Immersive shows like Barzakh push their audiences to extremes. But can you really consent to an experience you know nothing about?
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29 April 2019
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Ridiculusmus: “We move at the pace of turtles mating”
By Kate Wyver
Kate Wyver and her grandmother interview the experimental theatre duo Ridiculusmus, as they rehearse a new show about getting older and slowing down.
25 April 2019
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Performing Yourself
By Claire Gaydon
YouTubers and live artists alike are under pressure to share personal information about their lives. Claire Gaydon writes on the risks of making confessional work, and the need to find ways to protect yourself.
15 April 2019
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Dialogue: The things that make you fall back in love with theatre
By Exeunt Staff
Exeunt writers talk about the shifting emotional landscape of their relationship with theatre, and explore what it’s like to fall in, and out, of love.
10 April 2019
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Dialogue Theatre Club
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa writes on the community-building, conversation-starting power of Theatre Clubs, which make space for audiences to discuss the work they’ve seen.
8 April 2019
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Encounter: “Eventually everything just gets pulled into our world”
By Jen Malarkey and Lee Mattinson
Jen Malarkey and Lee Mattinson make surreal and unsettling performance together. Here, they talk about grief, working with kids, and their new show ‘The Kids Are Alright’.
3 April 2019
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Integrated Access: Making shows for plural audiences
By Alice Saville
“To make one homogenous show is, to me, increasingly nonsensical”: Rachel Bagshaw and Tamar Saphra talk about making work which actively includes disabled and non-disabled audiences.
1 April 2019
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Queer-positive messaging in family theatre
By Poppy Burton-Morgan
As debates erupt over LGBT+ education in schools, Poppy Burton-Morgan writes on the power of family theatre to create new role models.
28 March 2019
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Idols and Superstitions – A Conversation Between Jamal Gerald and Maddy Costa
By Maddy Costa
Eavesdrop on Jamal Gerald and Maddy Costa’s conversation about spirituality, their working relationship and his new show ‘Idol’.
25 March 2019
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An Emilia Dialogue
By Hannah Greenstreet
As Emilia hits the West End, Hannah Greenstreet and Amy Borsuk discuss its metatheatricality, its Jewish parallels, its role as feminist historical fiction, and more.
20 March 2019
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The Color Purple; who gets to play gay?
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes on what ‘The Color Purple’ casting controversy says about theatre producers’ attitudes towards queer actors, and queer audiences.
19 March 2019
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The Extraordinary Bodies of Aerial Circus
By Francesca Peschier
“So how do we talk about the flying body, this body in space?”: Francesca Peschier interviews two female circus artists about objectification, challenging beauty norms, and soaring through the air.
19 March 2019
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New Queers on the Road
By Exeunt Staff
Brighton’s Marlborough Theatre is taking queer live art on tour across the UK – and they’ve made a new documentary about the project. Watch it here.
14 March 2019
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Theatre’s Plans for Brexit Weekend
By Alice Saville
A tear-stained rundown of all the ways in which the UK’s theatre scene will mark Britain’s (probable) parting of ways with the EU.
10 March 2019
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Simon Stone’s Medea (and Yerma)
By Rosemary Waugh
“There’s a pervasive stench of exhaustion running though everything” – Rosemary Waugh writes on Simon Stone’s Medea, and why it spoke to her in a way that his Yerma didn’t.