Tea House Theatre sparked a Twitter storm after its job listing went viral. Here’s Lauren Mooney on its unpalatable message about undervalued, often female labour in the arts.
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17 July 2017
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Touch at the Soho Theatre
By Rosemary Waugh
Bad sex, jiggly bits, and twenty-something omnishambles: Rosemary Waugh and Gillian Greer conduct an email chat about Touch and young women’s sexuality on stage.
14 July 2017
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Hot Brown Honey: “We will spark the revolutionary flame”
By Bridget Minamore
Bridget Minamore interviews the genre-defying troupe of Australian women of colour.
11 July 2017
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The Welcoming Party
By Aniqah Choudhri
Part of MIF, Theatre-Rites’s new family show uses a cast that includes refugees to explore being different. Aniqah Choudhri speaks to Sue Buckmaster about the complexity behind its storytelling.
6 July 2017
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Why LGBT Theatre Needs to Start Telling New Stories
By Alice Saville
As LGBT Pride approaches, Alice Saville asks why London’s glut of queer theatre is looking to the past, not the future.
3 July 2017
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An Octoroon
By Salome Wagaine
“I am still grappling with finding a work so dispiriting when it’s been so widely loved” – Salome Wagaine on Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ reimagining of a historical slave narrative.
27 June 2017
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A Sneak Preview of Exeunt’s New Zine
By Exeunt Staff
A first look at Exeunt’s second zine, Rites of Spring, plus info on how to get a copy.
22 June 2017
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Art with Heart
By Maddy Costa
How can theatre accommodate neurodiversity? Maddy Costa explores how Art with Heart’s touring show ‘Declaration’ remagines relationships between artist, venue and audience.
20 June 2017
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The Myth of Acceptable Oil Sponsorship
By Jess Worth
The RSC are accepting BP sponsorship – while staging a play about the disastrous impact of climate change. Here’s Jess Worth on the campaign to make the RSC Fossil Free.
19 June 2017
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Farewell (for now) Forest Fringe
By Alice Saville
Following Forest Fringe’s announcement that they will no longer be running their free Edinburgh Fringe venue, Alice Saville remembers the invaluable spaces they created.
16 June 2017
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Slow Theatre
By Alice Saville
Amy Draper’s ‘These Trees are Made of Blood’ took years to move from initial seed of an idea to a full production. Here, she writes on why ideas need time to germinate.
14 June 2017
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#WakingTheFeminists: The Numbers are Out
By Chris McCormack
A new report, Gender Counts, reveals stark statistics about the under-representation of women in Irish Theatre. Chris McCormack asks: What next?
12 June 2017
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Fringe Programme Poetry
By Natasha Tripney
“Who is torturing whom?” Natasha Tripney crafts a cut-up poem from the fever dream that is the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe programme.
9 June 2017
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Roy Alexander Weise: “It’s insulting not to represent the London around your audience”
By Bridget Minamore
Bridget Minamore chats to the JMK award-winning young director as ‘The Ugly One’ opens at Park Theatre.
6 June 2017
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: “No one is really challenged to think bigger”
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville chats to the writer of ‘An Octoroon’ about New York’s alt-theatre scene, reimagining historical plays, and the “weird echo chamber” of theatre criticism.