8th Women Playwrights Conference in Mumbai
The conference beautifully illustrated theatre’s capacity to celebrate both liberty and tolerance (two of the themes for this year’s festival) and transcend cultural and religious divisions.
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Reviews
Measure for Measure
This is a production fascinated by the psychological dissection of individual souls, but without much concern for the real-world consequences of its protagonists’ moral and marital manoeuvres.
11 and 12
One of the most touching moments in the play comes when the two leaders of 11 and 12 meet and talk through the night about their conflicting beliefs.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has turned out to be a box-office smash hit in the West End, but what does this reverse-race production bring to Tennessee Williams’ modern classic?
Play on Words
Play on Words is an old fashioned confection of moments both tragic and comic, juggling language and dramatic structure in an elegant production.
Articles
Journey to the Heart of the Sun
Chronicle of a journey to the Cartoucherie de Vincennes to see Théâtre du Soleil’s latest production, Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir.
A Practical Guide to Theatre and the Web: Twitter
Do you tweet? What can Twitter do for your work in the creative industries? Sinead MacManus covers the main points of the world’s most used microblogging service.
A Practical Guide to Theatre and the Web: Blogging
Writing a blog can be a powerful learning tool, it can promote critical and analytical thinking, both with regard to your artistic process and to issues at stake in the wider world.
Interviews
Interview with Polarbear: spoken word artist
Me on stage telling you a story right now. That's why it's exciting. Sink or swim. Hopefully I can swim.
Mischa Twitchin on the history of SHUNT and their new show Money
The conversations around Money started before Easter last year, so before Northern Rock, but after the Enron scandal.
Home
Matt Boothman
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Producer Simon Cummin, artist Owen Michael Johnson, playwright Lara Stavrinou, director Lottie Englishby and Sans Walk Project Artistic Director Ellie Pitkin talk to Matt Boothman about Home, a pop-up installation…
Journey to the Heart of the Sun
Andrew Eglinton
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18:30 – We’re standing outside the , sucking in the cold night air. We’ve spent three hours pouring over provocative imagery from of the 20th century. Spirits are high and…
Measure for Measure
Stephe Harrop
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‘There is so great a fever on goodness that the dissolution of it must cure it’. Well quite. Act V of Michael Attenborough’s Measure for Measure at the Almeida presents…
11 and 12
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In 11 and 12 legendary theatre director, Peter Brook, turns his attention to a religious dispute between two rival African groups, one that ultimately leads to war. The piece, overall,…
Interview with Polarbear: spoken word artist
Diana Damian
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Polarbear is a UK based spoken word artist with a sharp voice and a passion for storytelling. He has performerd internationally, from the London’s Southbank Centre to Kuala…
A Practical Guide to Theatre and the Web: Twitter
Sinead Mac Manus
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In this next instalment of hands-on articles, creative business consultant, Sinead Mac Manus, looks at the microblogging tool Twitter and its use in the theatre world.
Welcome to the Twitter
…Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Mika Eglinton
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Following its sell-out run on Broadway, Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning modern classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is on at the Novello Theatre. Directed by award-winning Debbie Allen…
Play on Words
Diana Damian
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First performed in 2006 at the Buxton Fringe, revived in Edinburgh in 2007 and performed in January 2010 at the Tristan Bates Theatre in London, Play on Words is an…
Stick Man
Stephe Harrop
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For those of you who haven’t got round to reading it yet, Stick Man (by Julia Donaldson, with pictures by Axel Scheffler) is a much-loved rhyming storybook recounting the many…
Jiggery Pokery: An Homage to Charles Hawtrey
Stephe Harrop
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As Kenneth Tynan famously remarked of Noël Coward: ‘Forty years ago he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever…
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