Review: As a Tiger in the Jungle at Jackson's Lane
"It feels like an act of self-harm": Kate Wyver on Sverre Waage's three-man show featuring performers sold into the circus as children. The post Review: As a Tiger in the Jungle at Jackson…
"It feels like an act of self-harm": Kate Wyver on Sverre Waage's three-man show featuring performers sold into the circus as children. The post Review: As a Tiger in the Jungle at Jackson…
Curve, LeicesterThis slow-burning drama is adapted from Amana Fontanella-Khan's book about Indian women's rights campaigner Sampat Pal and her trailblazing Gulabi GangMasculinity is a weapon…
Grief, robbery and Christmas pudding: Kate Wyver reviews James Rowland's show on tour in Bristol. The post Review: Team Viking at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol appeared first on Exeunt Magaz…
"It didn't really need to be a play", and other thoughts: Kate Wyver's list review of fanSHEN's performance. The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Lists for the End of the World at Summerhall ap…
Between irony and evil: Javaad Alipoor's performance delves into the many-tentacled world of online communities. The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Believers Are But Brothers appeared fir…
A ghost story: Kate Wyver reviews Barrel Organ's new show about emotional and financial debt. The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Anyone’s Guess How We Got Here at Zoo appeared first on …
At a festival that can feel like a celebration of youth, three shows are exploring old age. Kate Wyver talks to their creators about loneliness, dementia, and unexpected laughter. The post A…
The gentle tracing of our pens on paper: Kate Wyver draws Hannah Sullivan in her "infinitely delicate" one-on-one participatory show in Bristol. The post Review: Draw To Look at the Royal We…
Red shoes and red chairs: Kate Wyver responds to Matthew Bourne's obsessive and passionate ballet. The post Review: The Red Shoes at Bristol Hippodrome appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
Inua Ellams updates the script of An Evening with an Immigrant as global change occurs. "I have to keep the text new so it always feels current," Ellams says. Given the state of global immig…
Rosana Cade's performance piece, Walking: Holding, is designed for one audience member to make their way through a city as they hold hands with strangers. It is an explosion. It is a whisper…
'I know that fairytales are often considered lightweight and superficial, but when you dig deep they provide us with incredibly important maps to help us understand what it is to be human.' …
If one set of windows in an urban area is broken and ignored, it sets a precedent for an area and leads to an escalation of crime. This criminological theory forms the springboard for Caitli…
Image by Helen Albert Deafinitely Theatre are the only deaf-led theatre company in Britain that provide performances and activities for both children and adults. I spoke to Artistic Director…
A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts combines Shakespeare, lemons and a game of strip-wrestling. Every performance is different because the protagonist of the show is picked from a hat b…
Once Upon A Time looks old age in the face. Ageing is a subject that director Agnieszka Blonska says we do not talk about or see on stage enough. The play tells the stories of three perfo…
When Erica Whyman started as Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2013, she was excited by the brief set her by Director Gregory Doran. He wanted her to commission ne…
The twenty-first century musical In the Heights, set in Washington Heights in Manhattan, is coming to London. In 2008, In the Heights was nominated for 13 Tony awards and won four including …
Puppetry is all about movement. A group of puppeteers creating a show about an incurable muscle-wasting condition that takes away all mobility sounds like a paradox, but the deterioration of…
Drew McOnie has started a new theatre-dance company, and its first show, Drunk, is currently playing at the Bridewell Theatre. Kate Wyver caught up with him… Why have you cho…