There is surely no better way to break apart and bust taboos, than to unpack them, loud and proud, in a public space, and there can be no greater thrill than to make work that leads this conversation. Is it the responsibility of theatre to do this? And is it …
Dementia. Whether we are at an age where we fear it for ourselves, or whether we fear it for the sake of our loved ones, dementia has a foreboding, threatening presence in the lives of millions of families. Whether you have read in the headlines that diagnosis is on the …
I was recently invited on board with Ja? Theatre Company as producer for their inaugural production, /Sylvia\. Ja? Theatre Company is a newly established theatre company founded by Dutch director Anne Mulleners and Norwegian Actor/ Dramaturge Melissa Syversen. Their ambition? To find ways to mix and adapt European theatre traditions, mainly focused …
‘Conquest’, the debut production from female-led Pear Shaped Theatre, is a subversive and delightfully NOT straight-faced-and-deadly-serious take on what it is to be a young woman and a feminist. Writer Katie Carden has stuck the difficult balance between tough-talking and comedy, with… Cupcakes. Literally. She’s pelted that boundary with cupcakes. But …
Ja? theatre company formed in 2017 as a partnership between director Anne Mulleners and dramatrug Melissa Syversen, who met studying dramaturgy at Royal Central School of Drama the previous year. Anne is a Dutch director and has worked as a SM and AD on several productions including Sweet Like Chocolate, Boy by Tristan …
Full Disclosure Theatre are a theatre company committed to exploring LGBTQ+ narratives. Made up of Artistic Directors Chris Davis and Sam Luffman, who met training on the StoneCrabs Young Directors Programme 2016/2017, they produce and direct passionate and challenging new work with a queer element On the 11th of February they …
One of the most amazing things about the Vault festival is the sheer volume of work that is on, brimming over with variety, bursting at the seems with challenges, with questions – and our appetite increases for more, year on year. Naturally, in these damp caverns of creativity, there is …
You’re reading this review. So, if you’re not one of these girls, you probably know one. And if you don’t think you do, you do… they’re just hiding it well. Sorry, who am I talking about? Well. It probably won’t shock you to learn the artists who make the …
In a departure from the more off the wall, experimental Vaults Festival fare going on all around, Say Something Happened is a rather more sedate offering out on the fringe, tucked away in the independent Network Theatre. The one-act play is a stage adaptation of a 1982 Alan Bennett television drama. Bennett …
A selection of images from photographing For a Black Girl in Brick Hall at Vault Festival 2018. Written by and performed by Nicole Acquah. Featuring: PJ Stanley, Sarah Page, Carly McCann, Chusi Amoros, Elisha-Grace Lawrence-Bardsley. For a Black Girl For a Black Girl will next be playing at the Camden People’s Theatre for one night only, …
