Reviews
Review: The Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings show
A tragedy in two acts: Natasha Tripney assesses the theatrical merits of the government's most recent instalments of live-streamed satire
26 May
Features
A Case for Liveness
"When you go to a live performance, you take your body with you": Annie Saunders writes on the essential connection between medium and message.
25 May
Features
Revisiting The Encounter
Holly Williams loops back to Simon McBurney's time-bending binaural adventure, and asks him what it can say to lockdown audiences.
23 May
Features
An open letter to theatre and performance makers
A group of theatre and performance organisations are coming together to offer support and a voice to freelancers. Their open letter explains why.
21 May
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Reviews
Review: BE at Home
Hope in the dark: Ben Kulvichit discovers underground caves, cardboard time capsules and durational circus feats at BE Festival's online edition.
21 May
Reviews
Review: Yard Online
Hope and healing: Hannah Greenstreet writes on the intimate, soothing and disconcerting interactive digital performances at The Yard's one day festival.
19 May
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Features
Alice Saville
What could socially distanced theatre look like?
We could have celebrity monologues in half-empty auditoriums. Or, we could look to the experimental theatremakers who've made space for new forms.
Natasha Tripney
A Dialogue on Making Work Collectively
How can we support artists better? What forms can collaboration take? A group of artists and producers discuss the future of making work collectively.
Alice Saville
Theatre’s Left Behind Freelancers
Alice Saville surveys the freelance theatre workers who aren't covered by government support, and have been left without income overnight.
Selina Thompson
Post Pandemic #Work
Selina Thompson lists and itemises the performances to come, once lockdown is over.
Reviews
Review: The Department of Dreams
What dreams may come: Natasha Tripney discusses a US production of Jeton Neziraj's dystopian story of sleep and the subconscious.
14 May
Reviews
Review: GIFT Festival
A digital invitation: Tracey Sinclair overcomes her livestream scepticism at Gateshead's teeming, welcoming online festival of live art.
5 May
Reviews
Imaginary Review: The Occupation Army of Cripples
Amelia Cavallo completes Greyscale and Exeunt's imaginary reviews series with "a glimpse of what crip utopia could look like".
29 April
Reviews
Imaginary Review: For the Love of it All
The series continues with Wambui Hardcastle’s spirit-lifting show about love, unfolding in Byker's grass ampitheatre.
28 April
More Features
22 April
Natasha Tripney
Archive theatre, new connections
"I'm learning a culture and a country through its theatre": Natasha Tripney writes on her enriching encounters with online performance.
15 April
Exeunt Staff
Celebrity Coronavirus Videos, Reviewed
Exeunt's writers pen micro-reviews of the tone-deaf, delightful, or dazzlingly weird video art created by celebrities under lockdown.
11 April
Farah Najib
No drama club today
Farah Najib reflects on the impact of school closures on kids, and on what theatres can do to reach children in lockdown.
10 April
Natasha Tripney
A European Theatre Dialogue: Aesthetics and Radicalism
The discussion concludes with an exploration of aesthetics and set design in European theatre; and questions about what it will take for the UK to change.
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