“The Birthday Party” – Revival at Harold Pinter Theatre
Is modernism dead and buried? Anyone considering the long haul of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday...
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“Rita, Sue And Bob Too” at The Royal Court: The Revival for #MeToo Era
Vicky Featherstone, the artistic director of this new writing venue, is riding high. Very high. A...
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“A Crash Course In Cloudspotting (The Subversive Act Of Horizontality)”: Bringing Awareness Through Art
What does it take to become a cloudspotter? It may sound a romantic idea, but is a term used by...
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Border Force: The Scottish Arts Festival That’s Bringing Two Nations Together
“The Big Burns Supper aims to heal political rifts between the Scots and the English with 11...
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“Tiny Dynamite” at Old Red Lion Theatre
The marvelous is a dangerous place. Especially in memory. Today I still remember seeing the first...
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From Skopje To London Via Hungarian And English: András Visky’s “The Unburied”
In November 2017, a world premiere by one of the Hungarian language’s leading playwrights...
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The Best Dance Shows Coming In 2018
Windrush: Movement of the People Phoenix Dance Theatre marks the 70th anniversary of the journey...
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“The Jungle” at The Young Vic: New Immersive Docu-Drama
Refugees, it is said, have no nationality—they are all individuals. This new docu-drama, The...
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Noises Off: UK Theatre Audiences Have Always Been A Rowdy Lot
Without an audience in the theatre, there’d be no drama. But audiences have been providing rather...
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“Daisy Pulls It Off” at The Park Theatre
History is a good place to talk about our contemporary concerns. And British theatre loves plays...
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Audience To Vote For Bard’s Play They Want Performed At Shakespeare’s Globe
“Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow,” Shakespeare wrote. Now...
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Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Children” – The Environmental Disaster and Ethics
Annoying as it is, I have to start with a spoiler alert. That’s because what’s most interesting to...
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“FCUK’D” at The Bunker Theatre
Is Britain’s welfare system unfit for purpose? Well, all the news channels seem to suggest that...
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“Lucy McCormick: Triple Threat” at Soho Theatre – Mad Genius at Work
There are some shows that can simply never be made by men. I don’t mean in the sense of subject...
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“Misalliance” at The Orange Tree Theatre
George Bernard Shaw was a theatrical superman. A critical attack dog, as well as a creator of...
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The Journey Ahead, Accessible Theatre
As we’re coming towards the New Year, I’ve been reflecting on 2017. I’ve recently been a resident...
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In “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda Turned The Story Of A Forgotten Founding Father Into A Modern Musical Classic
It begins “How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore/And a Scotsman/ dropped in the middle of a...
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A View From The Bridge: The Dramaturg’s Work on A Play in Translation
When talking about translation, statistics show an alarming picture. The United Kingdom has the...
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“Goats” by Syrian Playwright Liwaa Yazjiat at The Royal Court
The civil war in Syria spawns image after image of hell on earth. Staging the stories of that...
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The Place Of A Dramaturg In Twenty-First Century England
Between 2002–2005, I carried the professional title of a Dramaturg in the UK. Even when confronted...
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