Feature: The HopeFull Rep season – “taking the bull by the horns”
Repertory theatre is back in fashion. With the Secret Theatre ensemble working through a number of shows at the Lyric and the Royal Court producing its own six-...
Dan Hutton
Edinburgh feature: Ellie Stamp – “there’s nothing wrong with you – it’s because you’re human”
“You’re a very good leader and you’re very good at listening to others”. Ellie Stamp has just met me, but she tells me this ‘fact’ based purely on the numbers o...
Feature: Latitude preview – the RSC
Were you to make a list of acts who may play music festivals, the Royal Shakespeare Company would not necessarily be a name which featured highly. You’d probabl...
Feature: Theatre at the Science Museum – Very loud bangs? Check.
(c) Benjamin Ealovega It’s not often you get handed a pair of ear defenders when walking into a rehearsal room; they are ordinarily ‘safe’ spaces with an ai...
Book review: The Complete Brecht Toolkit by Stephen Unwin
Although it’s a cliche, there’s a lot of truth to the old adage that, as Stephen Unwin says in his new book, “Brecht is often sloppily taught”. Many teachers of...
Feature: Spotlight on Jeremy Kingston
Many interviews begin with a bit of history and finish by looking forward to the future. When chatting to critic Jeremy Kingston, however, we decided to start b...
Dan Hutton
Dan recently graduated with a degree in English and Theatre Studies from the University of Warwick. He is a theatre-maker, freelance theatre critic and a company director of Barrel Organ Theatre.