Acts of theatre resistance: Insignificance, The Lorax, Young Marx, Imagine This, Bernarda Alba
Clockwise from top left: Young Marx, The House of Bernarda Alba, Insignificance, Imagine This
Podcast and photos: Ian McDiarmid and What Shadows cast on Enoch Powell and THAT speech
How do we talk to those that we hate? How do we speak across the anger that divides us? Those are the opening lines in Chris Hannan's provocative new play, What Shadows - and they were also amongst the questions raised at my post-show Q&A.
My (non-Edinburgh) theatre diary: Salad Days, Mrs Orwell, Boom and Cowboy Rufus
Clockwise from top left: Mrs Orwell, Salad Days, Boom and King Cowboy Rufus Rules
Q&A photos and podcast: A return to Brechtian politics via The Caucasian Chalk Circle
What would Bertolt Brecht have made of Donald Trump? Brecht's "epic theatre" was sparked by the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. Many pundits have likened the political period we've now entered with that dark decade of the twentieth century.
Tanya Moodie on Trump: ‘We need to keep marching together, every day’
Women's March London, 21 January 2017. © Peter Jones This week the president
6 Quotes: What can Buried Child tell us about Trump’s America?
Ed Harris in Sam Shepard's Buried Child at Trafalgar Studios What does Sam