“On Bear Ridge” at the Royal Court: History of Loss in Ed Thomas’s Absurdist Play.
Memory involves places, people, things and words–especially words. This abstract proposition...
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“Botticelli in the Fire” at the Hampstead: A Queer 15th Century Tale.
Botticelli is a household name, but who knows the true story behind his most famous painting? The...
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Samuel Bailey’s “Shook” at Southwark Playhouse
The winner of the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize, Shook by Samuel Bailey offers a glimpse into...
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Slanguages, Hip-Hop, a Russian Play, Punjabi Poetry and Oxford University
Oxford University hosted ‘Poetry in Motion’ lin June at Wolfson College to academics, students,...
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Cultural Participation Policies: A Poverty of Ambitions
This series of articles was commissioned in preparation for the IETM Plenary Meeting in Rijeka,...
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A Quietly Bold Statement from a New Artist with a Lot to Tell: Oona Doherty’s “Hard to be Soft” at Dance Umbrella Festival at Southbank Centre, London
My senses are all awakened. It begins in the darkness. A curl of smoke rises from a dimly lit bowl...
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Translating Trojan Horses
In 2019, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi was asked to translate Trojan Horse, a play by Lung Theatre based...
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Annie Baker’s “The Antipodes” at the National Theatre
“Wily, slippery thing.” “Spiky little animal.” “One long nightmare.” These are the phrases that...
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Sarah Rutherford’s “The Girl Who Fell” at the Trafalgar Studios: Death, Mourning, Co-Incidence and Healing
Feeling guilty can be a drug. A powerful drug. Okay, it makes you feel bad, but at the same time,...
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Ravers Under the Microscope: Dance Umbrella Festival Opens with Gisèle Vienne’s “Crowd” at Sadler’s Wells
The opening of the annual Dance Umbrella Festival of international contemporary dance in London...
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Richard Gadd’s “Baby Reindeer” at The Bush Theatre: An Obsessive Story About Obsession
True stories, even in a fictional form, have the power to grip you by the throat, furiously shake...
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Alice Birch’s “[BLANK]” at the Donmar Warehouse
Believe me when I tell you that there is much more to Alice Birch’s play [BLANK] than meets the...
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Arinzé Kene’s “Little Baby Jesus” at the Orange Tree Theatre: Lyrical, Energetic and Wise Coming-of-Age Drama
Wow. Just wow. The moment you enter the auditorium of this venue it’s immediately obvious that...
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Maxim Gorky’s “Vassa” at the Almeida Theatre
“Our family doesn’t get on,” sneers the eponymous matriarch of Maxim Gorky’s Vassa, now playing at...
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Samuel Gallet’s “Mephisto [A Rhapsody]” at The Gate Theatre
Adaptation is too banal a word to describe the cross-fertilization of theatre and other art forms....
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“A History Of Water In The Middle East” at The Royal Court
Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer who has explored issues of Muslim and British...
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Danusia Samal’s “Out of Sorts” at the Theatre 503: Deeply Emotional Account of Personal Identity
One of the delights of London fringe theatre is its ability to nurture new talent. In this respect...
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“A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” at Trafalgar Studios
Playwright Peter Nichols died aged 92 last month, just before the opening of this starry West End...
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David Greig’s “Solaris” at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
Far away from Earth, there is a planet called Solaris. It is covered by an ocean and orbits two...
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Samuel Gallet’s “Mephisto [A Rhapsody]” at the Gate Theatre
What does it really mean to do political theatre? Does the theatre even hold any potential to...
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