"Why can’t I perform without the pressure to represent an entire culture or make a jaw-dropping statement on diversity?" Nicole Acquah writes on the difficulties of being politicised as a …
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 01:32AMAs 42nd Street continues to dazzle the West End, Alice Saville asks why Busby Berkeley's legacy is still bulletproof. The post The Allure of the Uniform appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:10AMTen years after last seeing Tony Kushner's epic play cycle (and writing a PhD thesis on it) Emily Garside writes on why going to the NT's Angels in America feels like coming home. The post A…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:58AMAlice Saville responds to an influx of complaints regarding Exeunt's review of the Royal Ballet's Mayerling. The post In Defence of Exeunt’s Mayerling Review appeared first on Exeunt M…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:27AMThe trauma of Ireland’s troubles is played out between two siblings in David Ireland's emotionally intense drama. The post Review: Everything Between Us at Finborough Theatre appeared firs…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:57AMPain and pleasure: Louise Orwin's solo performance is a powerful, uneasy look at the trouble with sex positivity. The post Review: Oh Yes, Oh No at Camden People’s Theatre appeared fir…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:58AMFrom 19th century revolutionary Paris to the Black Lives Matter movements: Nemo Martin explores how Victor Hugo's story of protest is being reimagined by online fans. The post Les Miserables…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:07AMPolitics and pain: Nic Green's performance is an artful exploration of rhetoric and deceit. The post Review: Cock and Bull at Southbank Centre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:49AMFollowing the launch of The Bridge, a venture capital-funded space helmed by Nicholas Hytner, Alice Saville asks why London's new theatres are looking to the past, not the future. The post A…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:29AMEdward Albee's play is "a wonderfully complex exploration of the boundaries of sexual freedom". The post Review: The Goat at Theatre Royal Haymarket appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 01:14AMA muddled adaptation of Leonora's surrealist novel in Peckham's new theatre space. The post Review: The Hearing Trumpet at Theatre Delicatessen, Peckham appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 12:43AM'The Privileged' uses a furry polar bear suit to confront racism head on. Alice Saville chats to Jamal Harewood about audience reactions, game theatre, and his new performance 'Word'. The po…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 02:03AM"There's a huge culture of people from working class backgrounds feeling inadequate within the arts." Catherine Hoffman explains how shame keeps people powerless, and how her performance as …
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:26AMJoan is a fiercely brilliant, drag king take on medieval history. Alice Saville chats to its creator Lucy J. Skilbeck about queer politics, Milk Presents, and why theatre should follow drag'…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 01:35AMThere's a long history of same-sex romance between women being exploited as a male fantasy. Naomi Westerman talks about rejecting the male gaze, and her new play Puppy. The post Queer women…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:12PMScottee's new show Bravado is an unsparing look at his relationship with masculinity. Here, he looks at confessional performance, self care, and asks "Must all working class artists bleed fo…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:56AMAs cinema, TV broadcasts and online streaming offer more and more ways to watch performance, Alice Saville asks why the theatre world is so slow to embrace the potential of film. The post Wh…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:51PMLe Gateau Chocolat must be one of the hardest working men in cabaret. But, he insists: “My whole career was a wonderful
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMForget confetti cannons, soap stars and glitter-encrusted backdrops: Hackney Empire’s acclaimed in-house panto has long seduced critics with a mixture of streetwise
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMYour two previous plays for the Royal Court have had modern settings: Kin was set in a girls’ boarding school, while Hero looked
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAcross the city, people are troubled by nightmares, each with a horribly personal symbolism of their own; their only hope being Txema Pérez, this piece’s eponymous dreamer. A drifter …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:49PMThere are certain things that we expect from vampires: they must drink blood, fear light, be immortal and be killed by a stake through the heart. However, new elaborations are gathering like…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:31AMThe setting is a drawing room, idyllic fields beyond conjured by printed screens, but Stanley Houghton’s play casts out the afternoon world of tea and scones for a whisky-fuelled criticism…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:38PMWhat can we do if people treat us inhumanely? This is the question posed by Jonathan Salt’s new play, and the answer he finds is: we must be more than human. This biopic of Janusz Korczak,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:28PMLife is unbearable, but drugs are a ‘chemical lobotomy’; Sarah Kane’s work is caught in a dilemma of pathologised grief, pill bottles and troubled relationships, messily expressing the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18AMYvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre’s production of The Wind in the Willows is a deeply traditional affair. No concessions are made to the teenage years of the participants; there are no rock song…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:43AMNo one could accuse Max and Ivan of lacking ambition. Following a successful go at the Sherlock Holmes juggernaut last year, they’ve launched themselves into the world of the heist blockbu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15AMLooking inside the mind of a teenage boy isn’t always the most attractive prospect; this bright new musical by Dougal Irvine uses high-octane sequences of song and dance to shed light on t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09AMAs tourists wander Edinburgh’s Royal Mile clutching Nessie ornaments and tartan tea towels, there’s a rather more nuanced reaction to Scottish folk traditions taking place in Elspeth Tur…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:25PMWhen they said ‘black comedy’ I thought they meant the play, not finding a seat. In this production of Jean Genet’s The Maids, lighting design leaves the audience in almost complete da…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:47AMStaging an Ibsen play which the playwright disowned in later life as a reworking of a student acquaintance’s “rough mess of a draft” might seem like asking for trouble. Spo…
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