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6 January 2022
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Pandemic Songs
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa tells the story of Unfolding Theatre’s first pandemic year, and reflects on the unexpectedly hopeful lessons learned in 2020.
22 December 2021
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Exeunt Writers’ Favourite Shows of 2021
By Exeunt Staff
An omnivorous look back on a year of digital theatre, live performance, dance & more.
15 December 2021
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Roundtable: Getting the spark back
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt’s writers talk about the moments and performances that jolted them out of pandemic-induced apathy.
2 December 2021
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The Jews Are Tired: The Royal Court, Rare Earth Mettle, and Why Enough is Enough
By Emma Jude Harris
Emma Jude Harris writes on Rare Earth Mettle and what it reveals about antisemitism in UK theatre.
25 November 2021
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Free Pizza Makes Everything Feel Possible
By David Byrne
NDT artistic director David Byrne explains why he’s accompanying the theatre’s new season with tasty freebies.
16 November 2021
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Young love and conflict
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes about Old Bridge, and a recent spate of plays which set poignant love stories against the backdrop of tumultuous world events.
5 November 2021
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Theatre’s hiring crisis
By Alice Saville
As theatres fight to find and retain backstage workers, Alice Saville talks to people on the frontline of theatre’s hiring crisis.
12 October 2021
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How do we begin to heal from all this?
By the vacuum cleaner
Artist the vacuum cleaner talks about his interviews with health workers in Newham, and how his new installation-performance EXPOSURE aims to create a space for exploring collective trauma.
9 September 2021
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“Please, please, please wear your mask in the theatre”
By Alice Saville
An imaginary conversation between two theatregoers at a mostly-maskless West End show.
31 August 2021
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Censor, censorship, and theatre’s 21st century video nasties
By Natasha Tripney
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.
30 August 2021
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Edinburgh 2021: An ending, a beginning
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes about the strangeness and specialness of 2021’s smaller-than-ever fringe festival.
15 July 2021
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Has the pandemic been a step back for working class inclusion in theatre?
By Holly Maples and Allie Young
“This is not a leveller”: Holly Maples and Allie Young explore the pandemic’s impact on working class artists, as part of the Freelancers in the Dark research project.
23 June 2021
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“the world is so different now” – seven methods of killing kylie jenner, revisited
By Ava Wong Davies
Two years after it premiered, seven methods is moving from Royal Court’s studio to its main house. Ava Wong Davies asks its director Milli Bhatia about what’s changed.
17 June 2021
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The Edinburgh Fringe is in limbo: who’s going to secure its future?
By Alice Saville
It’s still unclear what form 2021’s Edinburgh Fringe is going to take. Alice Saville argues that for the festival to survive, deeper conversation and decisive change is needed.