Reviews
Review: Riot Act at Live Theatre, Newcastle
Know your history: Tracey Sinclair reviews Alexis Gregory's one-man show channelling the history of LGBTQ+ activism.
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Features
Tim Cowbury and Mark Maughan: “It’s a completely fucked system”
The Claim is a Kafka-esque dive into the UK's asylum system. Here, its creators talk bureaucracy, funding, and making political theatre without the capital 'P'.
18 February
Reviews
Review: Pass Over at Kiln Theatre
Waiting for transcendence: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Antoinette Nwandu's play racist police violence and structural discrimination in America.
20 February
Reviews
Review: Ladybones at Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle
The skull in the backpack: Tracey Sinclair reviews Sorcha McCaffrey's autobiographical show about the realities of living with OCD.
20 February
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Review: The High Table at the Bush Theatre
Heaven-sent: Hannah Greenstreet writes on Temi Wilkey's moving queer Nigerian love story, set in London and the afterlife.
18 February
Reviews
Review: Mid Life at Bristol Old Vic
Unlimited stories: Lilith Wozniak reviews Diverse City's exploration of the broad range of women's mid life experiences.
18 February
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Nkenna Akunna
Temi Wilkey: “It feels like a bit of a reckoning”
Playwrights Nkenna Akunna and Temi Wilkey catch up, and talk 'The High Table', internalised homophobia, and what it's like to want a play that's made for you.
Bella Todd
A Call to Critique
Bella Todd writes on why artists with learning disabilities are ready for critical engagement: it's time for critics to catch up.
Alice Saville
The Problematised Populism of MONA FOMA
Tasmania's triumphantly weird arts festival lures in audiences with magic, sweat and glitter.
Alice Saville
A Festival of Brexit
As plans are taking shape for 2022's £120m post-Brexit arts extravaganza, here are some more outward-looking ways to mark Britain's exit from the EU.
Reviews
Review: Wuthering Heights at Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Mood piece: James Varney paints the violent, lustful landscape of Wuthering Heights in seven panels
18 February
Reviews
Review: The Visit at National Theatre
Elegantly wasted: Rosemary Waugh writes on Tony Kushner's elaborate, infuriating rewrite of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play.
17 February
Reviews
Review: Death of England at National Theatre
Tangled roots: J N Benjamin writes on Roy Williams and Clint Dyer's exploration of working class culture.
17 February
Reviews
Review: Leopoldstadt at Wyndham’s Theatre
Casting a shadow: Hailey Bachrach writes on the moving darkness of Tom Stoppard's study of Jewish identity.
17 February
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17 January
Josh Coates
Live Fanzines
Josh Coates is curating performance nights that bring fandom offline and onto the stage. Here's why.
2 January
Exeunt Staff
The 2020s: A Decade in Review
Exeunt sends its writers to the dawn of the 2030s to survey a tumultuous decade in theatre.
28 December
Natasha Tripney
A Quease-mas Carol
Leaves you feeling Peaky: Natasha Tripney dissects Steven Knight's cruelly misjudged Dickens adaptation for the BBC.
25 December
Exeunt Staff
Exeunt’s Most Memorable UK-wide Theatre 2019
Primordial dance, irreverent costume drama and communal experiences: Exeunt's writers pick out the shows beyond the M25 which have stuck with them in 2019.
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