Everyman, LiverpoolWith a cacophonous cast of characters, Robert Farquhar’s new take on Peer Gynt dashes through the second half of the 20th centuryThe spirit of ensemble, an idea at the h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMYork Theatre RoyalA keen young player bonds with his mum on the way to a big match in Tutti Frutti’s imaginative kids’ showAs England pursue World Cup glory, the hero of Tutti Frutti’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMVenues in Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield are putting work by refugees and asylum seekers at their heartIn 2013, West Yorkshire Playhouse staged Refugee Boy, an adaptation of Benjamin Zephan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMScarcroft Allotments, YorkMikron’s show about East End women’s sacrifices for suffrage awkwardly seesaws between parody and sincerityMikron aim to make theatre for everyone, so it’s ap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMAs a sound designer and composer Isobel Waller-Bridge works across stage and screen. She tells Catherine Love about the skills theatre has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMRoyal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Beckett’s tragicomedy is deftly retuned for an age of ecological anxiety and mounting plastic wasteCentre stage, a barren mound of earth. At its edges, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWhen RashDash wanted to move up in scale, artistic directors advised the company to tackle a classic. Three Sisters – irreverently exploiting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMHaving examined the hothouse environment of British schooling from students’ perspectives in A Level Playing Field, the second of Jonathan Lewis’ trilogy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:58AMHow can women or people of colour find a voice in theatre’s classics when so much of the canon - written by white men - confines them to the sidelines? Meet the theatre makers who are rein…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsFeaturing 18 tracks by the Scottish duo, this spirited show is a thing of joy. By the time I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) comes on, resistance is futileWhisper it,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMEveryman, LiverpoolPeppered with the novelist’s own songs, this musical makeover of Anthony Burgess’s classic finds plenty of contemporary resonancesA Clockwork Orange was the story Anth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMManchester is a city known and celebrated for its music. Honouring that musical heritage, the Royal Exchange Young Company – winner of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:05AMThe gravity-defying feats of contemporary circus and the weightlessness of moving through water make a good match. As performers dive through the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMRituals of remembrance: Argentinian artist Lola Arias' exploration of the Falklands War comes to York. The post Review: Minefield at York Theatre Royal appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:50AMAs Red Ladder celebrates its half-centenary, the Leeds-based company’s artistic director and producer tell Catherine Love how the company has evolved while focusing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:47AMClass is often absent from discussions about diversity in theatre but it remains a barrier for audiences, actors and others in the industry. What’s the solution?In 1979, giving a talk at C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMWith his Frankenstein freshly brought to life at the Royal Exchange, the director and DJ tells Catherine Love why he’s dug into
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMCircle Mirror Transformation is a drama of accumulation. Annie Baker’s slow, delicate play deposits character layer by miniscule layer, like silt collecting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMLiverpool EverymanThis smart version of the rarely performed Lerner and Loewe musical subverts the dodgy gender politicsLerner and Loewe’s rarely performed Paint Your Wagon is synonymous w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMPlaywright and actor Amelia Bullmore has done everything from Brass Eye to Ayckbourn. She tells Catherine Love about returning to Manchester, where
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMHome, 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 07:47AMYork 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 02:12AMFew 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 05:10AMWest 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 09:24AMThe 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 02:12AMNo 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 12:59PMIn 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 01:48AMEveryman, 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 08:04AMIt’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 06:44AMIt’s funny how plays morph over time. Aside from the new cast, Headlong’s touring production of People, Places and Things is pretty
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