Guest blog: Wandering Hanger Theatre Festival (Ukraine)
The words “amateur theatre” inspire dread across the Anglo-Saxon world, but in the East, it just means you aren’t getting regular pay cheques from a professiona...
Richard Pettifer
Review: Macbeth, Little Angel Theatre
Many seem to miss the fact that Macbeth is pretty far-fetched. Sometimes our understanding of supernatural elements borders on the mundane: "Of course a dagge...
Review: The Act, Ovalhouse Theatre
The Sexual Offences Act (1967) was passed by the British government to give partial liberty to individuals wanting to have homosexual sex. It decriminalised h...
Feature: The theatre maker and the institution
If you look back over theatre history, there is an interesting contradiction which emerges: almost all of the ground-breaking innovators in theatre history ...
Richard Pettifer
Richard Pettifer is a Berlin-based theatre director and performance artist. He blogs about Berlin theatre at theaterstuck.blogspot.de, and his political work ‘People Spoke’ was performed at the Festival of the Wandering Hangar on September 28.