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18 December 2024
Sandy Thomson joins the battle against sexism in the arts
When we decided to tackle the idea of sexism in the arts, we got the chance to speak to Scottish playwright and filmmaker Sandy Thomson. For years, she has been fighting discrimination against women in
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2 August 2021
Through the Ages: The Ban of Music and Theatre
The consequences of Puritan England over music and theatre.
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28 July 2021
Annie Get Your Gun review
After the fabulous success of ‘Songs Under The Stars’ last year, new theatre company, Betley Court Farm Productions, came back with a bang with their showing of the fantastic musical: Annie Get Your Gun.
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22 July 2021
Manchester International Festival: Download and Run Zoom
When travel restrictions forced Lucinda Childs to postpone a project with the Ballet National de Marseille, the American choreographer began meeting the Ballet’s Artistic Directors – LA(HORDE) – via Zoom.
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16 July 2021
Notes on Grief
An affecting exploration of loss and remembrance, Notes on Grief adapts Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s original essay for the stage at this year’s Manchester International Festival.
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16 July 2021
Review: This Camera is Broken
Brimming with concentrated emotion and a dash of ambiguity, This Camera is Broken depicts a conversation between a veteran director and her younger self.
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16 July 2021
Through the Ages: The First Written Music
What you probably didn’t realise about the Middle Ages…
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12 July 2021
Brighton Fringe Review: SWAN
A quasi-French fever dream bound up in swans, mime, and a spectacular nude finish. C’est trés bien!
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12 July 2021
The hunger for space, life, laughter, sex: Interview with Courtney Buchner
"Women often stay small because... taking up space can be horrifically scary and it’s not just a one-time decision. We have to make that decision every time we step into a business meeting, an appointment, a restaurant, our bedrooms."
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9 July 2021
The Macbeth Curse Review - By Ervin
This is my review of The Macbeth Curse by Prime Theatre
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9 July 2021 – 1 August 2021
Online Emerging Artist Residency with FACT Liverpool
FACT is inviting artists living or working in the North of England to create new digital work in the latest round of its FACT Together commissioning scheme. FACT Together will offer 4 early-career artists a grant of £2500 each plus a production budget of £1500 to develop an idea that will be presented online.
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7 April 2021 – 12 July 2021
The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2021
The aim of the Prize is to celebrate and support women playwrights and to discover the best new work from writers at all levels of experience.
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13 October 2021
Luke Wright announces Colchester date for ‘lost’ third play in trilogy
Award winning poet announces Essex date for 'lost' third instalment of trilogy. Fast-paced and thrilling verse play about Brexit and marriage told in blistering verse visits Colchester Arts Centre on 13 October.
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9 September 2021
Luke Wright: Poet announces Nottingham date for third ‘lost’ trilogy play
Award winning poet announces Nottingham date for 'lost' third instalment of trilogy. Fast-paced and thrilling verse play about Brexit and marriage told in blistering verse visits Nottingham Playhouse on 29 September
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29 July 2021
Luke Wright: Poet announces Cambridge date for third ‘lost’ trilogy play
Award winning poet announces Cambridge date for 'lost' third instalment of trilogy. Fast-paced and thrilling verse play about Brexit and marriage told in blistering verse visits Cambridge Junction on 29 July.
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14 October 2021 – 15 October 2021
Luke Wright: The Ballad Seller in Manchester
Multi award winning poet updates the scandalous, bawdy and colourful Georgian ballad storytelling style for the modern ear in his eleventh full length poetry show. It visits The Edge, Theatre & Arts Centre in Manchester on 14 and 15 October
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10 October 2021
Luke Wright: The Ballad Seller in Brighton
Luke Wright, winner of Best Spoken Word Performer, 2021 Saboteur Awards, has based his new full length poetry show on bawdy Georgian street ballads and takes it to Brighton's Komedia on Sunday 10 October while touring the UK
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5 July 2021
Voice Retrospects: Antigone
Looking back on a superb portrayal of a Greek classic.