Mr Twonkey – aka comedian Paul Vickers – on the nature of nonsense and his love for Ivor Cutler.
Q&A and Interviews
18 May 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Michelle Terry: Drama Queen
By Miriam Gillinson
Michelle Terry on preparing to plays Rosalind in As You Like It and the Globe as a cosmic space.
13 May 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Make It Happen
By Miriam Gillinson
Fin Kennedy on Tamasha Theatre, his In Battalions report, and why playwrights – now more than ever – need to take control.
12 May 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Death in Mayfest
By Rosemary Waugh
Mayfest’s Artistic Directors Matthew Austin and Kate Yedigaroff on death, dancing and this year’s festival.
11 May 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Mother Figures
By Catherine Love
Greyscale’s Selma Dimitrijevic on casting men as mothers and her play Gods Are Fallen and All Safety Gone.
1 May 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Fig-Out
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville speaks to dance troupe Figs in Wigs about their work and their distinctive aesthetic.
21 April 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Alexander Zeldin: “The Director as God is Bullshit”
By Catherine Love
Alexander Zeldin on his show, Beyond Caring, and why “theatre has to be alive in every second.”
20 April 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Max Humphries: No Strings Attached
By Alice Saville
Max Humphries, whose creations populate Alice’s Adventures Underground, on the puppet as actor.
13 April 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Curiouser and Curiouser
By Miriam Gillinson
Curious Directive’s Jack Lowe on the need for theatre-makers to continue to think big.
7 April 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
You Have to Know Where You’ve Come From to Know Where You’re Going
By Maddy Costa
Samantha Ellis on her new play, Operation Magic Carpet.
25 March 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Responsibilities of Representation
By Natasha Tripney
Tess Berry-Hart and Odessa Celt debate what place theatre has in affecting social change.
24 March 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Purni Morell: Child’s Play
By Miriam Gillinson
Purni Morell, Artistic Director of the Unicorn Theatre, on making uncompromising children’s theatre.
21 March 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Soho Story
By David Ralf
David Ralf speaks to Jon Brittain – aka Maggie’s manager – about Kings and Queens of Soho, Bovril and Section 28.
12 March 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Gemma Whelan: Painting Pictures with Words
By Lee Anderson
Gemma Whelan on revisiting the dark and disturbing world of Philip Ridley in Radiant Vermin.
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9 March 2015
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Critical Thinking
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker and Blanche McIntyre discuss criticism, star ratings, and the reasons people write.