About “The Elephant in the Room”
Online performance, streamed instead of attended, has given theatre companies an immense amount of...
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“Let Them Do Yeats Next!:” “AURIC” At The Brighton Fringe
AURIC (Songs from a Golden Age) at the Brighton Fringe is a unique aural journey and experience...
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“Tarantula” at the Southwark Playhouse
I think I can safely say that polymath playwright Philip Ridley has had a good lockdown. In March...
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Spotlight on “Pale Sister”: On Lighting in Digital Theatre
Pale Sister is the latest adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone (c. 441 BC), written by...
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Be Creative with Your Videoconferencing, Make it Memorable, Make a Difference
On the 21st March 2020, I put out a simple message on my Facebook profile in response to the...
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About “Saving Britney”: Prologue
Uncertainty can sometimes provoke creativity. When the opening of Shereen Roushbaiani’s one-woman...
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About “The Separation”
The camera can take you to places where the naked eye rarely goes. Like close. Very close. Close...
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About “Mum. Can You Hear Me?”
Over the past year we’ve become used to a variety of home theatre: recordings of live...
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Mark Ravenhill’s “Angela” on The Sound Stage
Does a subjective theatre piece encourage a subjective critical response? I think it might,...
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“The Other Solos, Shakespeare:” Brexit, Shakespeare, and Foreign Voices
Today, 23rd of April 2021, is the 405 anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. In two months, on...
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West End Scene: London’s Trafalgar Theatre to Open with “Jersey Boys”
Trafalgar Entertainment’s Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire are leading theatre...
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“Manimals” and the Exploration of Digital Liveness
Manimals, created by Michelle Hudson and her team, shines as a piece that accomplishes the difficult taste of engaging audiences across the computer screen.
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5 Reasons Why Verse Is the Language for Theatre in 2020s
While theatre in its early days existed in a strong relationship with verse, the social, cultural,...
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“Typical” at The Soho Theatre
As the events of last year made clear, the police have a problem with race on both sides of the...
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“Shook” by Samuel Bailey at Papatango
Film is the new theatre — this we know, but does the distance imposed by the change of medium...
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About “Living Newspaper”: A Counter Narrative
Read all about it! Well, maybe not. Maybe more like: live the news and then watch it streamed....
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How to Write a Pandemic Play
Ten prompts for writing about the year 2020: 1) “It started with a slight cough, a rather dry...
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“S-27” at The Finborough Theatre
Last week I watched Sarah Grochala’s award-winning short play, S-27, now streaming from the...
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About “December”
Yesterday, I watched the streamed version of December, written and directed by Alexander Knott,...
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“Misfits” at The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
A couple of days ago I watched the live stream of Misfits, from the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch....
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