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.
Natasha Tripney
Articles by Natasha Tripney
11 February 2021
Features
Exeunt: The First Five Years
By Natasha Tripney
Exeunt marks its tenth birthday with a look back at its beginnings from co-Founding Editor Natasha Tripney.
9 February 2021
Reviews
Review: Game/Damned Be the Traitor of My Homeland
By Natasha Tripney
Picking at scabs: Natasha Tripney writes on two shows that messily subvert Slovenia’s sense of national identity.
25 September 2020
Features
An Open Verdict
By Natasha Tripney
Should cases be tried in theatres? Natasha Tripney asks lawyers and theatremakers for their views on the Lowry’s role as a temporary courtroom.
3 August 2020
Features
Who would have thought it would come to this?
By Natasha Tripney
The 2020 Edinburgh fringe is (mostly) cancelled this year. So Natasha Tripney’s cut-up style poem imagines what the festival will be like, when it returns.
16 July 2020
Reviews • Reviews
Review: Remnants, by Soundworlds
By Natasha Tripney
No place to mourn: Natasha Tripney writes on an audio drama about the aftermath of the atrocities in Bosnia.
26 June 2020
Features
A dialogue on theatres and communities
By Natasha Tripney
Who is theatre for? Why does it matter? What do we stand to lose? A group of directors, producers and critics talk theatre and community.
23 June 2020
Features
POSTWEST Festival: What does it mean to be Eastern European?
By Natasha Tripney
“Something positive came out of this shitty situation:” Natasha Tripney talks to the artists who are moving Eastern European arts festival POSTWEST online.
3 June 2020
Reviews • International
Review: A School for Fools
By Natasha Tripney
“It’s the theatrical equivalent of found poetry”: Natasha Tripney discovers the resourceful, richly textured techniques of Belarus Free Theatre’s online performance.
26 May 2020
Reviews • National
Review: The Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings show
By Natasha Tripney
A tragedy in two acts: Natasha Tripney assesses the theatrical merits of the government’s most recent instalments of live-streamed satire
14 May 2020
Reviews • Reviews
Review: The Department of Dreams
By Natasha Tripney
What dreams may come: Natasha Tripney discusses a US production of Jeton Neziraj’s dystopian story of sleep and the subconscious.
12 May 2020
Features
A Dialogue on Making Work Collectively
By Natasha Tripney
How can we support artists better? What forms can collaboration take? A group of artists and producers discuss the future of making work collectively.
22 April 2020
Features
Archive theatre, new connections
By Natasha Tripney
“I’m learning a culture and a country through its theatre”: Natasha Tripney writes on her enriching encounters with online performance.
10 April 2020
Features
A European Theatre Dialogue: Aesthetics and Radicalism
By Natasha Tripney
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.
9 April 2020
Features
A European Theatre Dialogue: Directors, Text and Dramaturgy
By Natasha Tripney
The conversation continues, as a group of directors, dramaturgs and critics discuss how European theatre practitioners approach text.