Friday, April 6, 2018
The gravity-defying feats of contemporary circus and the weightlessness of moving through water make a good match. As performers dive through the
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Rituals of remembrance: Argentinian artist Lola Arias' exploration of the Falklands War comes to York.
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As 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 10:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Class 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 Cam…
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With his Frankenstein freshly brought to life at the Royal Exchange, the director and DJ tells Catherine Love why he's dug into
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Circle 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 11:33AM[SHARE]Liverpool 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 wit…
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Playwright and actor Amelia Bullmore has done everything from Brass Eye to Ayckbourn. She tells Catherine Love about returning to Manchester, where
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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…
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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 " featu…
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Few pantomimes command as much loyalty " from actors and from audiences " as the York Theatre Royal's festive offering. 2017 marks
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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 adventureThe…
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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 08:30AM[SHARE]She 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…
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No future: Catherine Love reviews Chris Goode's furiously intelligent take on the punk movie classic.
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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 writt…
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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 Tin Dr…
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It’s a familiar story: the decline of a great but flawed man. Ibsen’s The Master Builder is one in a long line
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It'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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Thatcher's children: Catherine Love reviews a stage adaptation of Bernard Hare's Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:15AM[SHARE]Friday, 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.
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Thornton Wilder's 1938 play is a "giddily expansive" exploration of community and the passing of time.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:53AM[SHARE]Monday, 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."
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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, defe…
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The new artistic director of London's Gate Theatre tells Catherine Love of the importance of presenting voices that might not be heard
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The performance artists behind Sh!t Theatre talk to Catherine Love about using goofy gags to tackle serious issues, generating material while at
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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 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 powerfull…
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Catherine Love on a flimsy gig-theatre exploration of the Lancashire Cotton Famine.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:30AM[SHARE]The 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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
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