Natasha Tripney finds destruction, renewal, and numbing violence at Belgrade’s festival of avant garde theatre from across Europe.
Features
25 September 2019
Features
New perspectives on the body at ImPulsTanz, Vienna’s International Dance Festival
By Lisa Moravec
Researcher and critic Lisa Moravec explores ideas of bodily dressage in Peter Stamer’s and Frank Willens’s In the Penal Colony and Willen’s group dance Radiant Optimism.
18 September 2019
Features • Essays
Ticket prices keep rising; why aren’t we rioting?
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes on 1809’s Old Price Riots, and what they can teach commercial theatre producers over two centuries later.
16 September 2019
Features • Essays
Relaxed venues, liberated audiences
By Maddy Costa
“To react and respond is just human”: Maddy Costa writes on how audiences are silenced, and the complex history of ideas of ‘civilised’ behaviour.
12 September 2019
Features • Q&A and Interviews
FullRogue Theatre: “The cult of confidence has to go”
By Ben Kulvichit
In this interview with Ben Kulvichit, the writer-director duo discuss their show Wild Swimming, symbiosis, and why emerging artists need to make mistakes.
9 September 2019
Features • Essays
The Doctor, and theatre’s troubled relationship with identity politics
By Ravi Ghosh
Ravi Ghosh writes on Rob Icke’s dive into minority identity, and why audiences need to be pushed towards self-examination, not self-congratulation.
2 September 2019
Features • Essays
If not now, when?: Falsettogate, and what it teaches us about meaningful minority inclusion
By Adam Lenson
Theatre director Adam Lenson writes on the Falsettos casting controversy, and why the Jewish community needs to be involved in telling its own stories.
25 August 2019
Features • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
An Odyssey of Onstage Queer Orgasms
By Francesca Peschier
Francesca Peschier writes on the shows bringing ecstatic moments and authentic queer people of colour’s experiences to the Edinburgh fringe.
14 August 2019
Features • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
A stinky and rainy (but actually really fun) kids’ fringe adventure
By Duska Radosavljevic
A dialogue review of Edinburgh fringe’s sights, shows and smells by Joakim (aged five) and Katarina (aged three-and-a-half).
12 August 2019
Features • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Exeunt recommends: Edinburgh Fringe highlights so far
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt is proudly flying the flag for longform criticism at the fringe. Too busy to read it all? Here’s a handy digest of the shows our writers love.
29 July 2019
Features
Are theatre’s schemes and awards deterring a new generation of talent?
By Holly Williams
Emerging directors leap through ever-shifting hoops for a chance to work at the UK’s biggest theatres. Holly Williams asks: is the system working?
24 July 2019
Features
A Helter Skelter Ride Through Latitude
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville sorts the (pink) sheep from the GOATs in her write-up of 2019’s frenetic Latitude festival.
23 July 2019
Features • Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Exeunt’s 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Picks
By Exeunt Staff
Spreadsheets at the ready: Exeunt’s fringe recommendations are here, thoughtfully themed for your reading pleasure.
17 July 2019
Features • Dialogues • West End & Central
Some remorselessly petty quibbles with West End shows
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt’s writers have some unashamedly petty bones to pick with theatre world’s biggest hits, past and present.
16 July 2019
Features
Encounters With Reykjavik Fringe
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville discovers a fringe arts explosion at Iceland’s new festival of grassroots performance.