“The Great Wave” at The National Theatre: True Stories of Japanese People Abducted by the North Korean Regime
Until very recently British theatre has been pretty poor at representing the stories of Chinese...
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A Day In The Life Of Liz Crossman: Costume Prop Maker And Milliner
Whilst it sounds like a cliché, the great thing about my work is that it is rare that any day is...
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“Black Men Walking” at The Royal Court: Ordinary Folk Doing Ordinary Thing
In the same week that Arinzé Kene’s Misty, a play that passionately questions the clichés of...
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Women Flying High In Circus
On International Women’s Day 2018 and in the year of Circus250, Poppy Burton-Morgan blogs for UK...
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The Greatest Play Ever Written: Translating “The Cherry Orchard”
Rory Mullarkey introduces his new version of Chekhov’s masterpiece for Bristol Old Vic. “The...
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“The Birthday Party”- A Classic That Never Grows Old
Toby Jones, Zoë Wanamaker, Stephen Mangan, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Peter Wight, and Pearl Mackie make...
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“Humble Boy” at The Orange Tree Theatre: The Tragi-Comedy of Generational Conflict
Good programming is an art, and Paul Miller—artistic director at this venue—is clearly on a...
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A Place To Be Seen: Global Queer Plays At The Arcola Theatre
On March 3 and 4 2018, the Arcola Theatre in East London presented Global Queer Plays, a series of...
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Disability And The Arts To Be Discussed Within D-CAF
In line with the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival’s (D-CAF) commitment to addressing the...
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“Lessons Learnt” By A Professional Translator–Adapting The Same Play Three Times Over Three Years
I have just finished translating Mikhail Durnenkov’s The War Hasn’t Yet Started for the third time...
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“Buggy Baby” at The Yard Theatre: How Can You Represent Trauma in The Theatre?
How can you represent trauma in the theatre? Let’s count the ways: the naturalistic way tells a...
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Gore Vidal’s “The Best Man” at The Playhouse Theatre: Is It Possible to Get Too Much of American Politics?
Is it possible to get too much of American politics? With Donald Trump’s daily tweets invading our...
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“Jubilee” at The Lyric Hammersmith: Adapting Punk Classic
The late Derek Jarman’s 1978 film Jubilee is a punk classic. I think he was in his Fellini phase,...
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Cinema And Smart Phones: The Art Of Increasing Audiences For Opera, Ballet, And, Theatre
Watching an opera, play, or ballet has become an increasingly cinematic experience. “Livecasting”...
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Jess Thom On Touretteshero’s Production Of Beckett’s “Not I”: Mouth as a Disabled Character
Following excellent reviews from a run of Samuel Beckett’s Not I in Edinburgh last summer...
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Going Places Interview With Lauren Clancy, The New Executive Director of The Bush Theatre
Lauren Clancy, the new Executive Director of the Bush Theatre, talks to us about her first few...
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Contemporary “Electra” by DumbWise at The Bunker Theatre
Electra is the protagonist in two Ancient Greek tragedies, one by Sophocles and the other by...
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The Bathroom Play: Georgia Christou’s “Yous Two” at The Hampstead Theatre
Theatre is a business as well as a craft. In an age of austerity cuts, and at a time when most...
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“Y Tad” – Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru (A Welsh Translation of Florian Zeller’s “The Father”)
Terry Eagleton reminds us that in order for tragedy to occur, then the protagonist must be in...
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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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