It’s funny how plays morph over time. Aside from the new cast, Headlong’s touring production of People, Places and Things is pretty
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMThatcher’s children: Catherine Love reviews a stage adaptation of Bernard Hare's Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew. The post Review: The Shed Crew at Albion Electric Warehouse, Leeds appea…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:15AM'We have to stumble along the way and admit to our mistakes': Catherine Love reviews Testament's show about feminism and becoming a father. The post Review: Woke at the West Yorkshire Playho…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:01AMThornton Wilder’s 1938 play is a "giddily expansive" exploration of community and the passing of time. The post Review: Our Town at Royal Exchange Manchester appeared first on Exeunt Magaz…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:53AMCatherine Love reviews Daniel Bye's new show about the "complex mix of complicity, complacency, fear and the desire to do something." The post Review: Instructions for Border Crossing at the…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:46AMDunbar’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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThe new artistic director of London’s Gate Theatre tells Catherine Love of the importance of presenting voices that might not be heard
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMThe performance artists behind Sh!t Theatre talk to Catherine Love about using goofy gags to tackle serious issues, generating material while at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThe 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 09:00AMJim 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 power…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMCatherine Love on a flimsy gig-theatre exploration of the Lancashire Cotton Famine. The post Review: Cotton Panic! at Manchester International Festival appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:30AMThe 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 06:00AMReturning to Reims, French sociologist Didier Eribon’s 2009 memoir, is astonishingly prescient. Eight years on, Eribon’s analysis of the rise of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMA very British dissection of American popular culture: Catherine Love reviews a double bill of works at Flare Festival 2017. The post Review: Castle Rock and Baardeman at Flare Festival, Ma…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:54AMApocalypse is a running theme at this year’s Manchester International Festival. While Party Skills for the End of the World stages a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMA pairing of the whimsical and the sinister: Catherine Love reviews an eclectic double-bill at Manchester's Flare Festival. The post Review: ONE and Leopard Murders at Flare Festival, Manche…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:40AMNot with a bang but with a party popper: Catherine Love reviews the world premiere of Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari's immersive apocalypse show. The post Review: Party Skills at the End of t…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:37AMYork Theatre RoyalA cast of 100 takes to the streets in this ambitious drama linking the suffragette movement to the continuing struggle for social equalityFor anyone who attended one of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMShifting the conversation from the mind to the gut: Catherine Love reviews Powder Keg's new show about climate change. The post Review: Bears at the Royal Exchange, Manchester appeared first…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:19AMChester’s new storytelling centre features 7,500 sq ft of floor space across four levels. Catherine Jones finds out how ambitious plans translated into
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMNew 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 10:42AMThe 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 07:36AMMagical-realism by way of light yet damning political critique: Catherine Love reviews Alan Harris' "strange, delicate" 2015 Bruntwood Prize-winner. The post Review: How My Life Is Spent at …
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 11:16AMIn 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. The post E…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:55AMVicki 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 09:00AMA low drone of anxiety: Catherine Love reviews El Conde de Torrefiel's show as part of Transform 17. The post Review: Guerrilla at Transform 17 appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:08AMA galvanising call to arms: Catherine Love reviews RashDash's new show as part of Transform 17. The post Review: The Darkest Corners at Transform 17 appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:26AMIt's all just a game: Catherine Love reviews machina eX’s production linking gaming and politics. The post Review: Lessons of Leaking at Transform 17 appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 11:32AMShock is their shtick: Catherine Love is at Transform 17 festival to review the UK premiere of Florentina Holzinger and Vincent Riebeek's Wellness The post Review: Wellness at Transform 17 a…
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
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