13 thoughts On Freedom: Belarus Free Theatre marks ten years by Staging a Revolution
Belarus Free Theatre (BFT), the underground theatre group routinely censored and persecuted in its state-controlled
From Pig Farm to Urinetown: Piss and sh*t and sustainability
Dan Fredenburgh, Stephen Tompkinson and Erik Odom in Pig Farm at the St James
Photos and podcast: Barrie Keeffe discusses “unacceptable”, still timely Barbarians
Regular readers of this blog will know that, a few weeks ago, I was blown away by Tooting Arts Club's revival of Barbarians, Barrie Keeffe's 1977 modern classic about disaffected London youth.
The birth of an Icon: I was there
Obviously I go to the theatre a lot: but last night truly was
Dark Tourism and the art of the theatrical put-down: 17 top insults
Richard, one of the central characters in Daniel Dingsdale's debut play Dark Tourism (like me) has a thing for quotations. The irony is that he's a peddler of lowest common denominator culture, a "celebrity" PR with a hotline to the tabloids, who once dreamed of high-brow literary success.
Why are strong women – and witches – so scary?
Hannah Hutch in Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern. © Richard Davenport Tonight
This is England: Barbarians tap into anti-austerity rage
Jake Davies, Thomas Coombes and Josh Williams in Tooting Arts Club's production of Barbarians
My Conference diary: A striking similarity to the Edinburgh Fringe
David Cameron rhetorically invading Labour Party territory in his 2015 Conservative Party conference speech
Mark Rylance: ‘What’s wrong with being a theatre actor?’
Mark Rylance in Farinelli and the King On this Sunday’s Andrew Marr Show
INTERVIEW (pt2): Barney Norris on Peter Gill, Van Gogh writing and theatres as ’empathy engines’
Playwright Barney Norris has followed his award-winning debut Visitors with Eventide, which is now running at London's