"A Drop of Midnight"
There is a palpable sense of world-class musicianship as the ensemble of six instrumentalists and two backing vocalists take to the stage to set the scene for Jason Timbuktu Diakité's eveni…
There is a palpable sense of world-class musicianship as the ensemble of six instrumentalists and two backing vocalists take to the stage to set the scene for Jason Timbuktu Diakité's eveni…
'If this were a text for the theatre, here is how it would begin' " these are the opening words of the French literary superstar Édouard Louis's third book Who Killed My Father, publishe…
Here's a few things to start with. Following my recent relocation from London to the Swedish equivalent of Oxford, this is my first encounter with the Lund Comedy Festival. The three-day eve…
Just over a hundred years since its founding (by impresario and theatre director Max Reinhardt), the Salzburg Festival honours the nearly forgotten 20th-century south German writer Marieluis…
Punchdrunk theatre, the eponymous progenitors of "immersive theatre," have been wowing their audiences worldwide since their early modest beginnings in Devon in the year 2000. Due to the nat…
Ivo van Hove's production of Age of Rage is sourced from six plays by Euripides and one by Aeschylus, chronicling the cycle of violence and revenge befallen on the house of Atreus " starting…
Imagine you suffered terrible injustices that in your day and age were just the norm, that your devotion to your calling meant you entered history as a passive victim and not as an agent in …
As its name suggests, The Song Project is more a collaborative experiment than a conventional piece of theatre. Co-initiated by the Royal Court's Associate Designer Chloe Lamford and the Dut…
I cannot imagine a better way to end one's Covid-19 lockdown than to head to a Lucy McCormick show at London's Battersea Arts Centre. Life: Live, straplined as a debut concert by the nu pop …
This article is part of the Dramaturgs' Network Invisible Diaries series. Woke up today to packed bags laid out on the living room carpet. My four-year-old is going on holiday. To her …
The last time I took my non-theatre-going husband to the Royal Court was in the autumn of 2013, when I was heavily pregnant with our first child, to see Kate Tempest's Brand New Ancients. Th…
Lucy McCormick specializes in historical re-enactments, she tells us, and she is here to play all the women of history, as a means of finding her hero. All this " within about one hour, and …