A lovesong in the dark: Alice Saville writes on the mystical magic of Norway’s biannual performance festival.
Features
24 October 2019
Features
The Ickiness of Marketing Your Art
By Rachel Porter
Figs in Wigs’ Rachel Porter talks about the underacknowledged awkwardness of selling theatre – especially when it’s on the weirder end of the spectrum.
22 October 2019
Features
Setting the Story Straight on Trigger Warnings
By Kaya Stanley-Money
Ahead of CPT’s Handle With Care Festival, Kaya Stanley-Money writes on how venues are approaching the heated conversation around trigger warnings.
17 October 2019
Features • Festivals
Fierce Festival 2019
By Ben Kulvichit
Dive into the unknown: Ben Kulvichit live blogs his journey through 2019’s Fierce Festival.
16 October 2019
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Metatheatricality as a Feminist Act
By Alice Saville
Sorry not sorry: Alice Saville writes on a spate of female playwrights who are breaking form and pulling back the curtain on gendered power structures.
9 October 2019
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Old Vic’s Gender Neutral Toilets: A Dialogue
By Jess Rahman-Gonzalez and Oli Isaac
“I am considered a debate topic, and I have learned not to flinch”: Jess Rahman-González and Oli Isaac discuss the emotional impact of the backlash against the Old Vic’s trans inclusive toilets.
4 October 2019
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Exeunt recommends: October 2019
By Alice Saville
A guide to October’s chaotic flurry of performance, dance, and theatre.
1 October 2019
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Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas: “Can’t we just bottle this up and keep it?”
By Kate Wyver
As they bring their trilogy to BAC, the theatremaking duo talk international politics, conflict, and breaking up.
30 September 2019
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Belgrade International Theatre Festival: Let’s Start Over
By Natasha Tripney
Natasha Tripney finds destruction, renewal, and numbing violence at Belgrade’s festival of avant garde theatre from across Europe.
25 September 2019
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New perspectives on the body at ImPulsTanz, Vienna’s International Dance Festival
By Lisa Moravec
Researcher and critic Lisa Moravec explores ideas of bodily dressage in Peter Stamer’s and Frank Willens’s In the Penal Colony and Willen’s group dance Radiant Optimism.
18 September 2019
Features • Essays
Ticket prices keep rising; why aren’t we rioting?
By Alice Saville
Alice Saville writes on 1809’s Old Price Riots, and what they can teach commercial theatre producers over two centuries later.
16 September 2019
Features • Essays
Relaxed venues, liberated audiences
By Maddy Costa
“To react and respond is just human”: Maddy Costa writes on how audiences are silenced, and the complex history of ideas of ‘civilised’ behaviour.
12 September 2019
Features • Q&A and Interviews
FullRogue Theatre: “The cult of confidence has to go”
By Ben Kulvichit
In this interview with Ben Kulvichit, the writer-director duo discuss their show Wild Swimming, symbiosis, and why emerging artists need to make mistakes.
9 September 2019
Features • Essays
The Doctor, and theatre’s troubled relationship with identity politics
By Ravi Ghosh
Ravi Ghosh writes on Rob Icke’s dive into minority identity, and why audiences need to be pushed towards self-examination, not self-congratulation.
2 September 2019
Features • Essays
If not now, when?: Falsettogate, and what it teaches us about meaningful minority inclusion
By Adam Lenson
Theatre director Adam Lenson writes on the Falsettos casting controversy, and why the Jewish community needs to be involved in telling its own stories.