Alice Saville writes on theatre’s uneasy relationship with trigger warnings, and the faultlines they reveal.
Features
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.
6 June 2019
Features
Rebekah Murrell: “It is becoming less OK to not acknowledge the greatness of Blackness”
By J N Benjamin
Rebekah Murrell is directing J’Ouvert, a tale of carnival culture at Theatre503. Here, she talks unconventional career paths, ticket prices, and the renaissance in Black theatre.
3 June 2019
Features • Festivals
Somewhere different, somewhere else
By Andrew Edwards
Andy Edwards writes on four encounters with Glasgow’s Take Me Somewhere, an annual festival of live performance.
27 May 2019
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Arming an Armadillo
By Rosemary Waugh
Writer Sarah Kosar and director Sara Joyce talk about narratives of victimhood, female agency, and their new show Armadillo.
24 May 2019
Features
A Forest Fringe Film
By Andy Field
After building a free DIY film school, Forest Fringe are making a movie this summer. Here’s Andy Field on why.
14 May 2019
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Recasting Death of a Salesman
By J N Benjamin
“We’re not asking the audience not to see the colour of their skin – we are specifically asking them to look at it” – Miranda Cromwell, Marianne Elliott and Wendell Pierce discuss the impact of casting black actors in Miller’s play.
13 May 2019
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Anchuli Felicia King: “You have to recognise the shithole you’re in, in order to climb out.”
By Ava Wong Davies
Playwright Anchuli Felicia King’s grimly comic satire of the Singapore skin-lightening industry opens at the Royal Court this week. In this interview, she discusses Mamet, Crazy Rich Asians, and late-stage capitalism.
8 May 2019
Features • Festivals • Performance
Transform 2019: Geographical Accidents
By James Varney
James Varney writes on live art festival Transform, and explores how its line-up intertwines with the Leeds streets that surround it.
7 May 2019
Features
Immersive theatre, and the consenting audience
By Alice Saville
Immersive shows like Barzakh push their audiences to extremes. But can you really consent to an experience you know nothing about?
29 April 2019
Features
Ridiculusmus: “We move at the pace of turtles mating”
By Kate Wyver
Kate Wyver and her grandmother interview the experimental theatre duo Ridiculusmus, as they rehearse a new show about getting older and slowing down.
25 April 2019
Features
Performing Yourself
By Claire Gaydon
YouTubers and live artists alike are under pressure to share personal information about their lives. Claire Gaydon writes on the risks of making confessional work, and the need to find ways to protect yourself.
15 April 2019
Features
Dialogue: The things that make you fall back in love with theatre
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt writers talk about the shifting emotional landscape of their relationship with theatre, and explore what it’s like to fall in, and out, of love.
10 April 2019
Features
Dialogue Theatre Club
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa writes on the community-building, conversation-starting power of Theatre Clubs, which make space for audiences to discuss the work they’ve seen.
8 April 2019
Features
Encounter: “Eventually everything just gets pulled into our world”
By Jen Malarkey and Lee Mattinson
Jen Malarkey and Lee Mattinson make surreal and unsettling performance together. Here, they talk about grief, working with kids, and their new show ‘The Kids Are Alright’.