Thursday, December 10, 2015
Arriving at Jerwood Space to interview John Heffernan, I’m nervous about using the ‘M’ word. The actor is rehearsing to play Macbeth
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMMonday, December 7, 2015
Penelope Skinner asks me: “Do we believe that women in general are hungry for stories about them?” The writer, whose plays have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFriday, December 4, 2015
Tobacco Factory, BristolThe messiness is part of the joy in this knowingly shambolic take on George MacDonald’s story about a princess cursed to float in the airThe Light Princess is havin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AMThursday, December 3, 2015
Bristol Old VicSally Cookson’s production is a playful retelling of the classic tale that blends WI fairy godmothers with bewigged panto baddiesFairytales have long been fair game for tran…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:10AMBristol Old Vic Little Bulb’s motley cast of rabbits, badgers, frogs and a unicorn bring silliness and wonder to the festive seasonIf you go down to the woods today, Little Bulb have a big…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:10AMWednesday, November 25, 2015
Camden People’s theatre, LondonThis colourful account of the rappers’ rise to the heights of pop stardom brims with hyperactive enthusiasmWhen the Beastie Boys’ album Licensed to Ill w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AMSunday, November 22, 2015
The Pit at the Barbican, LondonNigel Barrett and Louise Mari ask what really makes us human in an age of artificial intelligence with a show that engages of your sensesTheatre rarely engages…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:15AMTuesday, November 17, 2015
Temporary theatre, LondonWils Wilson turns Jon Klassen’s laconic picture book into a boisterous delight of a show that keeps no secrets about the land of make-believe from its audience The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AMMonday, September 28, 2015
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonGugu Mbatha-Raw’s joyful performance is at the centre of this rowdy comedy, which celebrates the artifice of theatre and makes some neat political jabsThe firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMSaturday, September 5, 2015
“I’m bad at being told what to do,” says Rory Mullarkey with a grin. The playwright, raised in a military family, quickly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMTuesday, May 19, 2015
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 09:00AMMonday, May 18, 2015
Felbrigg 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 07:43AMSunday, May 17, 2015
Britain and Germany have never felt closer. At least, British and German theatre cultures – often defined as polar opposites – are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMonday, May 11, 2015
Olivia 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 07:05AMThursday, May 7, 2015
Beamed 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 05:23AMFriday, May 1, 2015
Nature 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 11:38AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
The 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 03:15PMTuesday, March 24, 2015
Binaural 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 10:00AMThursday, November 20, 2014
A 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 02:30AMMonday, October 13, 2014
Part 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 10:25AMTuesday, September 23, 2014
His 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 03:00AMThursday, June 26, 2014
For 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 11:21AMSunday, June 8, 2014
(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 11:39PMTuesday, June 3, 2014
Staged 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 02:40AMSaturday, May 17, 2014
The 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 04:00AMFriday, April 25, 2014
Wolf 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 07:31AMMonday, April 7, 2014
With 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 03:30AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
The 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 06:15AMTuesday, July 9, 2013
As 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 05:30AMFriday, April 19, 2013
Playwrights take the reins at the Royal Court.
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Performance exploring the concept of faith.
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