Only a few more chances to see Dante or Die’s acclaimed site-specific, one-man play User Not Found, running at The CoffeeWorks Project next to Battersea Power Station until this Sunday 2 June 2019. Have you been following our behind-the-scenes video series? Time to get booking before it’s too late!
‘One of our initial instincts was to stage the performance in a café’: Dante or Die’s Terry O’Donovan & Daphna Attias on User Not Found
As User Not Found prepares for its London transfer – running at The CoffeeWorks Project next to Battersea Power Station from 17 May to 2 June 2019 – the show’s co-creators and Dante or Die co-artistic directors Terry O’Donovan & Daphna Attias recall the article that originally inspired them. Time to get booking!
FEATURED SHOW: Check out the ★★★★★ reviews for Dante or Die’s site-specific hit User Not Found
Why has Time Out chosen Dante or Die’s User Not Found as one of its Top Theatre Picks for May? The raves that Time Out’s Andrzej Lukowski and so many other critics gave the show when it was first seen at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe gives a strong indication. We’ve rounded up our favourite review highlights below. The two-week-only London run begins this Friday – time to get booking!
WATCH: Dante or Die & Chris Goode’s digital groundbreaker User Not Found transfers to Battersea coffee shop
Following huge success at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, and a 2019 tour to cafes around the country Dante or Die’s ground-breaking digital hit User Not Found, written by Chris Goode, arrives this week in London, for a run at a coffee shop next to Battersea Power Station for a strictly limited two-week season. Time to get booking!
WATCH: Can you tell the difference between Cilla Black & Sarah Louise Hughes in her Little Voice audition?
Meet Sarah Louise Hughes, who, straight out of drama school, has been cast in the title role of Michael Strassen’s major new production of Jim Cartwright’s modern classic The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester. In the latest in our Featured Show series, watch as she starts her “new journey” via some extraordinary audition tapes of her singing Judy Garland and Cilla Black…
‘The Barn’s is a stunning energy to witness’: Michael Strassen on directing The Rise & Fall of Little Voice
Michael Strassen directs the new Barn Theatre, Cirencester production of Jim Cartwright’s Olivier Award-winning play with music, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. In the latest in our Feature Show series, Michael tells us more about the approach he’s taking and why London needs to sit up and take notice of what young artistic director Iwan Lewis is up to in the Cotswolds…
NEWS: Applications open for Network of Independent Critics’ third year at Edinburgh Fringe
The Network of Independent Critics, the brainchild of two outstanding bloggers in the My Theatre Mates collective, Katharine Kavanagh and Laura Kressly, ramps up for another Edinburgh Fringe. Applications are now open for this year’s festival. Well done, Katharine and Laura!
NEWS: Pleasance puts 132 more shows on sale for Edinburgh Fringe
The Pleasance celebrates 33 years on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer by adding its specially commissioned mobile theatre, appropriately Venue 33, to its complex. Plus, today (Thursday 20 April 2017), the Pleasance Theatre Trust announces 132 more shows on sale across all its venues with an array of exciting newcomers and Festival favourites highlighting the pages of Edinburgh Fringe 2017 programme, …
NEWS: Edinburgh International Festival releases free tickets for opening event
The Edinburgh International Festival today (Monday 11 July 2016) releases thousands of free tickets for the launch event of the city’s summer festival season, the Standard Life Opening Event: Deep Time.
What lengths will an artist go to to make something original?
This is what my debut is all about. The lengths an “artist” goes to make something original. It’s dark, funny and goes to some very surreal places.
NEWS: Two Mates launch Network of Independent Critics for Edinburgh Fringe
Two syndicate Mates in the My Theatre Mates collective – Katharine Kavanagh and Laura Kressly – today announce the Network of Independent Critics for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Read on for full details including how to apply. Well done, Katharine and Laura! Providing accommodation for established independent critics to visit Edinburgh Fringe without breaking the bank. Increasing media coverage of …
THIS WILL END BADLY – Southwark Playhouse
The playtext of Rob Hayes’ monologue austerely insists that performance “should not exceed 60 minutes in duration”. This author doesn’t want it larded with significant pauses or dreamy mannerisms: and in honouring his intention, the remarkable Ben Whybrow (directed by Clive Judd) brings it in just under. No mean feat: for all its emotional intricacy and verbal subtleties, the play at that length requires rapid-fire delivery bordering, quite often, on gabble.
NEWS: 2015 Edinburgh Fringe draws to a close after 50,459 performances
After 50,459 performances of 3,314 shows in 313 venues across Edinburgh, the curtain falls and the house lights go up on the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced that by Monday afternoon, with hundreds of performances still to take place, an estimated 2,298,090 tickets had been issued for shows across Scotland’s capital. The number of …
A busy and buzzy August update list
My last blog was 6th August and so I am offering two catch-ups. The first is a celebration list of all that I have done and seen since then. August is full of critical commentary and noise for anyone involved in Edinburgh or Tète â Tète or any of the amazing festivals, and some years […]
BARBU: ELECTRO TRAD CABARET – Edinburgh Fringe
Underbelly Circus Hub, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 11th August 2015 The trademark beards of Cirque Alfonse are back in a new show that seems a world away from the lumberjack theme of previous hit Timber! (which, I’m sad to say, I haven’t seen). The Electro of the title is reflected in the nightclub style set-up, complete with a […]
Love Birds: How to cast penguins and parrots in a new musical
How do you cast a new musical that requires a cast of parrots and penguins? After 14 years of casting films, TV dramas and plays, seasoned casting director Stephen Moore makes his musical theatre casting debut with Love Birds, a family musical by Robert J Sherman (son of Robert B Sherman of the Sherman Brothers fame) which premieres at next month’s Edinburgh Fringe.
#AlsoRecognised winner Christina Bianco: From Best Ensemble to Best Solo?
The Forbidden Broadway actors, winners of the inaugural #AlsoRecognised Award for Best Ensemble Performance, are gifts that keep on giving. First we had Damian Humbley‘s multiple #certificateselfies, including the famous Superman semi-nude one (steady, ladies … and lads). Then Anna-Jane Casey sent us her naked #certificateselfie …. and then we got a pair of them from Christina Bianco, such a …
Producer cries foul on ATG after free tickets request
What chutzpah! Producer David Johnson’s reaction to a request from ATG, the UK’s largest theatre owning group, for complimentary tickets to his production of Fascinating Aida’s Charm Offensive at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe is extraordinary. It shows the frustration of independent producers feeling the squeeze. I reprint Johnson’s letter to ATG’s Peter Evans in full… And will […]