 2017
Shock is their shtick: Catherine Love is at Transform 17 festival to review the UK premiere of Florentina Holzinger and Vincent Riebeek's Wellness
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 11:32AMAbbi Greenland, one half of RashDash, thinks the theatre company “works best when we feel like we’re rogue agents”. The duo’s work
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThursday, March 30, 2017
How to solve the problem of touring is a question the theatre sector has been grappling with for years. One initiative is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThursday, March 23, 2017
The artistic director of Boundless Theatre – formerly known as Company of Angels – speaks to Catherine Love about dramaturgy, telling stories
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMMonday, March 20, 2017
A new play spotlights the era when female players were sidelined by the FA and shows they are still kicking against prejudice todayIn 1921, the Football Association ruled the sport “quite …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMThursday, March 16, 2017
Poet, playwright and performer Inua Ellams is touring An Evening With an Immigrant while working on Barber Shop Chronicles, his third show
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMThursday, March 2, 2017
Sophie Melville’s laughter is coloured with disbelief. “I can’t get my head around it,” she admits. She is fresh from being nominated
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThursday, February 23, 2017
Palace theatre, Manchester Smith is never less than astonishing as she kicks off a UK tour of the musical based on Fanny Brice’s rollercoaster vaudeville life“That’s where I live, on s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMMonday, February 20, 2017
Video technology has been influencing theatre for decades, but never has it been easier or cheaper to incorporate into productions. Today, video
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Adaptation and revival are two of theatre’s mainstays. The staging of old stories for new audiences is something at which theatre-makers are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:03AMTuesday, December 27, 2016
His plays examine parenthood (Lungs), depression (Every Brilliant Thing) and climate change (2071). The motivation, says Duncan Macmillan, is to say something that isn’t being said“There…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06AMThursday, December 8, 2016
Writer and director Alexander Zeldin is best known for Beyond Caring, his play about a group of cleaners working on zero-hours contracts.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThursday, December 1, 2016
It’s the time of year that brings people together – whether they like it or not. Three playwrights explain why this is the season for tales of regret and despair‘Christmas is ripe for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMThursday, July 7, 2016
Her debut, Wink, looked at modern masculinity. Now Phoebe Eclair-Powell is celebrating womanhood with her play-cum-gig Torch. She talks about her trio of new shows and why she couldn’t be …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMFriday, June 10, 2016
There’s more than a hint of the fairytale to Kneehigh. Ask people about the company and they use words such as “magic”
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMMonday, May 16, 2016
Will Adamsdale describes himself, with very British modesty, as “an enthusiastic amateur”. The writer, performer and theatremaker has certainly been eager to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFriday, May 13, 2016
Artist development is a little too sedate, suggests the New Diorama Theatre’s artistic and executive director David Byrne. “We should be the most
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThursday, April 7, 2016
Fevered Sleep’s show features men dancing tenderly with young girls. Its creators explain how they convinced parents it wasn’t creepy, but a celebration of a relationship tainted by the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01AMSunday, March 13, 2016
In her new show, Made Visible, Deborah Pearson questions racial and cultural stereotypes. Theatre’s lack of diversity, she says, is an issue for everyone to tackle. Staying silent is not a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:22PMFriday, March 4, 2016
If there’s one thing that defines Told by an Idiot, it is collaboration. “I still hold with the notion that theatre is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PMThursday, February 25, 2016
Jack Thorne’s The Solid Life of Sugar Water and a revival of Gogol’s The Government Inspector are among new accessible productions enriching the experience for audiences through design a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:57AMThursday, December 10, 2015
Arriving at Jerwood Space to interview John Heffernan, I’m nervous about using the ‘M’ word. The actor is rehearsing to play Macbeth
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AM 
