Reviews
Review: The Disappearing of Vincent Gambini (online)
Now you see me: Louise Jones reviews a film by performance maker and magician Augusto Corrieri, made in response to a cancelled 2020 tour.
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Features
A Good Night Out
Maddy Costa writes about the non-hierarchical reading group that explores big questions about theatre, socialism and power structures.
3 April
Reviews
Review: Outside at The Orange Tree (online)
Outside in: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on the second of the Orange Tree's livestreamed collection of short plays, which 'draw a thick line between where we’ve come from and where we’re going'.
16 April
Reviews
Review: Distance Remaining at Macrobert Arts Centre (online)
New horizons: Tracey Sinclair reviews a trilogy of quest-themed short plays by Stewart Melton.
15 April
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Review: Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative at the Royal Court (online)
Hot off the press: Hannah Greenstreet reviews the Royal Court's eclectic online experiment in rapid-response theatre.
8 April
Reviews
Review: Open Mic at HOME/Soho Theatre (online)
Eye contact: James Varney writes on liveness in Rob Drummond's unsettling, loss-tinged open mic night.
6 April
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Features
Louise Jones
Compass Festival #1: are you listening?
Louise Jones answers the call of ZU-UK's phonebox-based performance in her first piece as embedded critic at Compass, the Leeds-based festival of live art
Ali Pritchard
Alphabetti Theatre: A new model for small-scale theatre
Ali Pritchard explains how lockdown gave Newcastle's Alphabetti Theatre time to reflect, and build a new model that works better for both artists and local communities.
Rosemary Waugh
Natalie Ibu: “I think the sector has been too seduced by the idea of new and young and sexy”
The new artistic director of Northern Stage talks doomscrolling, digital theatre, and fighting to bring back the artists that theatre's lost.
Laura Harris and James Rowson
Nearly a year on, UK theatre freelancers are still in the dark
Laura Harris and James Rowson share some initial findings from research project Freelancers in the Dark, charting broken lines of communication, grief, solidarity and hope.
Reviews
Review: The Lucky Ones by Riptide (online)
Two can play that game: Holly Williams teams up with her brother Lyall to review Riptide's ambitious week-long code-cracking adventure.
3 April
Reviews
Review: The Meaning of Zong at Bristol Old Vic (online)
Writing history: Lilith Wozniak writes on the role of storytelling in Giles Terera's radio play about the 1781 Zong slaveship massacre and the fight for abolition.
29 March
Reviews
Review: Is Now A Good Time? at Tobacco Factory Theatres
Office romance: Harvey Bassett reviews Out of Chaos's interactive telephone show masquerading as a market research questionnaire.
24 March
Reviews
Review: Closed Hands at HOME, Manchester (online)
Untangling threads: Mostyn Jones reviews an ambitious game by Dan Hett exploring the fallout of a terror attack.
22 March
More Features
11 February
Natasha Tripney
Exeunt: The First Five Years
Exeunt marks its tenth birthday with a look back at its beginnings from co-Founding Editor Natasha Tripney.
5 February
Francesca Peschier
The Theatre Snob’s Guide to Terrible (aka BRILLIANT) Reality Telly
If you're starved of drama, Francesca Peschier's here to show you the classic reality tv shows that will supply contrived plots, heroic journeys, and bloodthirsty thrills.
28 January
Exeunt Staff
14 things we never thought we’d miss about going to the theatre
Astringent theatre wine, awkward interval conversations, besieged bladders...and all the things Exeunt's writers would love to get annoyed by once more.
24 December
Exeunt Staff
The livestreams that won us round to online theatre in 2020
Exeunt's writers look back on a year of livestreams, and the journey from despondency to hope.
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