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 Juli 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 Juli 202330min
As You Like It matured at the RSC
As You Like It is one of William Shakespeare's most popular comedies. Omar Elerian, who is directing his first show for the Royal Shakespeare Company, was keen to explore it from a "fresh and new pers...
14 Juli 202322min
Edfringe 2023: Graeae's Jenny Sealey returns to performing after three decades
Jenny Sealey has been artistic director of Graeae since 1997, a theatre company, which, according to its web site, "boldly places Deaf and disabled artists centre-stage in a diversity of new and exist...
8 Juli 202338min
Zero-waste theatre The Greenhouse tours Docklands
The Greenhouse is billed as the UK's first zero-waste performance space, holding up to 50 audience members in its in-the-round venue made from found and recycled materials. BTG Editor David Chadderton...
17 Maj 202327min
