Exeunt’s London writers choose the shows that they loved, fought for, and couldn’t stop talking about in 2018.
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12 December 2018
Features • Essays
An Open(ness) Letter on Transparency
By Duncan Gates
For every play that makes it to the stage, there are many more languishing under commission. Duncan Gates makes a case for more transparency in new writing for theatre.
10 December 2018
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Queer Migrant Takeover
By Frey Kwa Hawking
As Brexit looms, a series of live art parties are creating space to explore multicultural LGBT+ experiences.
3 December 2018
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Misty’s Understudy Run
By J N Benjamin
“The change is small but the difference is mighty” – J N Benjamin writes on how Misty was transformed in the hands of Arinzé Kene’s female understudy, Kibong Tanji.
28 November 2018
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Jackie Hagan: “The whole class-rage thing was bubbling and bubbling”
By James Varney
James Varney interviews performance-maker Jackie Hagan about access and telling the stories of “real people who are having a hard time”
26 November 2018
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Nick Field: “Neoliberalism is collapsing around us”
By Hannah Greenstreet
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”.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Calling All Fans
By Melanie Rashbrooke
Newcastle-based theatre company The Six Twenty want your stories of music fandom.