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.
Natasha Tripney
Articles by Natasha Tripney
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 • National
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.
8 April 2020
Features
A European Theatre Dialogue: Repertory Theatre and the Power of the Ensemble
By Natasha Tripney
Directors, dramaturgs and critics discuss how the European repertory model empowers actors and influences the work that gets made.
28 December 2019
Features
A Quease-mas Carol
By Natasha Tripney
Leaves you feeling Peaky: Natasha Tripney dissects Steven Knight’s cruelly misjudged Dickens adaptation for the BBC.
30 September 2019
Features
Belgrade International Theatre Festival: Let’s Start Over
By Natasha Tripney
Natasha Tripney finds destruction, renewal, and numbing violence at Belgrade’s festival of avant garde theatre from across Europe.
10 June 2019
Features
An Obsession Is Born
By Natasha Tripney
Natasha Tripney marks the launch of the 2019 Edinburgh fringe programme with a poem, crafted from its cut up and reassembled entrails.
28 August 2018
Features • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
A Decade of Fringes
By Natasha Tripney
Natasha Tripney writes on the time-bending, memory-layering properties of returning to Edinburgh for the festival fringe, year after year.
14 June 2018
Features
Into the Unknown
By Natasha Tripney
In an annual Exeunt tradition, Natasha Tripney condenses the contents of the entire 2018 Edinburgh Fringe programme into a single poem.