From bedtime reading to centre stage: adapting children’s books for theatre
“Why can’t you fly now, mother?” Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.” Peter Pan, J.M Barrie Mrs. Darling is...
Interviews
Feature: Love is Love is Love: A Tale of Two Gay US Soldiers
On 27th July 1967, the passing of the Sexual Offences Act - which decriminalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales, was passed. F...
Feature: The Wardrobe Ensemble shines a light on ‘shagging’
Let’s talk about sex. Embarrassment, awkwardness, and fear still shroud the topic. The Wardrobe Ensemble, an award-winning theatre company, is inviting audience...
Feature: Tackling climate change at Liverpool’s Everyman Playhouse
In Liverpool a group of young people aged 16-22 are working on a play with a massive claim; The Environmentalists is the UK’s first carbon neutral play. How thi...
Feature: Exploring Banquo’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Devil Speaks True is an immersive, multi-sensory production that places each audience member into the “mind and body of Banquo” as we see the Macbeth narrat...
Feature: Doing the Rounds with junior doctors
“You see a lot of TV shows about doctors, and the glamorised idea of what people think they do. I actually wanted to know and show people what they really do.” ...