…so we can rest, recuperate, and make plans on how to come back stronger.
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14 August 2020
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How to go to the Edinburgh Fringe Without Leaving Your House
By Francesca Peschier and Alice Saville
The fringe is (mostly) cancelled – so here are some highly creative tips on how to recreate the magic, without leaving your home.
10 August 2020
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The blurred boundaries of lockdown working
By Poppy Burton-Morgan
Poppy Burton-Morgan writes on why working from home makes it extra-important to learn how to close the door.
8 August 2020
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WTF Next
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa reflects on the conversations started by WTF Next, an online meeting place to discuss the future of theatre.
7 August 2020
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NT at Home: An Incomplete Diary
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes on surviving through lockdown, and learning to love livestreamed theatre.
4 August 2020
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10 Years of Sh!t
By Shit Theatre
Sh!t Theatre celebrate their fringe anniversary (and unexpected year off) with this whistletop tour of ten years of not getting paid in the rain.
3 August 2020
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Who would have thought it would come to this?
By Natasha Tripney
The 2020 Edinburgh fringe is (mostly) cancelled this year. So Natasha Tripney’s cut-up style poem imagines what the festival will be like, when it returns.
25 July 2020
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Drama School’s Class of 2020
By Joseph Winer
“It feels like this complex sense of grief”: Joseph Winer talks to a generation of theatre graduates as they reckon with the loss and opportunities the pandemic has brought.
24 July 2020
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An Apology, A Commitment
By Alice Saville
As Equity drafts a new code of conduct for critics, Alice Saville writes about racism and reviewing.
21 July 2020
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What does leadership in the arts cost?
By Campbell Edinborough
As the pay rates of senior arts leaders spark debate, Campbell Edinborough explores the relationship between labour and value.
16 July 2020
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Rehearsal Diary: The Spirit
By Jack McNamara
Jack McNamara reflects on ‘The Spirit’, a collaboration with Thibault Delferiere that took place on the brink of lockdown.
11 July 2020
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Football Chants for Theatre
By Tracey Sinclair
“Where are you hiding, Ollie Dowden?” – Tracey Sinclair attempts to unite the warring spheres of football and theatre with some chants to yell from the stalls.
6 July 2020
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Stories from Theatre Royal Plymouth
By Laura Horton
When news of redundancies hit, Laura Horton collected testimonies of what Theatre Royal Plymouth meant to artists and audiences. Here are 10 of them.
6 July 2020
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Dear Oliver
By Atri Banerjee
Director Atri Banerjee imagines some letters to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, during the long wait for government support.
29 June 2020
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Some Reasons to Save the UK’s Theatres and Production Companies
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville collates some arguments for urgently funding theatres now, so that they’ll still be there for us in whatever world awaits us in 2021.