Gecko's migration stories travel to the National
Physical theatre company Gecko, based in Ipswich, was founded in 2001 by Amit Lahav, who is still its Artistic Director. The company's latest production, Kin, toured the UK in 2023 and will be at the ...
20 Des 202337min
Mark Thomas on England & Son
Mark Thomas is a stand-up comic whose work for stage and TV has frequently crossed over into theatre and into political activism, in some cases resulting in changes in the law. He is currently perform...
17 Nov 202342min
Stephen Schwartz on bringing The Prince from screen to stage and back to screen
The Prince of Egypt, the DreamWorks animated film from 1998, was brought to the West End stage in 2020 at the Dominion Theatre but had to take a break due to the COVID lockdown. It completed its run t...
17 Okt 202319min
Tamasha brings Indian partition to Manchester via Dickens
Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre and Tamasha will present Tanika Gupta's adaptation of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens set during the Indian partition in Bengal, directed by Pooja Ghai, Artis...
30 Aug 202332min
Willie White on the 2023 Dublin Theatre Festival
Dublin Theatre Festival in Ireland has been running since 1957, and Willie White has been its Artistic Director and Chief Executive since 2011. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Willie about the 20...
23 Aug 202327min
Edinburgh 2023: backhold wrestling at the Traverse
Glasgow-based writer Nat McCleary's play Thrown for National Theatre Scotland is set in the world of backhold wrestling and is concluding its tour of Scotland with a run at the Traverse Theatre in Edi...
16 Aug 202333min
Michie and Young in new Arnott Summer Portrait
Towards the end of its summer season, Pitlochry Festival Theatre will present the world première of a new play by Peter Arnott, Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape, set in a Perthshire country house ...
28 Jul 202332min
Mei Mac: from 4-year-old to century-old prisoner of Western stereotypes
Kimber Lee's provocatively titled winner of the first International Award from the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2019, untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, opened in June 2023 at the Royal Exchange Th...
19 Jul 202330min
