Reviews
Review: Does My Bomb Look Big In This? at Soho Theatre
Nyla Levy's play about the radicalisation of a teenage girl captures 'the weirdly skewed sense of the scale of things you have as a young person', writes Frey Kwa Hawking.
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Features
Recasting Death of a Salesman
"We’re not asking the audience not to see the colour of their skin - we are specifically asking them to look at it” - Miranda Cromwell, Marianne Elliott and Wendell Pierce discuss the impact of casting black actors in Miller's play.
14 May
Reviews
Review: Anna at National Theatre
"You can't build a country on wants": Maddy Costa writes on Ella Hickson's play, feminism and capitalism.
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Review: Deeds Not Words at Northern Stage, Newcastle
Stark reminder: Tracey Sinclair writes on Abbot Dance Theatre's commemoration of the women's suffrage movement.
22 May
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Review: We Can Time Travel at Bristol Old Vic
'Irresistible forward momentum': Lilith Wozniak reviews composer and theatre-maker Dom Coyote's time-hopping storytelling show.
21 May
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Review: Séancers at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton
Ritual resurrection: Henry Gleaden writes on Nigerian-American performance artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko's heady, emotional summoning of the Black dead.
20 May
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Features
Ava Wong Davies
Anchuli Felicia King: “You have to recognise the shithole you’re in, in order to climb out.”
Playwright Anchuli Felicia King's grimly comic satire of the Singapore skin-lightening industry opens at the Royal Court this week. In this interview, she discusses Mamet, Crazy Rich Asians, and late-stage capitalism.
James Varney
Transform 2019: Geographical Accidents
James Varney writes on live art festival Transform, and explores how its line-up intertwines with the Leeds streets that surround it.
Alice Saville
Immersive theatre, and the consenting audience
Immersive shows like Barzakh push their audiences to extremes. But can you really consent to an experience you know nothing about?
Kate Wyver
Ridiculusmus: “We move at the pace of turtles mating”
Kate Wyver and her grandmother interview the experimental theatre duo Ridiculusmus, as they rehearse a new show about getting older and slowing down.
Reviews
Review: Louder is Not Always Clearer at Bristol Old Vic
Getting the message across: Ben Kulvichit writes on communication and clarity in Mr and Mrs Clark's show made with deaf performer Jonny Cotsen.
19 May
Reviews
Review: Operation Mincemeat at New Diorama Theatre
Shipshape hilarity: Ed Nightingale reviews SpitLip's WWII entirely entertaining comedy-musical.
19 May
Reviews
Review: White Pearl at Royal Court Theatre
Pastel nightmares: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on a riotous exploration of skin-lightening and prejudice.
17 May
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Review: Rejoicing At Her Wondrous Vulva The Young Woman Applauded Herself at Ovalhouse
Kate Wyver writes on Bella Heesom's (pubic) hair-raisingly literal exploration of all things vulval.
16 May
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25 April
Claire Gaydon
Performing Yourself
YouTubers and live artists alike are under pressure to share personal information about their lives. Claire Gaydon writes on the risks of making confessional work, and the need to find ways to protect yourself.
15 April
Exeunt Staff
Dialogue: The things that make you fall back in love with theatre
Exeunt writers talk about the shifting emotional landscape of their relationship with theatre, and explore what it's like to fall in, and out, of love.
10 April
Maddy Costa
Dialogue Theatre Club
Maddy Costa writes on the community-building, conversation-starting power of Theatre Clubs, which make space for audiences to discuss the work they've seen.
8 April
Jen Malarkey and Lee Mattinson
Encounter: “Eventually everything just gets pulled into our world”
Jen Malarkey and Lee Mattinson make surreal and unsettling performance together. Here, they talk about grief, working with kids, and their new show 'The Kids Are Alright'.
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