Practising Blind Support and Doing Everything in the Moment: Talking Dramaturgy with Will Naameh
An interview with Edinburgh-based improviser Will Naameh about dramaturgy and improvisation....
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Translated Theatre in Brexit Britain
As the London Eye fireworks die down and 2016 segues bleary-eyed in to 2017, one of the most...
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The Best Alternative Holiday Shows
The Celebrity One: Cinderella This is the big one. Paul O’Grady plays the wicked stepmother and...
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Laudation Delivered on the Occasion of Forced Entertainment’s Acceptance of the International Ibsen Award
In September 2016 the British experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment were the winners...
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The Secret Lives of Playwrights
A new theatre podcast by the playwright Simon Stephens sheds light on the people behind the plays....
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James Graham On How His 2012 Political Hit “This House” Will Go Down in 2016
The danger of writing political plays is that reality, of course, has a habit of overtaking you....
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London Theatre Company Brings Translators Centre-Stage
There are plenty of theatre translators who start out as actors, directors, playwrights or other...
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Here’s Why Christopher Marlowe Co-wrote Shakespeare’s “Henry VI”
A new edition of Shakespeare’s works has identified Christopher Marlowe as a co-author. The...
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“Assisted Suicide”: A Musical That Asks Us to Think Critically About the Portrayal of Euthanasia
Earlier this month, Colorado voters approved a ballot that made it the fifth state to legalize...
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How Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre Is Bringing New Writing Talent to The World
Thanks to its famous annual Fringe festival, Edinburgh is well known as a place to discover new...
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“An Inspector Calls”: Blasting Open the Drawing Room
J. B. Priestley’s most famous play An Inspector Calls has had quite an interesting life. Written...
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Variety Night at the Lyceum: a Social Event
David Greig’s artistic directorship at the Royal Lyceum Theatre brings a new Variety Night for Sunday nights in Edinburgh
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Making Shakespeare Live with Birds of Paradise
Birds of Paradise Theatre Company prove that somewhere between Glasgow and Hong Kong, Shakespeare lives
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Behind the Scenes at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre
Housed inside a stunning Grade II listed building, Manchester’s Royal Exchange is the country’s...
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Review: “Anastasia” At The Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House’s production of the real-life mystery of Anastasia comes to a close today....
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National Theatre Asks Actors Over-80 to Improvise Play Without Script
A new play staged by the National Theatre will thrust actors in their 70s and 80s onto the stage...
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How Theatre Is Tackling The Biggest Issue of All: The Future of Our Planet
Oil, Ella Hickson’s new play at the Almeida, begins in a bitingly cold Cornwall in 1889 when a...
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“Shopping and F***” is Back – How it Rocked Then and Why it’s Relevant Now
Shopping and Fucking was the most iconic play of the 1990s. As it is revived, 20 years on, we look...
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Steakhouse: Live Art, Live Writing
Performance festival Steakhouse Live returns for 2016 with a beefier line-up and a new embedded...
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Welsh Theatre – Curse or Blessing?
“Though we have a nascent theatre tradition, we do have a long tradition of performance…Our writers are indicative of a nation that is still wrestling…with positive identifications of self.” – Ian Rowlands
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