Review: Do We Do The Right Thing?, New Diorama Theatre
Verbatim theatre and recorded delivery, made famous through Alecky Blythe's London Road (2011) and more recently Little Revolution is a way of telling real peop...
London Road
Review: Little Revolution, Almeida Theatre
It is three summers ago that London burned and that verbatim playwright Alecky Blythe (London Road) took to the streets of Hackney, recording her conversations ...
Mind over Matter: Can theatre reveal the human experience behind the headlines?
In the words of Faha, a radio DJ from Zabadani, in Zoe Lafferty’s verbatim play The Fear of Breathing, the people in Syria seek to “climb desperately... to come...
Round Up: 2011
The results of our Twitter poll are in as Jessica Wilson rounds up your theatrical highs and lows of 2011.
CD Review: London Road Cast Recording
A new musical about the serial killer Steve Wright who murdered five prostitutes in Ipswich might not sound like a hit for The National Theatre, but London Road...
In Turn: Safety Curtain
Last week, I spoke to Sarah ‘Roxie Hart’ Soetaert about her West End career. In a couple of days, I’ll be meeting Dan Bowling, one of the creative team behind...