Sunday, February 26, 2012
I've been asked to write a play. What a dreadful idea'Critics," said the Irish writer Brendan Behan, "are like eunuchs in a harem. They know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2012
There are one-person shows galore in Manchester, a new Streetcar on the loose in Liverpool, and two chances to see playwright Dennis Kelly at different ends of the countryNorthThe Fuel seaso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AM[SHARE]Polished performances rule the stage and the circus ring, but human fraility is just as gripping " and more moving " to watchTake a look at this video from Cirque du Soleil's Alegria.It's b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Watford PalacePlaywright Charlotte Keatley has always been ahead of the game. In 1985 she wrote My Mother Said I Never Should, one of the first plays about mothers and daughters, a big, bold…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PM[SHARE]Research shows that theatres are prejudiced against female playwrights. What can be done about it?What would the playwriting landscape look like if all submissions to theatres were done anon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AM[SHARE]Research shows that theatres are prejudiced against female playwrights. What can be done about it? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Theatre 503, LondonArtist-led is a buzz word in theatre at the moment, but writer-led is still more unusual, and when all those writers are women you know something is afoot. New theatre com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2012
Southbank Centre, LondonDennis the Menace is almost an OAP. He first appeared in the Beano in 1951, but for generations of children he " and his partners in crime, Minnie the Minx and Roger …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:22PM[SHARE]The Donmar finds a new answer to the perennial mobile problem, and are theatres getting more middle of the road?Switching audiences on to switch it offWe all know how annoying it is when som…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2012
Cottesloe, LondonCameron (James Cooney) is a teenager glued to his MP3 player and not best pleased to find himself spending a week without a phone or internet connection with his research sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2012
Palace, LondonUnless the threatened hosepipe ban materialises, it's probably safe to say that Jonathan Church's stage revival, based on the 1952 Gene Kelly movie set during the early days of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:40PM[SHARE]Hot tickets include An Appointment with the Wicker Man in Aberdeen and hit puppet show The Table in Bristol, while Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker hits GlasgowNorthNewcastle is buzzing. Petty of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2012
With British regional theatre facing tough questions, WYP's new artistic director " announced today " will have his work cut outWhat are the biggest jobs in British theatre? Obviously headin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The people of Diego Garcia, a British colony in the Indian Ocean, were thrown off their island to make way for a US military base. Lyn Gardner on how their story was made into a playHow wou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM[SHARE]The people of Diego Garcia, a British colony in the Indian Ocean, were thrown off their island to make way for a US military base. Lyn Gardner on how their story was made into a play Contin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM[SHARE]Royal Exchange Studio, ManchesterGoing back is not always a good idea " you never know what nasty surprises you might find lurking behind the sofa. The destructive past invades the damaged p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PM[SHARE]Josie Rourke makes it look easy with a blissfully funny revival of The Recruiting Officer. But that doesn't mean the pressure is offWhen Josie Rourke woke up this morning I would hazard a gu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:39AM[SHARE]BAC, LondonPuppetry and live music, drawing and storytelling come together in Paper Cinema's ingenious retelling of Homer's story, which offers 70 minutes that are a cross between a silent m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Donmar, LondonMichael Grandage may have gone out in a blaze, such was his success in turning the Donmar into a glossy international theatre brand and the venue that Stephen Sondheim has call…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30PM[SHARE]Rose, KingstonAdam is gone, presumed dead. He was last seen teetering on the grill of a deep, disused shaft, a group of bullying teenagers throwing stones at him. They may all be guilty…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2012
Lyn Gardner rounds up the week's stage business, from a spine-tingling Romeo and Juliet to National Theatre Wales's quest for audience memoriesWe do like Mondays"Extraordinary how potent che…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2012
Old Vic Tunnels, LondonOut of the darkness comes a voice: high-pitched, eerie, almost like a keen. That's the starting point for Kindle Theatre's 60-minute exploration of rage and revenge, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2012
Barbican, LondonPunch and Judy are 350 years old this year " their first recorded performance in England dates from 1662 " and Improbable celebrate in style with Julian Crouch's down-at-heel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PM[SHARE]Hot tickets this week include Zach Braff's All New People in Glasgow and Simon Callow reading Dickens in TauntonScotland and Northern IrelandIn Belfast, Mick Gordon revives Brian Friel's ver…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2012
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonThere is a brilliant moment at the end of Spymonkey's spoof, an evening which proves that in every tragedy there is a comedy trying to get out. Jocasta is dead…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PM[SHARE]There is some fantastic acting to be seen on British stages, but why is it the barnstorming performances that are most admired?It's been an excellent few weeks for acting: David Haig triumph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Jenny Sealey is staging the opening ceremony for the Paralympics " and it won't be much like Beijing's.When Jenny Sealey was 16, her school careers adviser said she should give up any though…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PM[SHARE]Nuffield, SouthamptonIf we're truthful, Shakespeare's young lovers are often a wee bit dull, and death doesn't come nearly quickly enough. Not so with Robert Icke's revival for Headlong, tho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Salisbury PlayhouseTroilism turns out to be as tame as a bishop's tea party in Salisbury, where Caroline Leslie's revival of Noel Coward's 1933 comedy is handsome, frothy and frightfully gay…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM[SHARE]It's a great idea for fringe theatres to share their spaces " but they need to share the financial numbers tooWhen the Park Theatre " a new 200-seat main house and smaller studio space " ope…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:57AM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2012
Lyn Gardner rounds up the weekend's stage business, from a jelly-smeared Changeling to austerity arts funding and snowy tweetsJelly bellyIt is probably too much to hope that when Lindsay Pos…
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