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Rosemary Waugh


Rosemary Waugh

Rosemary is a freelance arts and theatre journalist, who regularly writes for Time Out and The Stage.


Articles by Rosemary Waugh


Naomi Sheldon: “A pregnant madness”
19 April 2021
Features

Naomi Sheldon: “A pregnant madness”

By Rosemary Waugh

Playwright Naomi Sheldon chats to Rosemary Waugh about her pandemic pregnancy, sex, and channelling emotional turbulence into action.


Natalie Ibu: “I think the sector has been too seduced by the idea of new and young and sexy”
25 February 2021
Features • Q&A and Interviews

Natalie Ibu: “I think the sector has been too seduced by the idea of new and young and sexy”

By Rosemary Waugh

The new artistic director of Northern Stage talks doomscrolling, digital theatre, and fighting to bring back the artists that theatre’s lost.


Review: May Contain Food by Protein (online)
15 February 2021
Reviews

Review: May Contain Food by Protein (online)

By Rosemary Waugh

Good enough to eat: Rosemary Waugh cooks along with a show that explores our relationship with food.


Bryony Shanahan: “We need to laugh together and cry together to try to figure this thing out.”
15 December 2020
Features

Bryony Shanahan: “We need to laugh together and cry together to try to figure this thing out.”

By Rosemary Waugh

Rosemary Waugh interviews the co-artistic director of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre about her tumultuous first year in the job.


Review: The Dumb Waiter at Hampstead Theatre
10 December 2020
Reviews

Review: The Dumb Waiter at Hampstead Theatre

By Rosemary Waugh

Low-growling discord: Rosemary Waugh reviews a tense 60th anniversary revival of Harold Pinter’s play.


Debbie Hannan: “I’m stepping onto the ship at the exact moment it’s hitting the iceberg!” 
8 October 2020
Features

Debbie Hannan: “I’m stepping onto the ship at the exact moment it’s hitting the iceberg!” 

By Rosemary Waugh

Traverse Theatre’s incoming co-artistic director Debbie Hannan talks class, the fringe, and rethinking theatre’s power structures.


Review: Squad Goals, Dagenham and Redbridge FC
28 September 2020
Reviews

Review: Squad Goals, Dagenham and Redbridge FC

By Rosemary Waugh

Star Players: Rosemary Waugh writes on a site-specific show celebrating the ‘mud-splattered-flood-lit revolution’ that is women’s football.


Review: Opera Helps by Joshua Sofaer
21 August 2020
Reviews • Opera

Review: Opera Helps by Joshua Sofaer

By Rosemary Waugh

Friendly overtures: Rosemary Waugh writes on her confidence-boosting one-to-one therapy session from an opera singer.


Tim Cowbury and Mark Maughan: “It’s a completely fucked system”
18 February 2020
Features

Tim Cowbury and Mark Maughan: “It’s a completely fucked system”

By Rosemary Waugh

The Claim is a Kafka-esque dive into the UK’s asylum system. Here, its creators talk bureaucracy, funding, and making political theatre without the capital ‘P’.


Review: The Visit at National Theatre
17 February 2020
Reviews • West End & Central

Review: The Visit at National Theatre

By Rosemary Waugh

Elegantly wasted: Rosemary Waugh writes on Tony Kushner’s elaborate, infuriating rewrite of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play.


Review: Lungs at the Old Vic
21 October 2019
Reviews • West End & Central

Review: Lungs at the Old Vic

By Rosemary Waugh

“We’re good people right?” – Rosemary Waugh writes on the normal people of Duncan Macmillan’s climate change play.


Review: A Very Expensive Poison at Old Vic
7 September 2019
Reviews • West End & Central

Review: A Very Expensive Poison at Old Vic

By Rosemary Waugh

Unreliable narratives: Rosemary Waugh writes on Lucy Prebble’s metatheatrical story of Litvinenko’s poisoning.


Review: Bartholomew Fair at Shakespeare’s Globe
1 September 2019
Reviews

Review: Bartholomew Fair at Shakespeare’s Globe

By Rosemary Waugh

Freaky fairground mirrors: Rosemary Waugh writes on a playful take on Ben Jonson’s challenging play.


Edinburgh fringe review: The Chosen by Company Chordelia
19 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019

Edinburgh fringe review: The Chosen by Company Chordelia

By Rosemary Waugh

“This hyper-awareness of impending death”: Rosemary Waugh writes on Kally Lloyd-Jones’ dance piece about mortality.


Edinburgh fringe review: Before by Pat Kinevane
18 August 2019
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2019

Edinburgh fringe review: Before by Pat Kinevane

By Rosemary Waugh

Awkward notes: Rosemary Waugh writes on Pat Kinevane’s musical meander through the life of a man who’s lost custody of his daughter.


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