Natasha Tripney

Natasha founded Exeunt with Daniel B. Yates in 2011 and remains responsible for the overall editorial management of the site. Since March 2015, she's been joint lead critic for The Stage, along with Mark Shenton. She has also contributed to Time Out, the Guardian online, The Space, and The Independent, and she reviews books for The Observer. An occasional writer of fiction, one of her stories was shortlisted for the 2010 Bristol Short Story Prize.

Articles by Natasha Tripney

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.

12 June 2017

Features

Fringe Programme Poetry

By Natasha Tripney

“Who is torturing whom?” Natasha Tripney crafts a cut-up poem from the fever dream that is the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe programme.

30 May 2017

Reviews • Reviews

Review: Don Juan at Jugoslovensko Dramsko Pozoriste, Belgrade

Until 26 June 2017

By Natasha Tripney

“Appealing pyromaniac tendencies” – Natasha Tripney reviews Gorčin Stojanović’s production of Don Juan.

27 March 2017

Reviews • Reviews

Review: A Man Who Watched the World at the Mladinsko theatre, Ljubljana

Mladinsko theatre ⋄

By Natasha Tripney

The snickety-snick of the sewing machine: Natasha Tripney reviews Žiga Divjak’s bleak but impressive production at the Mladinsko theatre.

28 June 2016

Reviews • Reviews

Review: The Extra People at Malta Festival, Poznan

Malta Festival ⋄ 26th - 27th June 2016

By Natasha Tripney

The watchers and the watched: Natasha Tripney reviews Ant Hampton’s work presented as part of Malta Festival.

13 June 2016

Features

Edinburgh Fringe Programme Poetry

By Natasha Tripney

Don’t be fooled by gimp owl: the Edinburgh Fringe has a sensitive side. Natasha Tripney offers a cut-up poem plucked from the pages of the Edinburgh Fringe Programme.

5 January 2016

Features

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

By Natasha Tripney

Natasha Tripney on fan-service, feminism and the Sherlock Christmas special

6 December 2015

Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Around The World in 80 Days

St James Theatre ⋄ 26th November 2015 - 17th January 2016

By Natasha Tripney

Jules Verne and the shrinking world.

2 December 2015

Features

Pantomime: The Purest Form of Theatre

By Natasha Tripney

Jon Bradfield discusses representation, rude songs, and the validity of pantomime as an artform.

1 December 2015

Features

Waking The Feminists: “We’ve a long road ahead of us.”

By Natasha Tripney

Fiona Doyle on the situation still faced by female playwrights in Ireland and how gender inequality within Irish Theatre is symptomatic of something much deeper.

15 November 2015

Reviews • OWE & Fringe

Sparks

Old Red Lion ⋄ 10th November - 5th December 2015

By Natasha Tripney

Sisterland.

8 November 2015

Reviews • West End & Central

The Winter’s Tale/Harlequinade

Garrick Theatre ⋄ 17th October - 16th January 2015

By Natasha Tripney

Pursued by a bear.

23 October 2015

Reviews • OWE & Fringe

French Without Tears

Orange Tree Theatre ⋄ 8th October - 21st November 2015

By Natasha Tripney

Pay attention to the hair.