Feature: Behind de Marivaux’s La Dispute and Les Acteurs
In their third and final year at the University of York, the students on its Writing, Directing and Performance course put on a series of shows that they’re ass...
Rehearsals
Guest blog: Steve Green on the joy of the rehearsal rooms
Photo: Steve Green directing rehearsals for Fourth Monkey's The Elephant Man. Note to self: This is what it’s all about, being in the rehearsal room. This is...
Blog: Young directors – fear and magic in the rehearsal room
I’ve run rehearsals in the past for very small projects; I’ve been an assistant director sitting in on rehearsals and taking notes, giving feedback and providin...
Blog: An actor writes – learning lines
Right. I’ve done my tax return, tidied my room, emptied the dishwasher, done an excessively long warm-up with added zizz-ing, refreshed my email inbox preci...
Feature: Cuckoo at the Unicorn Theatre
Opening this week at the Unicorn Theatre is a new play by Hollyoaks writer Suhayla El-Bushra, whose play Pigeons recently ran at the Royal Court Theatre. Cuckoo...
Blog: En route to Edinburgh – Preview week
This week is preview week. Edinburgh is less than a week away and the final preparations are in full swing, but everyone is mildly distracted by the inevitable ...