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Eliza Clark’s BookTok sensation Boy Parts becomes a one-woman show
Aimée Kelly will star in adaptation of the 2020 novel about an artist who takes explicit photographs of young men
Natasha Tripney
20, Sep, 2023 @8:19 AM
‘We’ve had one Fleabag. We can’t have another’ – has the legendary Edinburgh hit become a curse?
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s uncouth one-woman show is seen as the epitome of festival success. But 10 years on, we speak to three fringe performers battling to escape its long shadow
Natasha Tripney
21, Aug, 2023 @3:33 PM
‘Gone, but still here’: how vanished flight MH370 is reflected in a father’s dementia
A new theatre show by Helgard Haug weaves together the tragedy of the 2014 flight disaster with the slow decline of her parent. She explains how the two stories came together
Natasha Tripney
15, May, 2023 @11:36 AM
‘She was transgressing expectations’: the Victorian war artist who inspired a drag show
Her military painting was such a sensation that it was bought by Queen Victoria. A new play explores Elizabeth Southerden Thompson’s trailblazing art, her privilege – and the prejudice she faced
Natasha Tripney
18, Apr, 2023 @8:19 AM
Boldly not going: zero-travel ‘touring’ play paves the way for eco theatre
Using local creatives and actors, director Katie Mitchell’s A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction is a narrative response to the climate crisis and an experiment in sustainability
Natasha Tripney
21, Feb, 2023 @11:45 AM
Operation Mincemeat: ‘little victory’ for fringe theatre as musical marches into West End
SpitLip’s award-winning show, based on an audacious episode of wartime espionage, takes over from The Woman in Black at the Fortune theatre
Natasha Tripney
21, Nov, 2022 @10:00 AM
‘A call to arms’: Sophie Melville returns to furious drama about austerity’s brutal impact
It was her breakout role – and now the actor is starring once more in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott, a play that resonates with her personally and politically
Natasha Tripney
12, Sep, 2022 @6:58 AM
‘I want to do things I’ve never done’: The History Boys’ Samuel Barnett on his new one-man show
Making his fringe debut with a show about a troubled standup, the actor explains why he loves solo performance, his issues with The History Boys, and why this government’s days are numbered
Natasha Tripney
16, Aug, 2022 @6:00 AM
‘A revolution that never happened’: The Gunpowder Plot at the Tower of London
Virtual reality and live performance combine in a new show that asks audiences to consider if political violence is ever justifiable
Natasha Tripney
09, May, 2022 @11:15 AM
Uncanny Valley: the moving one-man play – starring an animatronic robot
It was a play that gave us the word “robot” – and now an android is the performer in a groundbreaking new production. But can it make us laugh – and cry?
Natasha Tripney
21, Feb, 2022 @8:00 AM
‘I thought I’d written a stinker’ – Alistair McDowall on global hit Pomona and new play The Glow
He’s written horrors, thrillers and sci-fi odysseys. As his new play about Victorian spiritualism opens, the dramatist explains why no territory is out of bounds for theatre, not even Pluto
Natasha Tripney
11, Jan, 2022 @4:16 PM
The billionaire and the Bolivian train cemetery: bold epic Rare Earth Mettle
Playwright Al Smith discusses his continent-hopping new work about the climate crisis, inspired by rusting locomotives and the Lithium Triangle in the Andes
Natasha Tripney
02, Nov, 2021 @8:35 AM
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