41 stories by "Billy Barrett"
AIDs, drugs, fabulous clothes and a bad father-son relationship. Sound familiar? Anthony Bull’s Mirrorball relies on every gay cliché in the well-worn book, as Terry (James Moore) med…
“He doesn’t like to be interrupted,” I’m told before entering the RSC’s Ashcroft Room to sit in on rehearsals for its interactive project, A Midsummer NightR…
I have to say that I walked into this piece, a one-woman, one-dog show from Brighton-based artist Victoria Melody, with some trepidation. The intimate venue, slightly interactive format and …
Billy Barrett talks to Declan Donellan of Cheek by Jowl as Ubu Roi arrives at the Barbican this week.The post “All the art I do is about life”: An interview with Declan Donellan …
“Movies are a world of fragments”, reads a quote from Jean-Luc Godard in the programme of imitating the dog's multimedia piece, The Zero Hour. Those familiar with Godard's work m…
“We hope that you're happy,” we are told repeatedly in Made in China's 50-minute touring show that originated at the BAC. As a rule, any piece of theatre that gives out popcorn b…
Headlong's Medea, directed and written by Mike Bartlett after Euripedes, dispenses with the suits and minimalism favoured by most contemporary stagings of the tragedies. Instead, the action …
Forced Entertainment's last show, Void Story, was a dramatised radio play. By this, I mean the actors actually sat at tables onstage, speaking into microphones in different voices with no 'a…
“Drama”, Edward Bond once said, “is not theatre”. There's little theatricality in either of his two new plays, written for young people and commissioned by Theatre in…
With new show Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery currently touring, Scott Graham of Frantic Assembly talks boxing, going for gold and being Frantic.
Frantic Assembly's Beautiful Burnout, a co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland, debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of the Pleasance Courtyard's 2010 season; a recast and re…
A date in a wine bar, a job interview, a group of colleagues taking a break with a magazine; put your fingers in your ears during Chris Goode & Company's Monkey Bars and you'd think it w…
Babakas's interdisciplinary performance Our Fathers, an exploration of fatherhood encompassing dance, audience interaction and live music, was originally conceived by the company during a re…
The stars of the Planet of the Apes franchise have spoken about having to attend 'ape school' to acquire the physicality of primates for the films, which are hardly known for their accurate …
“How much do you normally pay to go to the theatre?” Hannah Ringham asks her audience " half-full at best " around halfway through Glen Neath's interactive play Hannah Ringham's …
Stan's Café, a collective based in the west Midlands, points east in its latest touring show The Cardinals, an “abbreviated and extrapolated” visual performance of the Bible. Th…
