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After winning the Origins Award for Outstanding new work, Chivaree Circus return to London’s biggest arts festival with their show Becoming Shades: dark, immersive circus that re-imagines a classic myth for a grown-up audience. Run Riot caught up with Creative Director Laurane Marchive to talk about the evolution of circus, feminist performance and inhabiting strange and far-away worlds.
The Yard is a multi-award winning theatre and music venue built from salvaged material in a converted warehouse in Hackney Wick. Committed to telling 'contemporary stories in contemporary ways', we speak to Jay Miller, Artistic Director, about their upcoming season of radical performance and theatre's relationship with an unequal world.
My name is Racheal Ofori; a born and bred Londoner, headlining the Calm Down, Dear Festival of innovative, feminist theatre at Camden People’s Theatre with my new show SO MANY REASONS - which is a co-production between Fuel Theatre and Camden People's Theatre.
The Barbican’s 2018 season The Art of Change weaves multiple stories and experiences together across all of the Barbican’s art forms to explore changing attitudes, power dynamics, relationships and the treatment of individuals and groups considered to be outside of the mainstream. With new events announced today, the Barbican’s Director of Arts Louise Jeffreys, shares her highlights from the packed programme as well as hopes for the year ahead.
Image: Peeping Tom: Mother (Moeder)
