Paul Barritt, animator and co-artistic director of theatre company 1927, is frank about the challenges of using projection onstage. “Ask anyone who’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFelbrigg Hall, NorwichNature is the real star in Bill Mitchell’s WildWorks production, in which a murder of crows tells the tale of a young girl’s journey in the wild Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMBritain and Germany have never felt closer. At least, British and German theatre cultures – often defined as polar opposites – are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMOlivia Poulet has a good line in peddling the unpalatable. The actor and writer is best known for her role as pragmatic,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMBeamed by news channels and available at the click of a mouse, brutality is all around us – and playwrights are exploring audiences’ disgust and titillation Greg Wohead’s theatre show …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:23AMNature plays a leading role in a number of productions this month at the Brighton festival and the Norfolk & Norwich festivalAcross the South Downs, on Brighton beach and deep in the woo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38AMThe ordinary and the extraordinary are combined in a show that tells the real-life stories of six people who stood up for what they believe inOxford’s residents have a history of taking a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15PMBinaural sound technology is nothing new. The technique of binaural recording, which creates the sensation of 3D sound for those listening through
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMA mother finds out she has two sets of DNA – and her son is really her nephew – in a new play about genetics and motherhood by Deborah Stein and Suli Holum Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AMPart polemic and part love letter, the monologue Spine responds to library closures. Its about the freedom of learning, says its playwright, but its also a personal narrative of the austerit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMHis plays examine parenthood (Lungs), depression (Every Brilliant Thing) and climate change (2071). The motivation, says Duncan Macmillan, is to say something that isnt being said Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMFor 60 years, shoemaker Ab Solomons drew pictures of his wife Celie on his wage slips. The performance Wot? No Fish!! gives voice to the ups and downs of their livesIt's hard to imagine a mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21AM(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon, curated by Caridad Svich.) Increasingly, works of contemporary art and theatre …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:39PMStaged in a car park, Requardt and Rosenberg's latest work explores the relationship between gamer and avatar In pictures: Explore The RoofIn an age of screens, avatars and online anonymity,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:40AMThe RSC actor on the moral ambiguity of Mantel's Tudor world and the thrill of bringing her Wolf Hall books to the West End Michael Billington's review of Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies Mark …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMWolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are tranferring to the West End after a successful RSC Stratford run. Jeremy Herrin talks about the job of dramatising 1,000 pages of historical intrigue an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMWith Roald Dahl's streak of naughtiness meshed with Tim Minchin's excellent lyrics, Matilda is a match made in an eight-year-old's idea of heavenIn a recent episode of Outnumbered, a headmis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AMThe Gavin and Stacey and Harry Potter actor on starring in a new comedy about Goya, Madrid and the meaning of life – with a pair of pigs as co-starsOn the tiny stage of Notting Hill's Gate…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15AMAs he prepares to take PEEP up to the Edinburgh Fringe again, Donnacadh O’Briain talks to Catherine Love about self-censorship, voyeurism and what audiences can expect from this yea…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:30AMPlaywrights take the reins at the Royal Court. The post Vicky Featherstone Unveils Open Court Festival appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:29AMPerformance exploring the concept of faith. The post The Yard Presents Festival of Performance appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:24AMIn a society that feels constantly under the microscope, both protected and oppressed by the glare of CCTV cameras, it is not surprising that George Orwell’s grim dystopian vision continue…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PMThe writing of Jonathan Safran Foer wrestles to be released from the page. Unravelling itself in drawings, symbols and mutated forms, it seems bitterly discontented with the limited medium i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:13AMIt is not often that, upon walking into a theatre, you are asked to reveal your heart’s desire. In transforming Angela Carter’s sensual reimagining of the Little Red Riding Hood story fo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:25PMAs hinted at by the title, the theme of Joe Penhall’s play is unspectacular, as familiar as its triangular set up. Stressed young doctors Neal and Rachel are struggling to shield the flick…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:21PMCharity is never as simple as just giving. It’s certainly not that simple for Joe, a typical gap year traveller who finds himself engaged in a very atypical act of charity following a trip…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:05PMAs consummate storyteller Frances Hodgson Burnett recognised, stories make us feel alive. The best stories can haunt the senses and quicken the heart – an adrenalin shot to the imagination…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:58PMDespite its very specific setting in the Lebanon hostage crisis of the 1980s, there is something timelessly truthful about Frank McGuiness’ play. The piece depicts the plight of three capt…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:10PMIn interpreting Angela Carter’s short story, itself already an interpretation of the classic folktale of Bluebeard, 3Bugs have set themselves a formidable challenge. Any reimagining of a w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:11PMThe hostage situation is both an inherently dramatic and an inherently static scenario. Suspense springs from the central jeopardy of the unanswered, life-or-death question: will these priso…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33PMThe short stories of Edgar Allan Poe are the stuff that nightmares are made of, so it is fitting that Backhand Theatre have taken an approach to his tales that embraces the Gothic aesthetic …
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