Articles, Featured, Interviews, On Theatre, Spotlight On, Theatre
Spotlight On: Philip Ridley
As The Pitchfork Disney opens at the Arcola Theatre, Philip Ridley shares his thoughts on the pressure of revivals and his commitment to evocative storytelling.
Acting, Articles, Featured, Interviews, On Theatre, Theatre
Frankland & Sons: like father, like son
Do the benefits of working with your dad go above and beyond getting the drinks bought for you afterwards? Jessica Wilson spoke to father and son duo John and Tom Frankland to find out.
Acting, Articles, Featured, Interviews, On Theatre, Theatre
Beyond the headlines: social work on the stage
Chris Lee's Shallow Slumber at Soho Theatre deals with the lives of those receiving and giving social care. Chelsey Burdon finds out more.
Articles, Featured, Interviews, On Theatre, Spotlight On, Theatre
Spotlight On: Jacqueline Wilson and Mary Morris
Beloved children's author Jacqueline Wilson shares her experience of having her work adapted for the stage with stage and screen writer Mary Morris.
Acting, Articles, Featured, Interviews, On Theatre, Theatre
Marmite and mischief: Belt Up’s The Boy James
With Belt Up Theatre's The Boy James opening in the new year, Douglas Williams finds out why you'll love or hate the show from Producer Jethro Compton.
Regional, Reviews, Theatre
Review: Belleville Rendez-vous
Posted on 29 January 2012
To call FellSwoop Theatre’s fifties cabaret bar aesthetic “realistic” would be a criminal understatement. By framing the story of Madame Souza’s fight to rescue her grandson from the crooks who have kidnapped him during the Tour de France as a kind of eclectic floor show, this ten-piece ensemble ensure that their audience are unable to [...] Continue Reading
Off West End, Reviews, Theatre
Review: Shallow Slumber
Posted on 29 January 2012
Taking cues from recent tragedies in social care, Chris Lee – who is a full time social worker – has turned a national topic on its head with Shallow Slumber. A reversed narrative plays with the wide scope of the subject of social care, and raises questions of expectation and fatalism – questions which shape [...] Continue Reading
Reviews, Theatre
Review: Josie Long: The Future is Another Place
Posted on 28 January 2012
Josie Long’s comedy has something of a DIY mentality. Introducing herself from the side of the stage in full view of the audience, then chastising people in the crowd for looking at her and spoiling the illusion, she takes to the intimate stage of the Nook café, wending her way through the crowd, thanking them [...] Continue Reading
Off West End, Reviews, Theatre
Review: The Bee
Posted on 28 January 2012
In Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan’s The Bee, a collaboration between Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and Soho Theatre in association with NODA MAP, two men push the limits in a dangerous game of ‘who will crack first?’. Ido, played by the immensely dexterous Kathryn Hunter, returns home after work to find his wife and child have [...] Continue Reading
Off West End, Reviews
Review: Miss Julie
Posted on 28 January 2012
Expectations are dangerous things. Walking into the New Diorama again to see another part of The Faction’s rep season, I was greeted by revellers humming the conga. The party was in full swing, we were invited to take our seats and wait our turn. I should have instead been looking at the pious Kristin (Kate [...] Continue Reading
Regional, Theatre
Review: Mayday Mayday
Posted on 28 January 2012
In his new, skilfully told solo show at Bristol Old Vic, Tristan Sturrock performs the story of his own brush with death; a tumble from a wall in 2004 that left him with a broken neck. Sturrock and director Katy Carmichael do well to steer clear from staging the tale as a saccharine tearjerker, and [...] Continue Reading
Blogs, Want to Write?
Want to write? Interview with singer-songwriter Emma O’Reilly
Posted on 28 January 2012
23-year-old Irish singer-songwriter Emma O’Reilly is well on her way to establishing a thriving career in the music business. She read English Literature and Music at Trinity College Dublin. Since 2006, the Galway native has gigged in countless venues in the Irish capital. Last year, her passion for singing led her to set up and [...] Continue Reading
Opportunities, Resources
Opportunity: Theatre in the Rough Festival 2012
Posted on 28 January 2012
Applications are now open for young writers to take part in the Theatre in the Rough Festival 2012. This year’s festival commemorates Liverpool’s links with the Titanic. We want to reclaim the voices from the savage sea, and tell an old story in a fresh way. We are producing 10 short monologues for live performance, [...] Continue Reading