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Image: 'Open Beta', created and performed by Chivaree Circus. Photo by Dom Martin Photography.
Category Theatre
‘What it means to be a homosexual’: Merle Miller’s essay gets stage adaptation
Image: Photo of James Corley, playwright, What it Means
In 1969, after yet another targeted raid at the Stonewall Inn by the New York City Police the gay village collectively fought back. Police quickly lost control of the revolt and the subsequent Stonewall Riots are widely recognised as a definging moment for the gay rights movement.
Review: A Strange Loop at the Barbican
Full of joyous, laugh-out-loud moments, A Strange Loop by Michael R Jackson is an absolute delight from start to finish. This meta production (of a black queer writer writing a play about a black queer writer, writing a play about a black queer writer), tows the line between hysterically camp, painfully introspective, and genuinely tender in a beautiful way.
Interview: Artist David Shearing on New Beginning with the guardians of tomorrow’s world
How far can art impact our behaviour towards the climate crisis? Can being reminded of the beauty of nature inspire action to help us hold onto it all? Using new technologies to create immersive experiences, multi-award winning artist David Shearing hopes to make us understand the natural world anew. Environmental sustainability is a priority in his work that aims to inspire both connection and change.
Director Nick Evans talks to Run Riot about exploring Welsh and Romany Cultures in One-Night-Only sensation For Tonight
Interview: Writer Livia Kojo Alour discusses internalised racism and reclaimed identity
Boulevard Theatre’s Fawn James on being among London’s new wave of theatres
Review: Night Of The Living Dead Live!
Night of the Living Dead Live! at the Pleasance is a unique theatrical experience. Audience members can enjoy the show from the safety of the stalls or bravely venture up on stage to sit in the ‘splatter zone’ amongst the performers. I enthusiastically chose the latter. Carrie didn’t exactly make being up on stage covered in blood look like a treat, but I’m never one to pass up an immersive experience.
FutureFest curator Pat Kane: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”
We’re increasingly hearing that our futures are uncertain - more so than ever before. Is this true? And if so, what can we do to collectively preserve our futures, and our free and intellectual thinking, for forthcoming generations?
FutureFest lead curator Pat Kane explores the idea of how we as humans can “collectively flourish” in the years to come in our interview ahead of the two-day event.
Interview: ‘Absolutely eye-opening stuff’ Joseph Seelig, co-Director on the London International Mime Festival 2018
Image: Peeping Tom: Mother (Moeder)
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