I have written extensively about the need to separate my social life from that of my working life. The two inevitably combine, and I spend just as much time pondering theatre during the day, as I do pondering it in an auditorium in the evening. More pondering online through Twitter, and then I fall asleep, no doubt to some theatrical dream. This weekend however, a bank holiday weekend no less, I managed to spend three whole ...
April 14, 2013
Review: Table, National Theatre: The Shed
Opening the National Theatre’s newest venue, The Shed, is Table. A piece of theatre so rooted in materialistic value and generational ownership that it feels almost an ironic choice for associate director and programmer Ben Power to open this temporary space with. The Shed, with its towering red turrets on the Southbank will be fleeting in the history of the National Theatre. Lasting a year, The Shed aims to deliver a ...
In the first part to the Future of Digital for the Arts series digital arts professionals from across the theatre industry shared their opinions on what they thought the future of digital could mean for the arts. From the introduction of 4G, to seeing the increase in digital in-house departments, it was clear that digital was a wide topic for discussion. Continuing the mini-series, this week's discussion looks at how ...
The use of digital in the arts feels like a given now for both arts organisations and audiences alike. Whether we're making work for digital platforms, integrating technology into our performances or using social networks to connect and engage our audiences, digital is paramount to the future of the arts. It's hard to ignore when priorities for engagement and usage is being set by governmental investment at the same time ...
March 04, 2013
Review: Port, National Theatre
Against a backdrop of concrete and perspex bus shelters, Simon Stephens's gritty and devastating Port is being revived in a production by War Horse co-director Marianne Elliot at the National Theatre. Set within Stephens's hometown of Stockport Port follows thirteen years of Rachel (Kate O'Flynn) as she struggles to escape a town that constantly strives to bring her crashing down. From a destructive family to an abusive ...
March 04, 2013
Review: The Captain of Köpenick, National Theatre
Sometimes it is not so much a production that you enjoy as it is an actor who holds the production together making it enjoyable. Such are my feelings towards the National Theatre's The Captain of Köpenick with Antony Sher leading as the mischief making Wilhelm Voigt. After fifteen years imprisonment Voigt is released back to society, but without any official paperwork his prospects are looking bleak. To attain work you ...
