Catherine Love encounters a “a Choose Your Own Adventure storybook of performance” at Emergency Festival in Manchester.

Anthony Neilson’s new play, ‘Unreachable’, opens at the Royal Court this week. Catherine Love sits in on the rehearsals, and explores mainstream theatre’s reluctance to stage devised work.

Translating Theatre is a research and practice-based project that aims to spark intercultural dialogue. As part of a series of essays from the project, Catherine Love steps into the rehearsal room to explore the elusive rules of humour and ‘foreignisation’.

Catherine Love explores the principles of ensemble theatre making, by observing the Birmingham Rep’s Foundry company at work. From Stanislavsky to Secret Theatre, she looks at how actor-focused ensemble work helps create theatre that’s built from communities.