Reviews
Review: 12 Last Songs at Transform Festival, Leeds Playhouse
Putting in a shift: Angelo Irving reviews Quarantine's 12-hour mass portrait of the workers of Leeds.
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Features
How do we begin to heal from all this?
Artist the vacuum cleaner talks about his interviews with health workers in Newham, and how his new installation-performance EXPOSURE aims to create a space for exploring collective trauma.
12 October
Reviews
Review: I Stand For What I Stand On at Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol
Ghosts from the future: Lilith Wozniak reviews Strike A Light's show created with youth climate activists from Gloucester.
19 October
Reviews
Review: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy at New Diorama Theatre, London
Containing multitudes: Angelo Irving reviews Ryan Calais Cameron's play about a group of Black men attending group therapy.
19 October
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Review: Road at Northern Stage, Newcastle
Snapshots from Thatcher's Britain: Lauren Vevers reviews Natalie Ibu's production of Jim Cartright's seminal 1985 play, relocated to the North East.
19 October
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Review: Yellowfin at Southwark Playhouse
Something fishy going on: Brendan Macdonald writes on Marek Horn's 'delightful' ecological satire exploring the human desire to know.
19 October
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Features
Alice Saville
“Please, please, please wear your mask in the theatre”
An imaginary conversation between two theatregoers at a mostly-maskless West End show.
Natasha Tripney
Censor, censorship, and theatre’s 21st century video nasties
Following the release of new film Censor, Natasha Tripney traces the stories of screen violence, from Mary Whitehouse's outrage to today's horror theatre livestreams.
Alice Saville
Edinburgh 2021: An ending, a beginning
Alice Saville writes about the strangeness and specialness of 2021's smaller-than-ever fringe festival.
Holly Maples and Allie Young
Has the pandemic been a step back for working class inclusion in theatre?
"This is not a leveller": Holly Maples and Allie Young explore the pandemic's impact on working class artists, as part of the Freelancers in the Dark research project.
Reviews
Review: Hamlet at Young Vic
A conversation: Elete N-F reviews an intimate take on Hamlet, starring Cush Jumbo.
19 October
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Review: Love and Other Acts of Violence at Donmar Warehouse
Destruction and ruin: Farah Najib reviews Cordelia Lynn's bleak, mud-strewn story of a relationship.
18 October
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Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth at Almeida Theatre
Superb and surprising: Brendan Macdonald falls under the spell of Yaël Farber's take on Macbeth.
18 October
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Review: The Mountaintop at Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Echoes in history: James Varney writes on hauntings in this revival of Katori Hall's play set on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death.
16 October
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23 June
Ava Wong Davies
“the world is so different now” – seven methods of killing kylie jenner, revisited
Two years after it premiered, seven methods is moving from Royal Court's studio to its main house. Ava Wong Davies asks its director Milli Bhatia about what's changed.
17 June
Alice Saville
The Edinburgh Fringe is in limbo: who’s going to secure its future?
It's still unclear what form 2021's Edinburgh Fringe is going to take. Alice Saville argues that for the festival to survive, deeper conversation and decisive change is needed.
20 May
Salome Wagaine
What lessons can be learned from theatre’s pandemic redundancies?
Last year, theatres made sweeping redundancies. As venues reopen, and roles start to be readvertised, Salome Wagaine argues that changes need to be made.
19 May
Adam Welsh
Why don’t I feel more excited about returning to the theatre?
As theatres reopen, Adam Welsh thinks about how little has changed - and about the potential fpr digital theatre to signal a different future.
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