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Edinburgh Fringe: Noel Byrne Talks Gulliver’s Travels & Casting The Runes
Noel Byrne is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Box Tale Soup and is currently a performer for the company. Outside of this, he’s enjoyed an extremely varied professional career including everything from Shakespeare on stage to voice and motion capture for video games, as well as television work for the BBC’s Doctor Who, The…
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Writer & Director Tomás Ferreira Talks Short Film In a House, At Night
Available to watch from today, In a House, At Night follows 7-year-old Lynn who leaves her mother after a tantrum and wanders the corridors of the women’s shelter where they’re living, coming face to face with the residents’ nightmares. After reviewing the short, Anna was able to ask writer & director Tomás Ferreira more about his creative process. Hi Tomás, thanks for joining us on…
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Under Milk Wood – Theatre Review
NO one can accuse the Progress Theatre in Reading of lacking ambition. Thirteen years on from the theatre’s youth group staging Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, the Progress has returned to the 1954 radio drama for a production under the guidance of the impressive Ali Carroll. It’s a sparkling production, given an extra lift by…
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Love Steps – Theatre Review
What is love? And what are our expectations of it in the 21st century? Love Steps, written and directed by Anastasia Osei-Kuffour, is a beautiful portrait showcasing the chapters we go through when dating in modern society. In Osei-Kuffour’s debut play, pressures of significant others and personal identity are wonderfully captured and told within every aspect. Through poetry, monologues, even music,…
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F**k Fatphobia: Actress Rachel Stockdale Talks Fat Chance
Actress Rachel Stockdale joins us on Close-Up Culture to chat about her one-woman play, Fat Chance. This funny and politically powerful show explores Rachel’s true-life experience of weight gain from size 8 to 18, and the challenges she has faced along the way in her effort to carve out a career as an actress. Hi Rachel!…
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Close-Up: An Interview With Kunstler Playwright Jeffrey Sweet
Playwright Jeffrey Sweet joins us on Close-Up Culture to tell us about his play Kunstler, which comes to The White Bear Theatre in May. Hi Jeffrey, lovely to be speaking with you! Starting with the broadest question, what inspired you to write Kunstler? I was aware of William Kunstler when I was a kid in the Sixties. In…
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The Interview – Theatre Review
Last Friday (27th) a friend and I took ourselves off to the theatre to witness the opening night of Jonathan Maitland’s play The Interview, directed by Michael Fenitman. The play dissects arguably the most famous television interview ever – Martin Bashir’s conversation with Diana, Princess of Wales. With one of the most famous women in history…
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Come Out Fighting – Theatre Review
COME Out Fighting is a play that explores the theme of sexuality within the armed services – highlighting the fact that despite progress in embracing the LGBT community, the forces still have issues with homophobia. The result is akin to two tectonic plates, rubbing up against each other. Although not without its faults, the play…
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The Return Of Benjamin Lay – Theatre Review
THE Return Of Benjamin Lay is a powerful play that looks at the issue of slavery through the eyes of one of the British Empire’s first abolitionists. The feisty Lay, who died in 1759 aged 77, was a pioneering individual on so many fronts. He travelled the world as a sailor, married a girl whom…
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Silver Lining – Theatre Review
THERE is much to admire in the Progress Theatre’s storming production of Silver Lining – a play about the sometimes tragic stories that stay buried inside us for far too long. Set in a nursing home in Gravesend, Kent while a storm to end all storms (Storm Vera) blows outside, the play is awash with…
