Maddy Costa tells the story of Unfolding Theatre’s first pandemic year, and reflects on the unexpectedly hopeful lessons learned in 2020.
Maddy Costa
Articles by Maddy Costa
28 May 2021
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: A Certain Value at Take Me Somewhere (online)
26-29 May
By Maddy Costa
Alternative living: Maddy Costa shares her correspondences with friends about Anna Rispoli and Martina Angelotti’s show about four radical European collectives.
30 April 2021
Reviews
Review: The Motherhood Project, BAC (online)
19 April - 2 May
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa reflects on Battersea Arts Centre’s collection of short films exploring motherhood – ‘that overwhelm of expectation, that you are all things to all people’.
3 April 2021
Features
A Good Night Out
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa writes about the non-hierarchical reading group that explores big questions about theatre, socialism and power structures.
24 November 2020
Features
A broken story for broken times
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa turns her interview with Encounter’s director Jen Malarkey into an interactive twine story, ahead of Friday’s stream of The Kids Are Alright.
8 August 2020
Features
WTF Next
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa reflects on the conversations started by WTF Next, an online meeting place to discuss the future of theatre.
24 February 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: When It Breaks It Burns, Battersea Arts Centre
By Maddy Costa
Bodies in a movement: Maddy Costa writes on Coletiva Ocupação’s ‘radiant’ show telling the stories of some of the Brazilian students who occupied their schools in 2015.
30 January 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Lite Metle; fire bird at the Yard
28th Jan - 1st February
By Maddy Costa
‘Blood drips across the century but the vein still binds’: Maddy Costa writes on double bill of searing performances by Ultimate Dancer and Julie Cunningham, part of NOW 20.
10 January 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: This Time by Ockham’s Razor, Shoreditch Town Hall
8 - 19 January
By Maddy Costa
Circus at the end of the world: Maddy Costa writes on Ockham Razor’s intergenerational aerial collaboration.
9 December 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Bitch on Heat at Soho Theatre
5th - 14th December
By Maddy Costa
A howl of despair: Maddy Costa writes on Leah Shelton’s latex-clad, lipsync take on the myth of Pandora’s box.
21 November 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Land Without Dreams at the Gate Theatre
By Maddy Costa
Imagining a future: Maddy Costa writes on Danish theatre company Fix & Foxy’s ‘materially sparse, philosophically expansive’ show.
21 October 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Out of Sorts at Theatre 503
9th October - 2nd November
By Maddy Costa
Becoming universal: Maddy Costa writes on Danusia Samal’s new play, a ‘familiar, homely and true’ exploration of its characters’ tangled identities.
16 September 2019
Features • Essays
Relaxed venues, liberated audiences
By Maddy Costa
“To react and respond is just human”: Maddy Costa writes on how audiences are silenced, and the complex history of ideas of ‘civilised’ behaviour.
10 June 2019
Reviews • Bristol • National
Review: Hot Flushes at Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
By Maddy Costa
Wild and well-armed: Maddy Costa reviews Documental Theatre’s country and Western musical following a BHS employee robbed of her pension.
23 May 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Anna at National Theatre
11th May - 15th June 2019
By Maddy Costa
“You can’t build a country on wants”: Maddy Costa writes on Ella Hickson’s play, feminism and capitalism.