Ahead of her show ‘So Many Reasons’ at feminist festival Calm Down Dear, the writer and performer talks mother-daughter relationships, bypassing gatekeepers, and how to ‘jolt’ an audience.
Q&A and Interviews
6 December 2017
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Callisto: A Queer Epic
By Hannah Greenstreet
Hannah Greenstreet sits in on rehearsals for Forward Arena’s queer, time-hopping epic.
9 October 2017
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Tamara Harvey: “We are a theatre that makes theatre.”
By Rosemary Waugh
Tamara Harvey is artistic director at Theatr Clwyd, which combines a formidable artistic reputation with a location in rural Wales. She talks Chekhovian humour, working with dead authors, and why theatre and ice rinks mix.
3 October 2017
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Ellen McDougall: “It’s absolutely important that we don’t limit people”
By Alice Saville
The new artistic director of The Gate talks about running a theatre, looking to Europe, and why a narrow discourse around diversity can be dangerous.
31 July 2017
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Rachel Bagshaw: “I see pain as colours and hear it as sound”
By Rosemary Waugh
Rachel Bagshaw talks to Rosemary Waugh about creating The Shape of Pain, an Edinburgh Fringe show based on her experiences, and made in collaboration with Chris Thorpe.
23 March 2017
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Rachel O’Riordan: “I would hate to be directing another one woman show by Gary right now!”
By Rosemary Waugh
After the runaway success of Iphigenia in Splott, Rachel O’Riordan is directing Gary Owen’s new play Killology. She talks about her work as artistic director of the Sherman, and how theatre “opens doors to Wales”.
22 February 2017
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Sonja Linden: “I want to challenge our audience to rethink attitudes to older people”
By Rosemary Waugh
As Roundelay opens at the Southwark Playhouse, playwright Sonja Linden talks to Rosemary Waugh about why sex and relationships involving older people are rarely discussed.
23 January 2017
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Carly Wijs: “It’s very important that we have children that can think for themselves”
By Rosemary Waugh
As US/Them opens at the National Theatre, writer and director Carly Wijs talks to Rosemary Waugh about sex, censorship and making theatre for children.
2 December 2016
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Xavier de Sousa: “Migrants… were not part of the conversation.”
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa talks to Xavier de Sousa about migration, being a host and his new show POST at the Ovalhouse.
12 September 2016
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Documental: “theatre inspired by lived experience.”
By Rosemary Waugh
Lucy Bell talks to Rosemary Waugh about teenage dads, making documentaries and her latest play, Pulling Out, at the Camden People’s Theatre.
5 September 2016
Features • Q&A and Interviews
“I hope that a Clean Break play changes your heart a little bit.”
By Rosemary Waugh
Róisín McBrinn, head of the artistic programme at Clean Break, talks to Rosemary Waugh about government cuts, vulnerable women and their latest production at The Yard in Hackney.
16 May 2016
Features • London Theatre • Q&A and Interviews
Wishbone Theatre: “I like to think of it as a single, rather than an album.”
By Andrew Youngson
Karen Glossop and Paul Murray have created a 15-minute micro play that explores bipolar – on a bicycle. Here, they explore how you can make work about mental health that’s simple, without being simplistic.
19 April 2016
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Tassos Stevens: “Networked capitalism is still capitalism”
By David Ralf
The director of Coney’s new show Remote at Camden People’s Theatre on choice, consensus and control.
12 April 2016
Features • London Theatre • Norwich • Q&A and Interviews
Christopher Brett Bailey: “I don’t really live in the real world.”
By Andrew Youngson
Christopher Brett Bailey, the punk-haired mastermind behind ‘THIS IS HOW WE DIE’, reflects on his desire to overwhelm both audience and performer.
11 April 2016
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Matthew Parker: “I love it when companies take everything we offer and run with it”
By David Ralf
Matthew Parker on The Hope, Lovesong of the Electric Bear, and his upcoming season of three in-house shows.