As Waterloo’s ever-growing arts festival returns for 2018, Alice Saville asks its co-director Mat Burt what it offers young companies.
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25 January 2018
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Beyond Nervous Laughter
By Francesca Peschier
Four Vault Festival shows are combining belly laughs with explorations of life with mental health conditions like anxiety and depression. Francesca Peschier chats to some of their creators.
24 January 2018
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Javaad Alipoor: “Theatres are chasing the same audiences they’ve had forever”
By Zain Dada
As ‘The Believers Are But Brothers’ opens at Bush Theatre, its creator talks radicalisation, Prevent and making work outside London.
23 January 2018
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Farewell to The Bike Shed Theatre
By David Byrne
Today, Exeter’s Bike Shed Theatre announces that it will close at the end of March. Here’s David Byrne on what makes the venue so magical.
18 January 2018
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Emotional Safety in the Rehearsal Room
By Nicole Acquah
Ahead of her performance ‘For a Black Girl’, Nicole Acquah explores ideas of emotional safety and self-care in the rehearsal room.
9 January 2018
Features • Essays
The Trouble With Outreach
By Nathan Lucky Wood
Playwright and youth worker Nathan Lucky Wood asks why work being made with ‘hard-to-reach’ groups is so closely focused around their most difficult experiences
8 January 2018
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Racheal Ofori: “People listen to poetry”
By Nicole Acquah
Ahead of her show ‘So Many Reasons’ at feminist festival Calm Down Dear, the writer and performer talks mother-daughter relationships, bypassing gatekeepers, and how to ‘jolt’ an audience.
2 January 2018
Features • Essays
Theatre Prefects
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville explores why it’s time to stop talking about ‘theatre etiquette’, and to start thinking about the behaviour of all sections of the audience.
22 December 2017
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Exeunt’s Favourite London Shows of 2017
By Exeunt Staff
We polled our London writers on their top ten shows of 2017 – here are the results.
19 December 2017
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Exeunt’s Most Memorable Regional Theatre 2017
By Exeunt Staff
Serving as your annual reminder of all the brilliant theatre happening around the UK and Ireland, Exeunt’s critics select their favourite productions from outside of London in 2017.
18 December 2017
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Exeunt’s Dance Highlights of 2017
By Exeunt Staff
Post-coital laziness, ragtime romps, and a deathly birthday party: here’s Exeunt’s dance critics on their favourite shows of 2017.
15 December 2017
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Exeunt’s Festive Zine Bonanza
By Exeunt Staff
Get your mitts on some Exeunt zines from Christmases past, present and future – and support some really worthwhile festive causes.
12 December 2017
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The Exeunt Awards
By Exeunt Staff
The wait is over: Exeunt’s writers announce the winners of some highly prestigious (if unconventional) accolades.
6 December 2017
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Callisto: A Queer Epic
By Hannah Greenstreet
Hannah Greenstreet sits in on rehearsals for Forward Arena’s queer, time-hopping epic.
4 December 2017
Features • Essays
Why it’s time for theatre to embrace grime
By Ifeyinwa Frederick
“Hard-to-reach audiences are not hard to reach if you speak their language” – Ifeyinwa Frederick argues for a new direction for theatre.