A desperate need for dialogue: Katherina Radeva writes on why she’s organising a day of ideas-sharing around questions of otherness and identity.
Features
23 April 2018
Features
In Defence of Some Unfairly Maligned Shows
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt’s writers pick some shows – from brave experiments to commercial mainstays – that they think deserved a better critical reception.
16 April 2018
Features • Essays
Mishandled Archive
By Tara Fatehi Irani
Tara Fatehi Irani writes on her year-long project, making 365 performance-installations which shared micro-histories from her family archive from Tehran.
12 April 2018
Features • Essays • Festivals
NSDF: Making Change
By Naomi Obeng
Naomi Obeng reports back from National Student Drama Festival’s collective conversations on how to make spaces fairer, more accessible, and more representative.
11 April 2018
Features • Dialogues
Roundtable: Working Conditions and Pay in Theatre Design
By Francesca Peschier
Ahead of an open meeting on ‘The Value of Design’, eight designers at all career levels discuss the struggle for fair working conditions.
9 April 2018
Features • Essays
On (not) watching gendered violence on stage
By Eve Leigh
Five years ago, playwright Eve Leigh made a decision not to watch plays, movies and TV shows that involved violence against female bodies. She unravels her thoughts, in list form.
5 April 2018
Features
Ellie Dubois: “Circus is a device in the toolkit I use to make a show”
By Alice Saville
Ellie Dubois’s shows blur the line between circus and live art. She talks pushing at the limits, gender, and why circus needs more criticism.
3 April 2018
Features
Theatre’s missing accents
By Francesca Peschier
Francesca Peschier explores how regional and working class accents are both underused and misused by theatre.
28 March 2018
Features • Festivals
Alchymy Festival
By Hannah Greenstreet
Hannah Greenstreet chats to Ellie Keel, producer of Alchymy – a unique Oxford-based festival that’s all about developing new theatre.
26 March 2018
Features
Exeunt’s (Mostly) Irrational Theatre Dislikes
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt’s writers get together for a cathartic collective airing of their long-harboured, but deeply petty theatre-related gripes.
20 March 2018
Features • Essays
Dramaturgy Under Capitalism
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Frey Kwa Hawking explores the slippery territory of defining a dramaturg’s role, and forging a practice in a world that requires both productions and people to be marketable.
19 March 2018
Features
Exeunt Recommends (Mar 19, 2018)
By Exeunt Staff
It’s snowing. Again. But here are some shows our writers think it’s well worth venturing outside for.
14 March 2018
Features
The Party Somewhere Else
By Emily Holyoake
A collective of 12 women are challenging Nottingham’s art scene to change, with a brand new festival of female-led work.
6 March 2018
Features
Boycotting Work by Unpaid Creatives Isn’t the Answer
By Alice Saville
Some thoughts on work and exploitation, following Mark Shenton’s statement that he’ll no longer go to shows made by unpaid creatives.
5 March 2018
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Ultimate Dancer: “It’s liberating to let go of the limitations of being human”
By Diana Damian Martin
Performance artist Ultimate Dancer makes work that mingles choreography and spirituality. Here, she talks healing rituals, movement, and the power of darkness.