Mawa Theatre Company: “We want to do an all-black, all-female Romeo & Juliet”
In the latest of our video interviews, we speak to Jade Samuels, the Executive Producer of Mawa, the first all-black, all-female Shakespeare Theatre Company e...
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Ellice Stevens: “We Didn’t Try & Make a Show for the #MeToo Movement”
Episode eight of AYT in Isolation and we're speaking to the co-founder of award-winning, Breach Theatre, Ellice Stevens. The company collaborate with actors to...
Review: Splendour, Donmar Warehouse
As a play and as a performance there are elements of Splendour that I have not seen bettered this year. At the curtain call, I found myself with a reflex-like c...
Blog: An actor writes – It is the cry of women: all-female(ish) Shakespeare
Shaking up the genders has always been trendy in Shakespeare. Far cleverer and better-informed people than me have written fat books about it, and that’s be...
Feature: Smooth faced gentlemen – all-female Shakespeare
Members of all-female Shakespeare company Smooth Faced Gentlemen tell Olivia Luder about dipping into male characters, crying onstage and looking beyond a chara...