Barbican’s Fertility Festival: “We are arts professionals as well as IVF patients”
Josephine Balfour Oatts talks to the co-creator of Fertility Festival, Jessica Hepburn about 'Project Baby', bringing the conversation into the 21st Century an...
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Review: Redefining Juliet, The Pit at the Barbican
Juliet Capulet of Shakespeare’s world-renowned Romeo & Juliet might be one of, if not the most famous female character ever written for the stage. Countless...
Review: Macbeth, Barbican Theatre
The RSC’s production of Macbeth, directed by Polly Findlay, takes up its London residency at the Barbican, bringing the famed brutalism of the theatre right ont...
Niamh Cusack: “The Macbeths are flesh and blood, they’re not monsters”
Josephine Balfour Oatts chats to Niamh Cusack in the run up to her role as Lady Macbeth at the Barbican. Expect baby comparisons and much love for Shakespeare. ...
Review: Lady Eats Apple, Barbican Theatre
Presented under the Barbican’s new season, The Art of Change, in tandem with LiFT Festival and Back to Back Theatre, Lady Eats Apple is a piece exploring the fr...
Review: Unexploded Ordnances (UXO), Barbican
A heptagon of light-up tables forms the thrust stage of The Pit Theatre at the Barbican. Interrupting the formality of the space are two red rocking chairs, and...