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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Review: Screens, Theatre 503 by Richard Pettifer

Recently there has been much said about the right to human mobility, with little of it in defence. As the global movement of people responds in quantity to mass suffering and destabilisation…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:16AM

Friday, December 11, 2015

Blog: The Playwright versus Climate Change by Richard Pettifer

Taking part over the course of COP21, the Climate Change Theater Action is a series of curated short plays from global writers co-curated by Chantel Bilodeau, Caridad Svich and Elaine Avila.…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:50AM

Friday, August 22, 2014

Guest blog: Edinburgh flyer-free on Sunday by Richard Pettifer

Maybe the weirdest outcome of theatre – and the most difficult to articulate – is what’s called ‘normalisation’. Theatre generates a lot of behaviours by making them s…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:29PM

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Feature: Competitive advantage – International Performance Festival Cardiff by Richard Pettifer

I was a participant in a new festival in Cardiff called the International Performance Festival Cardiff, which brought an odd mixture of performance and arts from across the world together in…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:59AM

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Blog: Theatertreffen round-up by Richard Pettifer

Anyone with a passing interest in German Theatre knows Theatertreffen (‘Theatre Meeting’), the biggest event on the German theatre calendar. For those who don’t, here’s a brief intro…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:43AM

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Blog: Theatre should not talk about climate change by Richard Pettifer

Theatre is a life-affirming medium that involves people coming together in a social space and sharing experience. This does not naturally lend itself to climate change, an anti-social subjec…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:08AM

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Guest blog: Wandering Hanger Theatre Festival (Ukraine) by Richard Pettifer

The words “amateur theatre” inspire dread across the Anglo-Saxon world, but in the East, it just means you aren’t getting regular pay cheques from a professional company. It doesn’t …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:02AM

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Review: Macbeth, Little Angel Theatre by Richard Pettifer

Many seem to miss the fact that Macbeth is pretty far-fetched. Sometimes our understanding of supernatural elements borders on the mundane: ‘Of course a dagger appears out of nowhere. Of c…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42PM

Review: The Act, Ovalhouse Theatre by Richard Pettifer

The Sexual Offences Act (1967) was passed by the British government to give partial liberty to individuals wanting to have homosexual sex. It decriminalised homosexual acts of no more than t…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:28PM

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Feature: The theatre maker and the institution by Richard Pettifer

If you look back over theatre history, there is an interesting contradiction which emerges: almost all of the ground-breaking innovators in theatre history are in some way anti-institutional…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:01AM

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