The Wardrobe Ensemble excels at taking specific cultural moments and unpacking them. In Education Education Education the company flashes back to 1997
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:19PMIt feels like the shape and size of VR helmet itself in part must have influenced Curious Directive’s technically innovative new devised
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMShon Dale-Jones is angry. He’s angry about the chasm that exists between rich and poor. He’s angry that the system we live
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMA woman’s breasts are not hers alone. You might think they are. They’re part of your body after all. They consist of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:52AMRebecca and Paul have gone to a remote cabin to try and salvage their relationship and do some healing after some unspecified,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:05AMDespite many nations turning in on themselves, new work at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe has opted to embrace greater understanding, tackling trans
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMEugene Ionesco’s 1959 study of mob mentality, in which the inhabitants of a town gradually start to become rhinoceroses until a single
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AMPrivilege looms large in Douglas Maxwell’s moral muddle of a play, The Whip Hand. Dougie announces, right in the middle of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMElinor Cook’s new play Out of Love is a celebration of female friendship. A close friendship can be as rich and hot
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMThere are many stories about the trans experience at this year’s fringe. The National Theatre of Scotland’s Adam, one of a pair
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMPoet and performer Jemima Foxtrot is a consistently engaging stage presence. She brightens every poetry night she’s part of and her writing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:06AMFor its first 10 minutes or so Lilith: The Jungle Girl comes across as an irritatingly flimsy pastiche reliant on over-the-top accents
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMSome shows feel as if they need to be made: that they serve a deeper purpose for the maker. Selina Thompson’s Salt
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:45AMIn the the 1960s urban planners hoped to turn Skelmersdale, an overspill town in West Lancashire, into a kind of utopia. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMHow exactly would one go about staging a Bob Dylan musical? Conor McPherson, a man who knows a thing or two about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05PMLucy Kirkwood likes to cram a lot into her plays. Mosquitoes is the story of sisters Alice and Jenny. One is a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:32AMThe Young Vic’s first production to premiere in the West End sees Australian director Benedict Andrews return to the distinctive emotional terrain of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17PMWhen not dicking around with Dickens at the Open Air Theatre, Matthew Dunster has repeatedly demonstrated that he is a director who understands
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMSo Jodie Whittaker is to be the new Doctor Who. The news was extremely cheering and it was a joy to see
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:39AMThere’s a statue of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, in front of St Paul’s. Sceptre in hand and a glum expression
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AMFor their contribution to the Manchester International Festival, playwright Simon Stephens and Frantic Assembly’s Scott Graham and composer Karl Hyde – aka
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMShakespeare’s messy and excessive early play, Titus Andronicus, poses a number of problems for directors. Tonally, it’s all over the place, at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:29PMThe charity Kids Company was founded in the 1980s to help London’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable children. Its distinctive chief executive Camila
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32PMGiven how evocative and transporting smell can be, it’s puzzling that directors don’t make more use of it. In the Sarah Kosar’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AMPoland’s Malta Festival, which came to a close on June 25, is a multi-arts festival that takes place annually in Poznan. This
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PMJames Graham’s new play Ink, about the rise of The Sun newspaper, is a fascinating study of Fleet Street as it once
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:44AMAudra McDonald is a performer of great vocal prowess and precision. A six-time Tony-winner, she has a rich, operatic voice, and in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMIsaac comes home from the war to a home in disarray. His father has suffered a debilitating stroke and his sister is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMHis performance is one of complexity, clarity and control: In its move from the Almeida to the Harold Pinter Theatre in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14PMThe cover of a recent reprint of Edna O’Brien’s first novel, The Country Girls, makes it look like any number of chick
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AMAfter 17 years in the role, David Lan is to step down as artistic director of the Young Vic. He began his
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