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.
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Reviews
Henry IV, part 1
Even without its climactic sequel this is a roguishly appealing, stand-alone historical romp.
Electric Hotel
Electric Hotel is a piece of total theatre, a beautiful, meditative and eerie exploration of isolation and violence seen through the eyes of voyeurs.
Henry VIII
It’s not every day that you get to hear a Shakespeare play (or at least a play partly by Shakespeare) for the first time.
Peter Pan
Grafting a social conscience onto Barrie’s blithely heartless hero isn’t as easy as re-attaching lost shadows.
Articles
A Practical Guide to Theatre and the Web: Facebook
Sinead Mac Manus looks at the world’s largest social networking site to gauge its potential for theatre artists and companies.
Green and Pleasant Neverland
There’s even the odd pirate, redskin and fairy to be sighted among the motley and comprehensively lost crew.
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.
Interviews
Interview with Tim Webb, Artistic Director of Oily Cart
I love those moments, when our participants are suddenly seen in a new light, free of the 'behaviours' and the 'syndromes' with which they are often labelled.
On Austen’s Women: An interview with Rebecca Vaughan
We have become so involved in the romances within these novels that we often overlook the voices of the women themselves.
Henry IV, part 1
Stephe Harrop
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Looks like it might be a good summer for plays with Henry in the title at Shakespeare’s Globe. Hard on the heels of a powerful Henry VIII comes the first…
Electric Hotel
Diana Damian
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The Electric Hotel stands before us in semi-darkness, a plant on its rooftop and a ‘No Vacancies’ sign lit up out front. Behind it stands Gas Holder No 8, and…
Interview with Tim Webb, Artistic Director of Oily Cart
Diana Damian
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In this interview Diana Damian talks to Tim Webb, Artistic Director of Oily Cart, about his company and its work for children with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
You…
Henry VIII
Stephe Harrop
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It’s not every day that you get to hear a Shakespeare play (or at least a play partly by Shakespeare) for the first time. So a new production of the…
Peter Pan
Stephe Harrop
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Regular readers may have noticed my tendency to write about Peter Pan at any available opportunity (including here and here). So I hope you won’t take it as deliberate waywardness…
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Real time comments have…Under construction: A summer day in South Tel Aviv
Theatre in Pictures
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In this series of photos, London based Israeli photographer, Ben Hopper, worked with a range of performance artists on a construction site in South Tel Aviv. The building once…
Elevator
Diana Damian
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The New Diorama Theatre has bravely opened its doors to a season of new Romanian writing with Elevator as the lead show. Gabriel Pintilei’s play was originally written and performed…
A Practical Guide to Theatre and the Web: Facebook
Sinead Mac Manus
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In this next instalment in her series of hands-on articles, creative business consultant, Sinead Mac Manus, looks at the world’s largest social networking site, Facebook, to gauge its potential for…
On Austen’s Women: An interview with Rebecca Vaughan
Diana Damian
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Austen’s Women is Rebecca Vaughan’s debut solo production, first performed in Edinburgh in 2009. The performance uses text taken solely from the works of Jane Austen. It is a succession…
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