Lily Levinson writes on the seismic generational divides in Romania’s theatre scene, and the embattled political companies that are fighting for change.
Features
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.
27 May 2019
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Arming an Armadillo
By Rosemary Waugh
Writer Sarah Kosar and director Sara Joyce talk about narratives of victimhood, female agency, and their new show Armadillo.
24 May 2019
Features
A Forest Fringe Film
By Andy Field
After building a free DIY film school, Forest Fringe are making a movie this summer. Here’s Andy Field on why.
14 May 2019
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Recasting Death of a Salesman
By J N Benjamin
“We’re not asking the audience not to see the colour of their skin – we are specifically asking them to look at it” – Miranda Cromwell, Marianne Elliott and Wendell Pierce discuss the impact of casting black actors in Miller’s play.
13 May 2019
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Anchuli Felicia King: “You have to recognise the shithole you’re in, in order to climb out.”
By Ava Wong Davies
Playwright Anchuli Felicia King’s grimly comic satire of the Singapore skin-lightening industry opens at the Royal Court this week. In this interview, she discusses Mamet, Crazy Rich Asians, and late-stage capitalism.
8 May 2019
Features • Festivals • Performance
Transform 2019: Geographical Accidents
By James Varney
James Varney writes on live art festival Transform, and explores how its line-up intertwines with the Leeds streets that surround it.
7 May 2019
Features
Immersive theatre, and the consenting audience
By Alice Saville
Immersive shows like Barzakh push their audiences to extremes. But can you really consent to an experience you know nothing about?