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Guest Blog: Actor Fifi Garfield on The Challenges of Preparing For THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES in BSL
Guest Blog: Actor Fifi Garfield on The Challenges of Preparing For THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES in BSL
July 4, 2025

I’m Fifi Garfield and I’m an actor. I’m also deaf, I was born deaf and have been using sign language as my primary source of communication all my life. I use British Sign Language - BSL - daily, hourly, every minute! It’s how I communicate with people and how I access the world.

Guest Blog: 'It Might Be The Best Opera Ever Written': Director Mariame Clément on Glyndebourne's New Production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Guest Blog: 'It Might Be The Best Opera Ever Written': Director Mariame Clément on Glyndebourne's New Production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
June 20, 2025

Le Nozze di Figaro is a piece I’ve been living with as long as I can remember. To me, it might be the best opera ever written: it makes me laugh, it moves me to tears, the plot twists still fill me with delight, and all the characters have potential for complexity and depth. It is the only piece I’ve ever revisited: this production will be my third, and not only do I not get tired of it, it seems to get more exciting each time.

Guest Blog: Writer and Composer Tim Firth On Creating THIS IS MY FAMILY
Guest Blog: Writer and Composer Tim Firth On Creating THIS IS MY FAMILY
June 11, 2025

Someone 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: 'My Preference Is To Create An Alternative Floating Reality': Artistic Director Henry Maynard On The Flabbergast Process And Why Shakespeare Is Better Weird
Guest Blog: 'My Preference Is To Create An Alternative Floating Reality': Artistic Director Henry Maynard On The Flabbergast Process And Why Shakespeare Is Better Weird
June 4, 2025

It is without doubt that the plays that we attribute to Shakespeare are genius. They examine what it is to be a human and have survived centuries and multiple adaptations precisely because of this fact: love, jealousy, hatred and grief are all the same regardless of whether your father was a Duke from Verona or a Welsh coal miner. 

Guest Blog: Playwright Nancy Netherwood on Her New Play RADIANT BOY
Guest Blog: Playwright Nancy Netherwood on Her New Play RADIANT BOY
May 22, 2025

Horror 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: 'It Offers Intimacy Without Spectacle': Producer and Actor Olivia Lindsay on CONVERSATIONS AFTER SEX at the Park Theatre
Guest Blog: 'It Offers Intimacy Without Spectacle': Producer and Actor Olivia Lindsay on CONVERSATIONS AFTER SEX at the Park Theatre
May 7, 2025

Creating Conversations After Sex was a raw, intimate, and often challenging process—much like the show itself. At its core, the project began with a question: What happens in those unguarded moments between people when they think no one is watching?

Guest Blog: 'What These Men Thought and Did Still Matters': Co-Writer Robert Khan on New Political Play THE GANG OF THREE at King's Head Theatre
Guest Blog: 'What These Men Thought and Did Still Matters': Co-Writer Robert Khan on New Political Play THE GANG OF THREE at King's Head Theatre
April 29, 2025

Since the earliest times, theatre that speaks to the state of the nation has always been a cultural mainstay, and plays that speak to the practise of politics seem to have enduring popularity – from David Hare’s The Absence of War to Alistair Beaton’s Feelgood, along with the works of Mike Bartlett, Peter Morgan, Jonathan Maitland and of course James Graham.

Guest Blog: Anna Holmes, Co-Director of Northern Rascals, on Mental Health, Grief and Finding The Light in New Play SUNNY SIDE
Guest Blog: Anna Holmes, Co-Director of Northern Rascals, on Mental Health, Grief and Finding The Light in New Play SUNNY SIDE
April 7, 2025

I grew up in a small northern town—now known to the world as the real Happy Valley. It’s a place of two sides: a creative, hippy-dippy haven filled with wacky parades and free hugs, yet also a town weighed down by thick clouds, hidden struggles, and an undercurrent of mental health crises.

