Eline Arbo’s The Years At The Harold Pinter Theatre: Nobel Prize Winner Annie Ernaux’s Book Gets A Problematic West-End Staging
Marketing is the new real. For many years, in theatre as elsewhere in society, the most important...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Feb 2025 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Marketing is the new real. For many years, in theatre as elsewhere in society, the most important...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Jan 2025 | Covid-19, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Even the best streamed theatre can’t compete with the live version. It’s simple — with this art...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jan 2025 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
Is resilience the most powerful character trait? When you think about the suffering of the...
Read MorePosted by Gonca Yalçın | 2nd Dec 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, Turkey, United Kingdom
Based on a well-loved Turkish novel by Latife Tekin, Dear Shameless Death – Dirmit by Tiyatro...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Nov 2024 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Fringe venues perform a vital role on the ecology of London theatre. While many shows at these...
Read MorePosted by Mika Eglinton | 23rd Oct 2024 | Japan, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Tattooer is a playful yet critical adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s (1886-1965) debut short...
Read MorePosted by Dave Stannard | 22nd Oct 2024 | Essay, Management, United Kingdom
Back in 2019, I decided to write a book about the Leeds Playhouse. “Why?”, my friends asked me;...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Oct 2024 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
The myth of Oedipus is so central to our psychic world that I was really surprised how many people...
Read MorePosted by Klaudia Święcicka (Klaudiusz Święcicki) | 10th Oct 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Poland, Review, United Kingdom
At this year’s Edinburgh Festival in the Grotowski Institute Residence Cube at Fringe 2024...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Oct 2024 | Books, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl evokes mixed feelings. He’s one of the greatest children’s storytellers, whose macabre...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Sep 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Although the idea of deporting people to Rwanda as a punishment is now, following the defeat of...
Read MorePosted by Kasia Lech | 7th Sep 2024 | Czech Republic, Essay, New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Theatre for Young Audiences, United Kingdom
Theatre for broadly understood young audiences (0-16 years) is one of the most important cultural...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Sep 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Adultery is the great staple of modern British playwriting. The anguish of marriage, and the...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 4th Sep 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Every year at the Edinburgh Fringe, Paines Plough, a UK touring company specialised in...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 31st Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Italy, Review, United Kingdom
New plays can derive from many sources: a vivid imagination, novels, diaries, real-life episodes,...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 31st Aug 2024 | Adaptation, Edinburgh 2024, Review, Scotland
A cast of young actors from diverse parts of the globe brought Malvolio’s Fantasy to the Space...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 29th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Review, United Kingdom
With nearly 4000 shows at hundreds of venues in the city, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a kind...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 29th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
As part of Here and Now, a new Arts Council England showcase, Tim Etchells, artistic director of...
Read MorePosted by Annette Balaam | 23rd Aug 2024 | Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom
On screen an image of worlds within worlds opens this Zoom version of Samuel Beckett’s stage play...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 19th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
The title of the play, The Amazing Doctor She Medicine Show, leaves one wondering who on earth was...
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