With 300 shows, Vault Festival was a sprawling, multifaceted and gloriously eclectic event. The Stage sent Fergus Morgan to cover the event
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMIt’s like a kind of reverse, simian version of The Metamorphosis. Turner Prize-winning painter Simon Dykes (an anxiety-ridden Bryan Dick) wakes up
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:08AMWhen the audience becomes a part of the production, how do you avoid chaos? The crew responsible for running Nicholas Hytner’s promenade
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMOne-woman shows don’t come much more visceral than this. Jodi Gray’s Big Bad, directed here by Deirdre McLaughlin, sees a solo performer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMThe third and final show from theatre company Joyous Gard at this year’s festival, David K Barnes’ and Michael Milne’s Timothy is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AMNo one mentions the name, but we all know what this is about – a taxi-hailing app, that’s revolutionised transportation, growing from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMPIP and petty crime: Chris Collett reviews a moving double bill at Newcastle's Elevator Festival. The post Review: Spoon Theory and Rat Boy at Live Theatre, Newcastle appeared first on Exeun…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 09:09AMA selection of international playwrights has been commissioned, using a $5 million fund from Amazon audiobook giant Audible, to write new plays
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AMBr’er Cotton has got all the right ingredients. A bold new voice in American playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, a timely subject, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMVault Festival finally comes to a close this Sunday, after two weird and wacky months underneath Waterloo. Here are five shows not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMWith 2016 show Still Ill, collaborative collective Kandinsky explored the paradoxical pressures of psychosomatic illness with insight and intelligence. With Trap Street,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMRedBellyBlack picked up a people’s choice award at the 2017 Vault Festival for A Year From Now, a show that explored ambition
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:34AMTatty Hennessy’s A Hundred Words for Snow was the pick of a triple-bill of monologues presented by Heretic Productions at the Arcola
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMHermetic Arts’ new show Unburied wrongfoots you from the off. It presents itself as a podcast recording. Last night, show host Carrie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:13AMRufus Norris’ National regime was marred by several high-profile flops in the Olivier last year. Salome, Common and Saint George and the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PMGoing Greene: Bryony Lavery's new adaptation of Brighton Rock is unsettling and menacing. The post Review: Brighton Rock at the Theatre Royal Brighton appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:00AMWhat’ll it be? Oh, a pint, a packet of peanuts and a great big slice of Jim Cartwright please, mate. Cartwright’s 1989
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMAnother week, another uber-long play on one of London’s biggest stages. After Annie Baker’s John at the National and Eugene O’Neill’s Long
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AMAs London’s Vault Festival moves into its penultimate week, Fergus Morgan picks out five highlights to catch… A Hundred Words for Snow Tatty
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIn 1973, in the West Germany town of Würzburg, there was a murder. Or so Bête Noire Productions’ painstakingly put-together docudrama Father
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PMWound Up Theatre takes the terror out of terrorism with this delightfully drawn two-hander featuring a captured British soldier and a gun-toting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMTime for some noughties nostalgia. Emma Pritchard and songwriter-comedian Tamar Broadbent’s new play Split follows the growth of two high-school girls’ friendship
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:13AMChristopher William Hill’s comedy Clockwork Canaries is weird. And not in a good way. In a disconcerting and dispiriting way. In the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMFergus Morgan interviews the enigmatic West End director about star casting, commercial theatre, and the post-Weinstein landscape. The post Lindsay Posner: “I either had the choice of …
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 02:24AMAs the Vault Festival 2018 nears the home stretch, Fergus Morgan picks out five more shows that will definitely be worth seeing…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMHaving worked her way up through national and regional directors’ schemes, Rebecca Frecknall is about to open her second production of Tennessee
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMIt’s a tragedy. London is swamped by hordes of young Disney fans, dressed in pale blue Elsa gowns, clutching precious tickets in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMJames Huntrods’ new play, Cause, staged by director Lucy Jane Atkinson, is a neat, nuanced three-handed exploring that age-old tug-of-war between principles
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMCharles Hatfield made it rain. Or at least he claimed he could, travelling around the USA in the early 1900s, offering his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMLike around a third of the female population, Fran Bushe suffers from female sexual dysfunction. For her, sex has always been tricky,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:51AMI tried to engage, I really did, but Nik Wakefield’s solo show Air Time is one of those performance art pieces that
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