Thoughts on Theatre in Jake’s blog.
Stuart Semple’s solo exhibition, the first to exhibit new work in London for four years, is a playful look at how we view entertainment and our abilities to let go, to play and to – as the exhibition title suggests … Continued
Theatre criticism is booming. Theatre criticism is in a crisis. These two statements sit side by side with apparent contradiction to each other, but they are both true. In the UK in 2013 we are experiencing both a boom within … Continued
Having been playing in the West End since it’s opening in 2006, Wicked, based upon Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, has had world-wide success, and it’s easy to see why. Twisting … Continued
Dear Mark (Scrooge) Shenton, I’m frustrated and saddened by your tweet last night which has revealed what the show is in the first (although happens to be the second) show of the Secret Theatre season from Lyric Hammersmith. Your deliberate … Continued
I’ve always considered myself a good speech writer and deliver. There’s something performative that I can take from my training and apply it to when I stand before conferences or at events to deliver a speech. Writing the speech for … Continued
As a teenager at school I was set an English assignment to write a speech upon a topic that I was passionate about. At the time my teenage self was angry at the amount of money that had been pumped … Continued
This week the Arts Council England have launched their Advocacy Toolkit, which aims to give arts organisations a clear demonstration of the “value of public investment in the arts and culture”. The toolkit is designed to assist organisations in presenting … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued