Artist Nick Field is bringing two new shows to CPT. He chats to Hannah Greenstreet about neoliberalism, Tom Baker, and making work that’s “pretty damn queer”.
Features
21 November 2018
Features • Essays
Theatre and Performance Criticism in the UK: A Survey
By Margherita Laera and Diana Damian Martin
Dr Diana Damian Martin and Dr Margherita Laera introduce their new research project, a survey which will explore who writes about theatre and performance, and map the conditions they work under.
19 November 2018
Features
Fighting theatre’s anti-fatness problem
By Scottee
Scottee is hosting Hamburger Queen, a “talent show for chubsters”. Here, he explains why it’s essential in an industry that doesn’t make room for fat artists and audiences.
16 November 2018
Features • Essays
A Very Very Very Dark Matter, and the limits of satire
By Desiree Baptiste
“This is a play about race matters by a writer for whom race matters not” – Desirée Baptiste’s essay unpicks the racist and ableist themes of Martin McDonagh’s play.
13 November 2018
Features
Jess Latowicki: “I became really interested in what the expectations are for female artists”
By Rosemary Waugh
Rosemary Waugh chats to Jess Latowicki, one half of Made in China, about how their new show Super Duper Close Up draws inspiration from anxiety, feminism – and skincare.
9 November 2018
Features
Opportunity: British Council bursaries for bloggers
By Alice Saville
A new British Council project will support UK bloggers to discover and write about international work.
6 November 2018
Features • West End & Central
If we stormed the West End…
By Exeunt Staff
We dreamed a dream: Exeunt’s writers imagine a takeover of London’s creakiest, most storied theatres.
5 November 2018
Features • Ipswich • Performance
SPILL Festival 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
A mushrooming community: Ava Wong Davies writes on the intimacy and kindness of the works at this year’s instalment of performance art fest SPILL.
1 November 2018
Features
Tempting Failure
By Thomas John Bacon
Earlier this year, Croydon’s biannual performance art festival became the centre of a firestorm of right-wing media hostility. Here, its artistic director Thomas John Bacon writes on what sparked the flames.
29 October 2018
Features
Calling All Fans
By Melanie Rashbrooke
Newcastle-based theatre company The Six Twenty want your stories of music fandom.
25 October 2018
Features
The Trouble with Ticket Schemes
By Fergus Morgan
Following the announcement that the NT’s Travelex sponsorship is coming to an end, Fergus Morgan writes on the trouble with cheap ticket schemes.
22 October 2018
Features
What is ‘good’ theatre?
By Dr Kirsty Sedgman
Audience experience researcher Dr Kirsty Sedgman writes on why ideas of ‘quality’ and ‘value’ in theatre are all but impossible to measure.
15 October 2018
Features • Essays
Is the hype real?
By Alice Saville
As social media takes a starring role in 21st century theatre marketing, Alice Saville writes on the power and pitfalls of Twitter-era criticism.
10 October 2018
Features
“To ‘be in context’ is a luxury”
By Dipika Guha
Director Ailin Conant and playwright Dipika Guha are working on new play ‘The Art of Gaman’. Here, they discuss ideas of belonging, immigrant experience and Japanese-American history.
10 October 2018
Features
Milo Rau’s Theatre of Cooperation and Openness
By Verity Healey
Swiss theatre director Milo Rau’s working methods let members of the public into the rehearsal room. Here, he tells Verity Healey why “community theatre IS theatre”.