Published in the Evening Standard August 16, 2021
There’s a new pop-up coming to Brixton – and it’s not a trend-setting bar or foodie destination, but a theatre. Roundabout, an in-the-round venue run by theatre company Paines Plough, will sprout in Slade Gardens this month, offering ten days of live performance: four new plays performed in rep, plus cabaret, comedy and community workshops.
Continue reading “Theatre goes hyper-local: Paines Plough brings its pop-up stage to Brixton”Published in The i paper October 28, 2020
“I had this anxiety that I would just be extremely rusty,” says Tinuke Craig, with an apologetic smile, when I ask how it feels to be back in a rehearsal room. While the director is thrilled to be preparing for a socially distanced production and live stream of Sarah Kane’s stark, poetic play Crave at Chichester Festival Theatre, she was nervous about getting back to work, too.
Continue reading “Tinuke Craig: ‘Part of me feels Black Lives Matter brought people together; part thinks people were bored’”Published in The i Paper September 24, 2020
When lockdown was announced, Francesca Martinez’s play All of Us was in its final week of rehearsals at the National Theatre.
Continue reading “Rufus Norris on theatre and class: There’s ‘an awful danger’ that only people with money can survive in the industry”Published in The Observer September 27, 2020
Last summer, the Observer profiled a group of newly-appointed artistic directors – a fresh surge of talent taking its place at the top of six of our best-loved theatre companies. A notably diverse cohort, they were bursting with optimism and ideas for shaking up the industry.
Continue reading “‘There will be positives’: artistic directors on theatre’s terrible year”