8 stories by "Russ Hope"
I have a confession to make: a few years ago, I flirted with stand-up comedy. Theatremaking is collaboration;Â I love that in the job, but part of me was ready to speak in my voice for a w…
Evernote got hacked last week. To explain: Evernote is an app that lets you capture text and pictures from the internet, organise them into ‘notebooks’ and save these to the c…
Eight years ago, Phelim McDermott was in two minds: he was devoted to his craft as a theatremaker, but frustrated with the industry and with himself. He decided to stop moaning and act, and …
Think of a theatremaker you admire, really admire. Someone whose work has a strong and unique flavour, whose every show finds a new way to surprise you, punch you square in the brain, or …
Brian Clough was “the best manager England never had”, according to the caption that ends Peter Morgan's 2009 biopic The Damned United. I'd say it's a fair assessment. Clough cer…
A few months ago, my friend, the actor Jennifer Jackson, tweeted a line from a book she was reading about oil painting: Technique is a tool. It is not the whole of art, but it is a very …
The Tesla coil offers one of science's most theatrical demonstrations, sending blue forks of electricity cracking and spitting into the air. As its inventor, Nikola Tesla, packed up his …
A few weeks ago, an actor friend of mine started tweeting lines from a book she was reading. The tweets were aphorisms, the first reading that 'technique is a tool; not the whole of art,…
