As the theatre calendar goes into overdrive, Alice Saville writes on the time-and-space challenges of trying, and failing, to see everything.
Essays
22 May 2018
Features • Essays
A Programming Model That Puts Artists First
By David Byrne
The New Diorama Theatre is revolutionising the way it’s programmed. Here’s the venue’s AD David Byrne on why he’s putting companies first.
16 May 2018
Features • Essays
On Not Quitting Your Day Job
By Naomi Joseph
In response to Hannah Khalil’s blog post, Naomi Joseph explores how theatremakers manage multiple careers.
9 May 2018
Features • Essays
Lyn Gardner: Where the Edges Meet the Centre
By Andy Field
Following the announcement that Lyn Gardner’s position as Guardian theatre critic is being cut, Andy Field writes on why her role is too important to be lost.
30 April 2018
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Nocturne
By Andy Field
Andy Field writes on how encounters with the natural world inspired a new night-time performance, on as part of LIFT Festival 2018.
27 April 2018
Features • Essays
Have we actually broken Shakespeare?
By Hailey Bachrach
In Shakespeare’s birthday week, Hailey Bachrach argues that there’s nothing dull about recent reinventions of his work.
24 April 2018
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Breaking Bread
By Katherina Radeva
A desperate need for dialogue: Katherina Radeva writes on why she’s organising a day of ideas-sharing around questions of otherness and identity.
16 April 2018
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Mishandled Archive
By Tara Fatehi Irani
Tara Fatehi Irani writes on her year-long project, making 365 performance-installations which shared micro-histories from her family archive from Tehran.
12 April 2018
Features • Essays • Festivals
NSDF: Making Change
By Naomi Obeng
Naomi Obeng reports back from National Student Drama Festival’s collective conversations on how to make spaces fairer, more accessible, and more representative.
9 April 2018
Features • Essays
On (not) watching gendered violence on stage
By Eve Leigh
Five years ago, playwright Eve Leigh made a decision not to watch plays, movies and TV shows that involved violence against female bodies. She unravels her thoughts, in list form.
20 March 2018
Features • Essays
Dramaturgy Under Capitalism
By Frey Kwa Hawking
Frey Kwa Hawking explores the slippery territory of defining a dramaturg’s role, and forging a practice in a world that requires both productions and people to be marketable.
20 February 2018
Features • Essays
Richard III Redux
By Kaite O Reilly
Kaite O’Reilly writes on cripping up, and how her new production offers a witty, feminist, alternative disability perspective on Shakespeare’s history play.
19 February 2018
Features • Essays
A New Era for Women in Circus
By Poppy Burton-Morgan
Poppy Burton-Morgan explores how female-led circus companies are dismantling and reimagining gender on stage.
15 February 2018
Features • Essays
Black Girl Magic
By Giselle LeBleu
Ahead of her show ‘The Year of the Rooster Monk’ at Vault Festival, Giselle LeBleu writes on resurrecting pre-digital ghosts and channeling dark forces.
5 February 2018
Features • Essays
The Other Side of Outreach
By Adrian Jackson
The artistic director of Cardboard Citizens talks theatre and oppression, in response to Nathan Lucky Wood’s piece ‘The Trouble With Outreach’.