Feature: The Globe’s free giveaway to schools
Image credit: Ellie Kurttz “It’s designed to open up the theatre and Shakespeare to secondary school children.” This is the bold opening declaration fro...
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Feature: It’s not Blackouts for Dickie Beau
Image by Darrell Berry It all started with Judy Garland. The American starlet may have found it impossible to escape her cracked past until her untimely deat...
Feature: The Write to Play
The Write to Play programme is Graeae’s writer development programme, now in its second year and this time around focussed on the North West of England. I inter...
Feature: Amit Sharma – Graeae could close in six years
I arrive at Graeae’s Bradbury studios to talk to Amit Sharma about their Write to Play scheme. Graeae are pretty much unique – a theatre company run by Deaf and...
Features: Sam Holcoft, The Wardrobe and NT Connections
Across five centuries of British history, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the same solid, old wardrobe. It’s the safest place they know – but is it s...
Feature: Skitterbang Island – a cross between The Tempest and Wall-E…
“Really emotional and quite magical,” says Director Peter Glanville about Skitterbang Island, an opera for very young children, collaboratively put together b...