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Silk Road Q&A video and photos: How DO you buy drugs online? And write a play about it?

By |2020-02-01T22:14:07+00:0014 August 2018|Tags: , , , , , , |

How do you buy drugs online? What was Silk Road? Could the libertarians on it actually be steering us towards a more humane drug policy? Or is a play about this dark-web marketplace glamourising drugs? What do you do with a bitcoin production donation?
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The One Q&A podcast and photos: Why do we need more intimacy directors in theatre?

By |2020-02-01T22:17:29+00:0030 July 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

What is an intimacy director? How do they change the power dynamic on a production? Why have we had to wait for the #MeToo backlash to get them?
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Knights of the Rose Q&A video and photos: Defining the new ‘rockspeare’ genre and celebrating understudies (sort of)

By |2020-02-01T22:26:02+00:0027 July 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Wednesday afternoon, Jennifer Caldwell was working in the box office at the Arts Theatre. That night, with less than three hours' rehearsal, she was onstage playing one of the female leads.
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Q&A video and photos: Little Voice makes a big impact at the Barn

By |2020-02-01T22:30:16+00:0023 July 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Are women punished in drama for liking sex and drink? What has modern classic The Rise and Fall of Little Voice got in common with Greek drama? What's the secret to vocal impressions?
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It Happened in Key West Q&A video and photos: But did it ACTUALLY happen? (Yes)

By |2020-02-01T22:34:48+00:0012 July 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Andrew Lloyd Webber came up twice in conversation at last night's post-show for It Happened in Key West. The second pertained to the title of the show when, many years ago, Jeremiah James was first inspired by a late-night television documentary about Carl von Cosel.
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Q&A video and photos: Why are we still so fascinated by these Sirens of the Silver Screen?

By |2020-02-01T22:38:02+00:006 July 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

If you had to choose just three Hollywood legends to build a theatre show around, who would you choose? For Sirens of the Silver Screen, Beth Burrows selected Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe.
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Pressure Q&A video and photos: How did David Haig come to write and star in a play about unsung Scottish hero and weatherman James Stagg?

By |2020-02-01T22:44:04+00:003 July 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

If you'd never heard of the James Stagg before David Haig's latest play Pressure, don't feel bad: neither had he. Haig was approached by director John Dove and Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre who wanted to create a play about an unsung Scottish hero.
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Beirut Q&A video and photos: When is an AIDS play not really about AIDS at all?

By |2020-02-01T22:44:56+00:0015 June 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

A warning to start: Beirut is not for the prudish. In this two-hander, Robert Rees' Torch starts the evening buck naked (doing pull-ups).
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The Yellow Wallpaper Q&A video and photos: What does a 19th-century American short story tell us about modern misogyny and mental health?

By |2020-02-01T22:49:13+00:0014 June 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Audience member Jessica McClellan at the Omnibus Theatre tweeted that last night's post-show discussion for The Yellow Wallpaper was "deep AF".
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Q&A video and photos: Why has Italy largely forgotten what happened at San Domino?

By |2020-02-01T22:50:39+00:0010 June 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Before the performance at Tristan Bates Theatre, the 16-strong company of San Domino entertain theatregoers in the bar with some jaunty patriotic songs, with which they lead them into the auditorium.
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