Dive into the unknown: Ben Kulvichit live blogs his journey through 2019’s Fierce Festival.
Festivals
25 June 2019
Features • Festivals
A transformative tour of Prague Quadrennial
By Francesca Peschier
“It’s a space built from light and mirrors and impossibilities”: Francesca Peschier takes you on a trip to Prague’s mind-blowing festival of scenography from around the world.
3 June 2019
Features • Festivals
Somewhere different, somewhere else
By Andrew Edwards
Andy Edwards writes on four encounters with Glasgow’s Take Me Somewhere, an annual festival of live performance.
8 May 2019
Features • Festivals • Performance
Transform 2019: Geographical Accidents
By James Varney
James Varney writes on live art festival Transform, and explores how its line-up intertwines with the Leeds streets that surround it.
26 July 2018
Features • Festivals
Latitude 2018: Utopia
By Rosie MacPherson
New Bryony Kimmings, Middle Child, Theatre Ad Infinitum and more: Rose McPherson explores the world-building joys of this year’s festival.
2 June 2018
Features • Festivals
Hidden Door Festival 2018
By Andrew Edwards
“The scale, despite the ramshackle surroundings, is huge.” – Andrew Edwards writes on the joys of Leith’s eclectic multi-disciplinary arts festival.
1 June 2018
Features • Festivals
Watch Out Festival 2018
By Naomi Obeng
Naomi Obeng encounters transformation, an intergalactic mission, bingo, and tons of exciting new performance at Cambridge Junction’s one day fest.
17 May 2018
Features • Festivals
A walking tour of Theatertreffen 2018
By Katie Hawthorne
Katie Hawthorne evokes the shows, controversies, and nerdy theatre in-jokes of Berlin’s annual theatre festival.
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.
28 March 2018
Features • Festivals
Alchymy Festival
By Hannah Greenstreet
Hannah Greenstreet chats to Ellie Keel, producer of Alchymy – a unique Oxford-based festival that’s all about developing new theatre.
11 August 2017
Features • Festivals
Round up: Dance at Wilderness 2017
By Rachel Elderkin
From samba-inspired workshops to dancing naked: Rachel Elderkin reviews a selection of the dance line up at Wilderness 2017.
1 June 2017
Features • Festivals • Germany • International • Reviews
Theatertreffen: A dialogue
By Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson and Annegret Märten discover metatheatrics, total theatre and a fug of Ostalgie at Berlin’s fortnight-long festival of German theatre.
13 July 2015
Features • Festivals
All Kinds of Magic
By Annegret Märten
A visit to the Edinburgh International Magic Festival.
1 July 2015
Features • Festivals
Re:Con: Sensored Festival
By James Varney
James Varney is deprived of his senses at Contact’s one-day festival.
9 June 2015
Features • Festivals
Pulse 2015: Looking, Watching, Signing
By David Ralf
Alister Lownie & Katherina Radeva on 10 days of performance in Ipswich.