Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Grace Gallagher and Rachael Smart, directors of STUFFED. Food poverty isn’t funny. Clowns generally are. Somewhere between the two sits STUFFED, Ugly Bucket’s riotous, uncompromising response to the UK’s growing food poverty crisis.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Rohan Rakhit and Jammz. A collision of past, present and future, London, From The Margins at Rich Mix is conducted and connected by Hackney-born multiplatform storyteller Jammz and DJ, broadcaster and DAYTIMERS cultural programmer Rohan Rakhit.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sheep! has had a few people who’d more likely be on the perpetrator-side of the spectrum come up to me with this light in their eyes because they finally understood why it’s so hurtful when your boundaries are crossed – and the survivors feel really seen, which is a valuable connection for me.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFive weeks to the moon! In 1964 Zambia won its independence, and a schoolteacher announced that the new nation would beat the superpowers to the moon. It sounds invented, which is presumably why the Royal Court's release calls it "true(ish)". Ryan Calais Cameron's The Afronauts sets out to put the story back on the record, and it has five weeks of rehearsal in which to do so.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Rachel De Fontes and Peter Jeffries, writers and directors of Lie Club: two compulsive liars meet at a Liar's Anonymous meeting.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Bea Webster-Mockett, Assistant Director of DO NOT PASS GO, with the support of a Federation of Scottish Theatre Bursary. This autumn, the award-winning theatre company Jordan & Skinner premiere…
Reading Time: 3 minutesBlending satire, physical theatre and cabaret, The Banality of Evil draws on archival research and testimony to reveal forgotten histories of women caught between exile, imprisonment and survival. At its centre is a pivotal moment in the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for a quick chat with Guillaume Pigé, Theatre Re’s Artistic Director. Internationally acclaimed Theatre Re marks the 10th anniversary of its award-winning production The Nature of Forgetting with an extensive UK and international tour.…
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwenty years of Wicked: celebrating two decades of magic at the Apollo Victoria Twenty years after Wicked first opened its doors at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, the West End phenomenon has become firmly woven into the fabric of London…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, adapted by David Harrower from the novel by Muriel Spark, is set at Marcia Blaine School for Girls, where teacher Miss Jean Brodie is, famously, in her prime. Each year, Brodie…