Guest Blog: Writer and Composer Tim Firth On Creating THIS IS MY FAMILYJune 11, 2025Someone once told me writing a musical with an original story would be like climbing Everest. This turned out to be not entirely true. A mountaineer at least knows Everest is there to be climbed. That it has a top to be reached. That it will not disappear under him halfway up. None of these comforts are afforded the writer. You have to have a really good reason for abandoning the reassurance of a pre-existing story.
Guest Blog: Playwright Nancy Netherwood on Her New Play RADIANT BOYMay 22, 2025Horror is one of my favourite genres, and one of cinema’s most profitable genres, but it’s still rarely attempted on stage. There are a handful of big horror stage hits - 2:22 A Ghost Story, The Woman in Black, Ghost Stories - which are gripping and entertaining, but tend to be, as the titles suggest, a particular kind of ghost story, operating on a system of jump scares, sudden blackouts and pre-recorded screams.
Guest Blog: Morag Davies and Rob Ellis of Relish TheatreMarch 12, 2025Relish Theatre was initially established in 2015, like many companies, to take a production to the Edinburgh Fringe. What started out as a feisty new-writing company has grown and evolved over time into the pretty specific niche we have now carved out for ourselves.
Guest Blog: Actors Alex Hinson and Kitty Devlin on THE INTRUSIONMarch 4, 2025About a year ago our director, Anna Marshall, came across a call-out from a company we have long admired, Told by an Idiot. They were looking for an Associate Company to make a piece in response to the climate emergency. We got a text from Anna saying, “Hey team, there’s an opportunity up from Told by an Idiot at the moment…” Her idea for the show? A story about a group of cockroaches who survive the apocalypse and share their perspective on how the world ended. “Think Six meets Operation Mincemeat meets Kafka’s Metamorphosis”…we were sold.
Review: TIL UNGDOMMEN at Teater VFebruary 28, 2025Til Ungdommen er baseret på norske Linn Skåbers bog af samme navn, hvor hun har talt med norske teenagere om, hvad der fylder i deres liv. Alt fra følelser, svigt og forelskelse til pres fra forældre. På scenen bliver bogen bragt til live af Adam Schmidt, Anna Hawa Kamuk Mnasi, Asbjørn Hays Thøgersen, Emma van der Vleuten Busk og Emil Hyldeborg. Alle 5 leverer en stærk præstation med både nerve og nærvær, der på hver sin måde adskiller sig fra hinanden.
Ethan Ramos: A Life Lived Full Out, Onstage and OffFebruary 6, 2025On January 23, 2025, the world lost a bright light. Our local theatre community lost a talented performer. I lost my dance partner, audience buddy, dear friend and the third part of our dressing room Pentatonix tribute band. Ethan Ramos was all of these things, but most of all, he was the best human.
Guest Blog: Mark Curry on His Podcast, BACKSTAGE CURRYDecember 6, 2024The Apollo Victoria Theatre is a theatre that has hosted Wicked since 2006, and a theatre I know all too well having played The Wizard during the UK’s 10th anniversary in 2016 and returned in 2023. On this second return I discovered podcasts. The 1 hour 20-minute wait before my first entrance was made easier by listening, and this inspired me to create a series of my own.