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The Dark Web has an intriguing sound about it. Like something out of JRR Tolkien or JK Rowling, it...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Aug 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
The Dark Web has an intriguing sound about it. Like something out of JRR Tolkien or JK Rowling, it...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Aug 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Nostalgia used to be a disease, but now it’s a lifestyle choice. Look around you: British reality...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 14th Aug 2018 | Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
It is 27 years since Frank Skinner won the Perrier Award in Edinburgh, setting him on the path to...
Read MorePosted by Veronica Lee | 14th Aug 2018 | Festivals, Review, Theatre and Disability, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Lost Voice Guy, who won Britain’s Got Talent earlier this year, warns us that Inspiration Porn is...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Aug 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Chekhovian is a rather over-used word when it comes to describing some of the late Brian Friel’s...
Read MorePosted by Colin Hambrook | 11th Aug 2018 | Essay, Immersive Theatre, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Participatory Theatre, Theatre and Disability, Transmedia, United Kingdom
A Very Queer Nazi Faust is an experimental participatory performance piece created by artist Vince...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 10th Aug 2018 | Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Before her show begins, Rose Matafeo is on stage, bounding around in trainers and a tennis skirt,...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 9th Aug 2018 | Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Long before Cora Bissett became one of Scotland’s most exciting theatre-makers–in 2012 she won an...
Read MorePosted by Trevor Boffone | 8th Aug 2018 | Boston, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
“On Wednesdays, we wear pink,” affirms Regina George in the 2004 cult classic comedy Mean Girls....
Read MorePosted by Holly Williams | 30th Jul 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Here’s a chorus line with a difference: the geriatric ward of an under-threat Yorkshire hospital,...
Read MorePosted by Oberon Books | 28th Jul 2018 | Interview, LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Playwriting, United Kingdom
The Oberon Book Of Queer Monologues, just released, is an astonishing new collection which...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
London’s Royal Court theatre, which proudly boast of being “a leading force in world theatre for...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Jul 2018 | London, Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The NHS is us. For decades our national identity has been bandaged together with the idea, and...
Read MorePosted by Natasha Sutton Williams | 24th Jul 2018 | Books, Directing, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
To mark the launch of Graeae’s new book, Reasons to Be Graeae, which charts the history of the...
Read MorePosted by Gary Shipton | 24th Jul 2018 | Festivals, Musical Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
When the first person to appear on stage is director Daniel Evans with a microphone in hand and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jul 2018 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, United Kingdom
There are few subjects as emotionally fraught as the relationship between childhood and death. How...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Jul 2018 | Italy, Kosovo, London, Review, United Kingdom
Images are what make abstract crises concrete. And who can forget the image of the bankrupt Lehman...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Jul 2018 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Britain is rightly proud of its record on multiculturalism, but whenever cross-cultural couples...
Read MorePosted by Irene Kukota | 18th Jul 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
When looking forward to seeing a work of art, a certain play or a performance what is our feeling...
Read MorePosted by Deborah Orr | 16th Jul 2018 | Essay, London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Bret Yount is choreographing. But there isn’t any dancing. Nor, for the moment, is there...
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