After the furore over a very public dialogue about the New York Times review of Big River, Exeunt’s writers debate whether and how theatremakers should respond to reviews.
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8 March 2017
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Lucy J. Skilbeck: “Gender is farcical.”
By Alice Saville
Joan is a fiercely brilliant, drag king take on medieval history. Alice Saville chats to its creator Lucy J. Skilbeck about queer politics, Milk Presents, and why theatre should follow drag’s lead.
6 March 2017
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Opportunity: Columnist
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt is recruiting a paid black or minority ethnic columnist, to help widen the conversation around theatre. Read on for more details.
23 February 2017
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Queer women on stage: Representation v. exploitation
By Alice Saville
There’s a long history of same-sex romance between women being exploited as a male fantasy. Naomi Westerman talks about rejecting the male gaze, and her new play Puppy.
22 February 2017
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Sonja Linden: “I want to challenge our audience to rethink attitudes to older people”
By Rosemary Waugh
As Roundelay opens at the Southwark Playhouse, playwright Sonja Linden talks to Rosemary Waugh about why sex and relationships involving older people are rarely discussed.
20 February 2017
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Picking My Scabs for Your Entertainment
By Alice Saville
Scottee’s new show Bravado is an unsparing look at his relationship with masculinity. Here, he looks at confessional performance, self care, and asks “Must all working class artists bleed for their supper?”
16 February 2017
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A Battle for Contextual Criticism
By Nicole Serratore
A New York Times review sparked fury for critiquing Mark Twain’s racial politics. Here, Nicole Serratore steps into the critical dispute over Big River and representation in theatre.
13 February 2017
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Why theatre needs to love film, not fear it
By Alice Saville
As cinema, TV broadcasts and online streaming offer more and more ways to watch performance, Alice Saville asks why the theatre world is so slow to embrace the potential of film.
6 February 2017
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Busty Beatz: “I’m responding to capitalism, patriarchy, elitism.”
By Maddy Costa
Busty Beatz, MD of Hot Brown Honey, is on residency at Wellcome Collection as part of The Sick Of The Fringe. She talks to Maddy Costa about making the personal political, and confronting Wellcome’s colonialism.
3 February 2017
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The Trouble With ‘National’ Theatre
By Fergus Morgan
“Olivier, Hall, and Nunn had it easy. Norris has it all to do.” As Rufus Norris comes under attack, Fergus Morgan explores the troublesome business of theatre and nation building.
2 February 2017
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John Berger’s Intimate Relationship with Theatre
By Alice Saville
The novelist and critic John Berger died at the beginning of this year. Here, Richard Turney explores his work’s “porous and fertile border” with the theatre world, and his influence on Chris Goode and Simon McBurney.
1 February 2017
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An open letter to David Hare
By Duska Radosavljevic
“At any other time it would have been enough to just roll one’s eyes and move on. Not anymore.” Dramaturg and academic Duška Radosavljević responds to David Hare’s tirade against European-influenced director’s theatre.
31 January 2017
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Writing for Calais
By Maddy Costa
After two decades of writing about performance, Maddy Costa is taking a frightening leap into writing for the stage. She explains why Crew For Calais’s work inspired her to tell the stories of last year’s chaotic refugee camp clearances.
30 January 2017
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Sci-fi Theatre: Why it’s time to embrace the weird
By Alice Saville
Playwright and passionate Doctor Who fan Tim Foley argues that it’s time that sci-fi in theatre came of age, ahead of his post-Brexit dystopia Astronauts of Hartlepool.
25 January 2017
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Powder Keg: “We have a platform, so we might as well use it to do some immediate good.”
By James Varney
Josh Coates and Emma Geraghty of Powder Keg talk to James Varney about Morale is High (Since We Gave Up Hope) and making theatre at a time of political uncertainty.