Edinburgh Fringe 2019: “Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era” at Zoo Southside
Since their first understated but instantly successful visit to Edinburgh in 2008 with their...
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“The Damned”: La Comédie Française On the Barbican Stage.
Ivo Van Hove directed the theatrical adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s 1969 Nazi-era film The...
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“Three Sisters.” Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg. Vaudeville Theatre
Three Sisters was the last play Chekhov wrote in 1900, in his dacha in Yalta, and in the final...
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salt. at The Royal Court
A hit of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Selina Thompson’s one-woman show salt is on at the Royal Court...
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“Top Girls” at The National Theatre
Written only as recently as 1981, Caryl Churchill’s modern classic Top Girls has already been on...
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Homegrown: Occupy Festival
Homegrown: Occupy Festival Battersea Arts Centre March 18 – April 12 When it comes to arts venues,...
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“New Piece I: Since She”: Tanztheater Wuppertal and The Legacy of Pina Bausch
In the last ten years since the death of Pina Bausch, Tanztheater Wuppertal, the company she...
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“All About Eve” at Noel Coward Theatre
Some seventy-odd years ago, New Yorker Mary Orr wrote a short story for the Cosmopolitan magazine...
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“Hole” at The Royal Court
Dates: November 28-January 12 Writer: Ellie Kendrick Directors: Helen Goalen and Abbi...
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“The Wider Earth” at The Natural History Museum: Adapt, or die!
Less is more. When it comes to theatre-making, there is hardly a more relevant maxim than this...
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Dead Centre’s “Chekhov’s First Play”
Also known as Platonov or the Play Without A Title, Chekhov’s first playtext, written when he was...
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Bryony Kimmings’ “I Am A Phoenix, Bitch”
On Friday, March 13, 2015, the Grand Hall at Battersea Arts Centre in South London went up in...
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“Frankenstein: How To Make A Monster” at Battersea Arts Centre
Part of the Phoenix Season at the newly re-opened Grand Hall at Battersea Arts Centre is also BAC...
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“Status” by The Summerhall: “It’s Not Another Brexit Show,”
“It’s not another Brexit show,” Chris Thorpe declares as he embarks on his...
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Marguerite Duras’ “La Maladie De La Mort”: Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch Collaboration
As its title suggests, La Maladie De La Mort is not exactly an uplifting piece of theatre. In...
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“Five Easy Pieces”: Milo Rau’s Extraordinary Work About Child Murderer
It’s not often that a children’s theatre features a piece about a pedophile and child...
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Chris Goode’s “Jubilee” – The State of The (Punk) Nation
The idea here is both exquisitely complex and wonderfully simple. On the one hand, Chris Goode’s...
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“Lucy McCormick: Triple Threat” at Soho Theatre – Mad Genius at Work
There are some shows that can simply never be made by men. I don’t mean in the sense of subject...
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The Place Of A Dramaturg In Twenty-First Century England
Between 2002–2005, I carried the professional title of a Dramaturg in the UK. Even when confronted...
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“The Suppliant Women” – A New Version for Modern Times
Lizzie Clachan’s set is a simple stone floor slanting downwards towards the audience in a warm...
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