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Review: Get Happy, Greenwich + Docklands International Festival
It is a rainy afternoon in Woolwich Arsenal where acrobatics and physical theatre company Told By An Idiot are about to perform their show Get Happy in the mid...
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Blog: Still Me: creating creative space for dementia, spanning generations
Here we are again Happy as can be All good pals and jolly good company. So sings everybody as we gather around our flower-laden table in The Dukes...
Guest Blog: Kate Reynolds – Royal Exchange’s TaY Talks
For the past five years, a significant part of my role (as Special Projects Producer at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester) has centred around the deliver...
Guest Blog: Reuben Johnson – Deep Water, Community Theatre and Aliens
More and more these days, theatre and film quickly jumps on so called ‘relevant’ ideas and events immediately after they emerge. So, for example, if a group of ...
Guest Blog: James Brining – Theatre is not just for certain kinds of people
Photo credit: Farrow Creatives
Being out in the communities around the city is absolutely fundamental to what the Playhouse is about for me. It’s important bec...
Guest blog: The people’s theatre stars the people
A few weeks ago an Indian company called Jana Natya Manch came to visit Slung Low's home, the HUB. They are this fierce, rather brilliant agit-prop theatre comp...