Guest Blog: 'PR is All About Storytelling': Chloé Nelkin of CNC on Communication, Female Empowerment and Celebrating 15 Years of Arts PR
Guest Blog: 'PR is All About Storytelling': Chloé Nelkin of CNC on Communication, Female Empowerment and Celebrating 15 Years of Arts PR
March 17, 2025

I started CNC in 2010, towards the tail end of my Masters degree at The Courtauld Institute of Art – where I’d also studied for my undergraduate degree in History of Art.  I stumbled into PR, almost by chance, while working on the East Wing Collection exhibition.  So much hard work was going into the exhibition that I decided I wanted more people to see this and so I started emailing journalists. 

Guest Blog: Morag Davies and Rob Ellis of Relish Theatre
Guest Blog: Morag Davies and Rob Ellis of Relish Theatre
March 12, 2025

Relish 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 INTRUSION
Guest Blog: Actors Alex Hinson and Kitty Devlin on THE INTRUSION
March 4, 2025

About 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 V
Review: TIL UNGDOMMEN at Teater V
February 28, 2025

Til 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. 

Guest Blog: 'It’s Demanding and Thrilling in Equal Measure': Director Caroline Bryant on Representing Female Neurodiversity in ARGOS ARCHIVES
Guest Blog: 'It’s Demanding and Thrilling in Equal Measure': Director Caroline Bryant on Representing Female Neurodiversity in ARGOS ARCHIVES
March 1, 2025

In Argos Archives, the main character, ‘Woman’, invites the audience to have their fortune told by flicking through the pages of the Argos catalogue. Using the ancient practice of stichomancy (the jury is still out on the correct pronunciation!) Woman takes control of her life and offers the same for our audience, through the comforting order offered by the Argos catalogue. The audience will go on a journey with Woman, accompanying her through the archives of her life, conducted by the ‘book of dreams’.

Guest Blog: 'Connecting With People Is Why I Do It': Playwright Jane Upton On The Challenges of Writing and Motherhood in Creating (THE) WOMAN
Guest Blog: 'Connecting With People Is Why I Do It': Playwright Jane Upton On The Challenges of Writing and Motherhood in Creating (THE) WOMAN
February 10, 2025

A few months back I bought a bag of mushroom powder off Instagram to improve my focus. It didn’t work. I’m always looking for a magic fix for my messy brain, especially now I’m a mum. Before I had kids I used to write into the night. I could work better when the rest of the world was settled and daybreak seemed like a natural deadline. I was free to set my own schedule and didn’t really give it much thought.

Ethan Ramos: A Life Lived Full Out, Onstage and Off
Ethan Ramos: A Life Lived Full Out, Onstage and Off
February 6, 2025

On 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: Playwright John Ransom Philips on the Evolution of MRS PRESIDENT
Guest Blog: Playwright John Ransom Philips on the Evolution of MRS PRESIDENT
January 28, 2025

When I ventured into the world of playwriting, I found myself in completely new territory. Unlike painting, the written word invites evolution. A play is never truly “done.” It transforms, grows, and contracts.

Guest Blog: 'It’s Beautiful and Ugly': Director Annie Kershaw on Power and Control in New Adaptation of THE MAIDS
Guest Blog: 'It’s Beautiful and Ugly': Director Annie Kershaw on Power and Control in New Adaptation of THE MAIDS
January 8, 2025

In 2024 I was Carne Deputy Director at Jermyn Street Theatre. The role was designed to teach the recipient about the day to day running of a theatre with the view to one day leading a building.

Guest Blog: 'The Play is Preoccupied With Uniformity and Assimilation': Writer Saana Sze on Their New Work BELLY OF THE BEAST
Guest Blog: 'The Play is Preoccupied With Uniformity and Assimilation': Writer Saana Sze on Their New Work BELLY OF THE BEAST
December 27, 2024

I started thinking about what would become Belly of the Beast in 2019. The year had seen protests, by parents, outside schools which had proposed teaching an inclusive curriculum. I couldn’t stop imagining how it’d feel to be an LGBT student and have, possibly, the parents of my friends essentially protesting against me.

Guest Blog: Mark Curry on His Podcast, BACKSTAGE CURRY
Guest Blog: Mark Curry on His Podcast, BACKSTAGE CURRY
December 6, 2024

The 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.



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