Egypt Ministry of Culture Signs Agreement with DMC Channel to Film Plays
The Artistic Theatre House has announced that Ahmed Taha, director of the new DMC Masrah (DMC...
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Tag: National Theatre
Sex, Death, and Gender Fluidity in Wilde’s “Salomé” at Royal Shakespeare Company
Salomé: one of the most dangerously seductive female figures ever, often considered the original...
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“Salomé” at the National Theatre
Is God female? It says a lot about Yaël Farber’s pompous and overblown new version of this...
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“Consent”: A New Play About a Rape Case That Makes Audiences the Jury
In the airy sitting room of a nice house, a group of friends are catching up over a glass of wine....
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“My Country; A Work in Progress” The First Play Explicitly About Brexit
Oh dear. The first play explicitly about Brexit is being staged by the National Theatre in a...
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Brexit Play Attempts to Break the Bubble
Much has been written over recent months about the apparent bubble in which we are all now living,...
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“My Country; A Work in Progress” – The First Brexit Play at the National Theatre
Oh dear. The first play explicitly about Brexit is being staged by the National Theatre in a...
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Bryan Cranston to Star in Fake News-Predicting “Network” at National Theatre
The Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston will make his London stage debut in a National Theatre...
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“Us/Them” Explores Exclusion And How Children Cope
How do you stage appalling real-life events? I mean, without either being too luridly voyeuristic...
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London: Three Controversies About National Identity
This year has got off to a very slow start, with exciting new British plays being exceedingly...
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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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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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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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Talking Dramaturgy with Gareth Vile: Uncertainty, Confusion, Parody
Interview with Gareth Vile, Theatre Editor for the List, former Theatre Editor for the Skinny and...
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Reframing The Institution Of Public Theatre
The institution of the theatre constitutes a form of public/shared space. The public theatre...
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“Sex Workers’ Opera” by Experimental Experience Theatre Company
Sex work has long been a contentious issue – divisive for feminists and policy makers alike. The...
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Russian Comedies Shake Up UK Theaters
British stages have long been in love with Anton Chekhov and Nikolai Gogol, but there is...
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A National Theatre Of Australia Is Needed, And It’s Time
Sociologist Max Weber once called politics “the slow boring of hard boards”. If he had been in the...
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Plays In Ancient Athens Would Have Been More Like A Kate Bush Concert Than High-End Theatre
The September 4 live transmission of Euripides’ Medea will have brought an ancient Greek tragedy...
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Play By Soviet Writer Gorky Shines On London Stage
A play in which the privileged are out of touch and the poor are getting poorer is all too apt in...
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