Emilia: The West-End Not Ready for Clever Women?
Like many of us, Emma Bentley was not happy to see Emilia close early. Here, she ponders why: bad ticket sales? bad marketing? The white men at the 'top'? W...
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Prasanna Puwanarajah: “I Want to Pull People in Who Have a Question About Theatre”
Emma Bentley talks to Director, Prasanna Puwanarajah about his new graphic novel inspired show at the RSC, working with 'cool' people and battling to make thea...
Jonah York: “It’s about letting people go”
Emma Bentley talks to Jonah York in advance of his Brighton Fringe show, My Fern Flower about grief, plying people with instruments and awaiting his Grandma's ...
Snapper Theatre: “We Keep Ending Up at Venues That Really Care About Artists”
Emma Bentley talks to the three women that form Snapper Theatre. They discuss the hugely successful, Thomas, ensuring representation is always key and the...
Diary Monkeys and House Seat Wranglers: Are we ‘true’ artists?
As a Front of House worker, Emma Bentley isn't happy about Rupert Goold's tweet. Here, she discusses how staff might be able to do a job that pays their bills,...
Barbara Matijević: “You’d think that as a performer it’s almost automatic when they press play”
We talk with Barbara Matijević and Lewys Holt in the run up to their solo shows at The Place about working on your own and whether more 'radical' forms of danc...
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.