Following the announcement that Lyn Gardner’s position as Guardian theatre critic is being cut, Andy Field writes on why her role is too important to be lost.
Features
2 May 2018
Features
No More Heroes
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville considers questions of reputation and legacy in an industry that’s in love with its own history.
30 April 2018
Features • Essays
Nocturne
By Andy Field
Andy Field writes on how encounters with the natural world inspired a new night-time performance, on as part of LIFT Festival 2018.
27 April 2018
Features • Essays
Have we actually broken Shakespeare?
By Hailey Bachrach
In Shakespeare’s birthday week, Hailey Bachrach argues that there’s nothing dull about recent reinventions of his work.
24 April 2018
Features • Essays
Breaking Bread
By Katherina Radeva
A desperate need for dialogue: Katherina Radeva writes on why she’s organising a day of ideas-sharing around questions of otherness and identity.
23 April 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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.