Edifice: “The whole of our company is about the energy between people”
Emma Bentley has second thoughts about unwelcome contemporary dance spaces as she talks to Harriet Waghorn of Edifice. They discuss female power, audience conn...
Emma Bentley
Debbie Korley: “We’re Telling Stories of Our Ancestors”
Often, retellings of slavery are depicted in horrendous, gratuitous ways for the benefit of a white, guild-ridden audience. The RSC are about to stage The Whip...
Emma Bentley: I’m So Vain
In the fourth of multi-talented AYT writer, Emma Bentley’s series of very personal articles, she talks about believing, as many of us do, that she needs to lo...
Emma Bentley: I Think I’m Done With Scratch Nights
In the third of multi-talented AYT writer, Emma Bentley’s series of very personal articles, she talks about the pros and cons of doing scratch nights. But is s...
Three Sisters: “This Isn’t Just a Nigerian or an African History. It’s a British one as well”
Returning to her old work place, Emma Bentley watches the rehearsals of Three Sisters at the National Theatre and hears from Writer and Director, Inua Ellams ...
Emma Bentley: Comparing Yourself to Others is a Waste of Energy
In the second of multi-talented AYT writer Emma Bentley's series of very personal articles, she talks about feeling overwhelmingly jealous of her peers and whe...
Emma Bentley
Emma Bentley is an actor and writer from the Midlands. She is the co-writer and performer of two solo shows (To She Or Not To She and What Goes On In Front Of Closed Doors), has a funny face that is duly suited to comedy, and when she's not writing for AYT and various scratch nights works in a coffee shop.