33 stories by "James Jackson"
Mein Kampf, written by Hungarian playwright George Tabori in 1987, examines a moment in history, namely, the existential calm before the onslaught of the Nazi regime " the calm before the st…
David Mamet's American Buffalo was one of his first works written in 1975 and opening on Broadway in 1977. It examines the dissatisfaction of existing within a high capitalist society and re…
Written by Yve Blake, MKA’s Sugar Sugar delineates the journey of a young woman as she shifts from adolescence into adulthood. This manifests as a downward spiral into a bulimia tha…
In all its postmodern (or is that post-post?) glory, The Defence is a show about the cultural objectification of women, explicitly framed within a rehearsal room. Written by Chris Dunstan, T…
Written by MKA’s Tobias Manderson-Galvin, Thank You, Thank You Love is a collection of five short plays that have a chaotic and brutal energy. The vivid beauty of the language and i…
Performed in the enormous space of The Substation in Newport, Swamp Juice is a shadow puppetry show assembled from the refuse and junk of our disposable society. Created by Bunk Puppets and …
Sitting between performance art and cabaret, Mark Wilson's one-man-woman-man piece is contentious, provocative and arresting. Presented as part of MKA's Hyprtxt Festival, Unsex Me looks at L…
MKA: Theatre of New Writing's new festival HYPRTXT opens with a work that spans multiple thematic fields. At the heart of Like a Fishbone is a story about how we immortalise traumatic events…
