Rosemary Waugh interviews the co-artistic director of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre about her tumultuous first year in the job.
Rosemary Waugh
Articles by Rosemary Waugh
10 December 2020
Reviews
Review: The Dumb Waiter at Hampstead Theatre
By Rosemary Waugh
Low-growling discord: Rosemary Waugh reviews a tense 60th anniversary revival of Harold Pinter’s play.
8 October 2020
Features
Debbie Hannan: “I’m stepping onto the ship at the exact moment it’s hitting the iceberg!”
By Rosemary Waugh
Traverse Theatre’s incoming co-artistic director Debbie Hannan talks class, the fringe, and rethinking theatre’s power structures.
28 September 2020
Reviews
Review: Squad Goals, Dagenham and Redbridge FC
By Rosemary Waugh
Star Players: Rosemary Waugh writes on a site-specific show celebrating the ‘mud-splattered-flood-lit revolution’ that is women’s football.
21 August 2020
Reviews • Opera
Review: Opera Helps by Joshua Sofaer
By Rosemary Waugh
Friendly overtures: Rosemary Waugh writes on her confidence-boosting one-to-one therapy session from an opera singer.
18 February 2020
Features
Tim Cowbury and Mark Maughan: “It’s a completely fucked system”
By Rosemary Waugh
The Claim is a Kafka-esque dive into the UK’s asylum system. Here, its creators talk bureaucracy, funding, and making political theatre without the capital ‘P’.
17 February 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Visit at National Theatre
By Rosemary Waugh
Elegantly wasted: Rosemary Waugh writes on Tony Kushner’s elaborate, infuriating rewrite of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play.
21 October 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Lungs at the Old Vic
By Rosemary Waugh
“We’re good people right?” – Rosemary Waugh writes on the normal people of Duncan Macmillan’s climate change play.
7 September 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: A Very Expensive Poison at Old Vic
By Rosemary Waugh
Unreliable narratives: Rosemary Waugh writes on Lucy Prebble’s metatheatrical story of Litvinenko’s poisoning.
1 September 2019
Reviews
Review: Bartholomew Fair at Shakespeare’s Globe
By Rosemary Waugh
Freaky fairground mirrors: Rosemary Waugh writes on a playful take on Ben Jonson’s challenging play.
19 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: The Chosen by Company Chordelia
By Rosemary Waugh
“This hyper-awareness of impending death”: Rosemary Waugh writes on Kally Lloyd-Jones’ dance piece about mortality.
18 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Before by Pat Kinevane
By Rosemary Waugh
Awkward notes: Rosemary Waugh writes on Pat Kinevane’s musical meander through the life of a man who’s lost custody of his daughter.
17 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Deer Woman by Tara Beagan
By Rosemary Waugh
Rosemary Waugh writes on a cliché-resistant narrative of an Indigenous woman’s revenge.
17 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: The Claim by Tim Cowbury
By Rosemary Waugh
Rosemary Waugh reviews Tim Cowbury’s performance in the form of an awkward convo in Summerhall courtyard.
14 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Edinburgh fringe review: Macbeth by Cho-in Theatre
By Rosemary Waugh
Power crazy: Rosemary Waugh writes on how Korean company Cho-in theatre turn Macbeth into a fierce metaphor for ambition.