Square Rounds is the seventh production from Proud Haddock, founded in 2014, and the first of its two this autumn to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. Founder and artistic director Jimmy Walters talks to us about milestones, introducing a new generation to the work of playwright Tony Harrison and the company’s future plans with artist Grayson Perry. Time to get booking!
NEWS: Full all-female cast announced for Proud Haddock’s revival of Tony Harrison’s Square Rounds
The all-female cast has been announced for Proud Haddock’s revival of Tony Harrison’s rarely seen World War One play Square Rounds. When it premiered at the National’s Olivier Theatre in 1992, it was performed by a 25-strong cast. It’s now brought to life by an ensemble cast of six in the 50-seat Finborough Theatre in September. Time to get booking!
‘Three years ago I was raped by my friend’: Victoria Cano on how she was forced to write debut play Pomegranate Season
As part of our Camden Fringe Featured Shows, we’re counting down to the #MeToo premiere of Pomegranate Season, running at London’s Cockpit Theatre from 20 to 22 August 2018. In our interview, author-actor-activist Victoria Cano tells us about the real-life rape that ‘forced’ her debut play out of her, why London is better than New York and how travelling restores her faith in humanity. Time to get booking!
‘There is an unbelievable crisis in Venezuela, but still we are making theatre’: Interview with award-winning playwright Gustavo Ott, who makes his UK debut with Your Molotov Kisses
How is the deepening crisis in Venezuela affecting theatremakers there? Award-winning playwright Gustavo Ott, who gets his overdue UK debut this month with a new production of 2002 play Your Molotov Kisses, discusses that and how his five years living in London as a young immigrant – working as a theatre usher, meeting Harold Pinter, flat-sharing with ETA separatists – shaped him and his art.
‘Women paid the highest price’: Christina Tranholm on the true wartime events that inspired The German Girls
As rehearsals continue for The German Girls in preparation for its Camden Fringe debut, we spoke to London-based Danish writer and actress Christina Tranholm about sharing the hidden stories of Danish women who fell in love with German soldiers during the Second World War – and how relevant it still is today.
When ‘just cheer up’ is like ‘just being on the moon’: Kim Scopes on happiness, puppetry, Jim Broadbent & her new play BLUE
As BLUE prepares for its premiere at London’s Camden Fringe, we talk to writer and performer Kim Scopes. Created with director Holli Dillon by their new theatre company the Sycorax Collective, the one-woman abstract fairy tale runs 15 to 19 August 2018 at Etcetera Theatre. Read our interview below to find out why there’s a woman stuck on the moon and what Jim Broadbent once gave her for Christmas… and then get booking!
‘Better than a night on his console’: What have gamers, Shakespeare fans & other theatregoers said about Super Hamlet 64?
Next up in our Camden Fringe Featured Show series: after acclaim on tour, transgender theatremaker Edward/Edalia Day brings Super Hamlet 64, a new comedy about “videogames and death” and Shakespeare, to London for two festival dates at the Cockpit Theatre on 17 and 18 August 2018. What if you woke up and realised that your life was actually a computer game? Your Dad just …