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Turning Up The Heat
And by way of a neat segue from the last post, a new staging of Harold Pinter’s play The Hothouse has opened in London to rave reviews this week. The history of The Hothouse is that Pinter wrote… more →
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Turning Up The Heat
wrote 1 week ago: And by way of a neat segue from the last post, a new staging of Harold Pinter’s play The Hotho … more →
Brazilian Style
wrote 3 weeks ago: One of the problems of being a World theatre teacher who only speaks one language fluently (much to … more →
The Right Wei
wrote 1 month ago: I rarely post or post about theatre reviews here – they have little validity if you live in a … more →
Hanging by a Thread
wrote 1 month ago: For my 100th post I want to return to the work and life of a company dear to me and who I have blogg … more →
Immersive theatre - touchingly relevant
wrote 2 months ago: I’m in the UK this week and its bloody freezing – literally 0°C outside – hence my … more →
Stories that need to be told
wrote 2 months ago: I must be on holiday, as I have time post! Today I want to share three videos that have at their hea … more →
Challenge and Change
wrote 2 months ago: In a week where I have watched 13 fantastic, questioning and challenging pieces of devised GCSE Dram … more →
Fo-Fighting
wrote 2 months ago: One of my favourite playwrights is Dario Fo and I was reminded of this today, reading an article abo … more →
The Artists Are Revolting
wrote 3 months ago: My post today is for arts students, teachers, educators and professionals everywhere. As the economi … more →
A ruling for common sense
wrote 3 months ago: I’ll start today’s post with an apology to my regular readers. My Christmas holiday from … more →
Women in Theatre
wrote 5 months ago: Firstly, apologies for no posts recently, but a school production has swallowed me whole and just sp … more →
A Black Day
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wrote 6 months ago: I was going to keep this post until tomorrow, but I can’t wait. Pulitzer prize winning America … more →
Post Colonialism?
wrote 6 months ago: My post yesterday about the casting controversy in the UK has elicited some interesting responses an … more →
The Orphan of Zhao
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wrote 6 months ago: For the last few weeks I’ve been following a really interesting debate that has been getting t … more →
Stonewalled
wrote 7 months ago: . . . . . . . This is an image taken on 16th September of British theatre producer, David Cecil. He … more →
Hunger Games
wrote 8 months ago: Today I want to go back to a post I made in May about Juliano Mer-Khamis, a founder of the Freedom T … more →
Out of the Shadows
wrote 8 months ago: Today I am sharing an interview from the Huffington Post, between Katherine Brooks and Maria Tri Sul … more →
Burning down the House
wrote 8 months ago: This is the beautiful deco Bolivar Theatre, in Quito, Ecuador, which opened in 1933 with an audience … more →
On Cloud Nine
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wrote 8 months ago: I first encountered Caryl Churchill when I was doing my A Levels, many moons ago. It was her play, C … more →
