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.
Features
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.
4 July 2019
Features
Romania’s divided political theatre landscape
By Lily Levinson
Lily Levinson writes on the seismic generational divides in Romania’s theatre scene, and the embattled political companies that are fighting for change.
3 July 2019
Features
Jasmine Lee-Jones and Milli Bhatia: “Why do we have to inherit structures in order to make stuff?”
By Ava Wong Davies
Milli Bhatia and Jasmine Lee-Jones discuss ‘seven methods of killing kylie jenner’, confronting power structures, and bringing black Twitter to the stage.
1 July 2019
Features • Essays
Hearty: Bringing Fire to Trans Pride
By Emma Frankland
Emma Frankland writes on her new show Hearty, and the shifting cycles which underpin attitudes to trans identity.
26 June 2019
Features
Some questions for the Edinburgh Fringe
By Jo Mackie
Prices for accommodation at the Edinburgh Fringe are up 35% this year. Here, independent producer Jo Mackie asks what it will take to reform the fringe.
25 June 2019
Features • Festivals
A transformative tour of Prague Quadrennial
By Francesca Peschier
“It’s a space built from light and mirrors and impossibilities”: Francesca Peschier takes you on a trip to Prague’s mind-blowing festival of scenography from around the world.
12 June 2019
Features • Essays
Do trigger warnings ruin theatre’s power to surprise?
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes on theatre’s uneasy relationship with trigger warnings, and the faultlines they reveal.
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.