16 stories by "Conori Bell-Bhuiyan"
Image by Robert Workman Since 2012 Kathryn O'Reilly has toured both nationally and internationally as the strong but savage Liz Morden " a total of 318 performances as the female convict …
Spanish-born, London-based choreographer Avatâra Ayuso has been dancing since she was seven. Now, at Sadler's Well in London, she's launching her own company in the UK for the first time,…
Debs Gatenby has just driven across the Yorkshire Dales and, as this interview takes place, is staying at her mum's. It's an appropriate location, givien that the topic of conversation is Hi…
Mike Bryher, Artistic Director of Dumbshow Theatre, started in theatre by doing a National Youth Theatre course when he was 16, then going back to university with a new skill set and a passi…
When Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook first met, first started considering working together, they couldn't have guessed that a simple introduction would turn into such a fruitful partnership. …
"This show is fun, highly entertaining, and very necessary. It will definitely make you laugh; it will definitely piss some people off " I expect some people to walk out… but it's sayi…
Every year Red Rose Chain Theatre Company takes theatre away from the stage and into the trees with Theatre In The Forest. Artistic Director Jo Carrick has been there since the project start…
Come June, the Junction in Cambridge will be hosting a weekend theatre festival unlike any that's come before: Night Watch will condense an entire festival's worth of new performance, the…
What happens when a Brit (Lucy Fenton) and an American (Kevin Shen) with a passion for theatre and acting come together, decide to make theatre, and star in it? Well, apparently it becomes t…
If you cast you mind back through the celebrity scandals and moral panics that have graced the newspaper headlines throughout the past few years, you may remember a story that grabbed public…
James Grieve and George Perrin have been working together since the were at university " they started their own company, Nabokov, and co-ran it together for 10 years. So when the job of Arti…
Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey was a landmark in British theatre " one of the 'kitchen sink' dramas that revolutionised theatre as an art form " and drew on issues of race, class and …
Sat at a table in an empty office floor space, Tom Morton-Smith mulls over his latest play script. The actors are taking a lunch break and the floor is divided up with squares of black tape,…
Mark Leipacher is one of The Faction. This may sound like the name of a shady secret society, but in fact, The Faction is a London-based ensemble theatre company exploring and revitalising c…
My Neck of the Woods: A live stream from the young people of Manchester, telling our stories and asking our questions. Last weekend a group of six young people " including me " took to the s…
Go wandering around a bookstore or a cinema and you'll struggle to go five minutes without seeing a film or novel that boasts the tag line "Based on a true life story! Telling stories bas…
