What would you do if you lost your smartphone? Are we all in need of a digital detox? In our interview with EROS author Kevin Mandry, he discusses screen addiction, Herbert Lom onstage, his favourite playwrights, the kiss of the camera, digital detox ambitions and more. Read up… and then get booking!
THE CASTLE – The Space ★★★★
In Howard Barker’s play The Castle, like after the Second World War, a group of men return from the Crusades to find their home ‘unrecognisible’. Unfettered by formal hierarchies, a matriarchal commune has organically sprung up, bringing sweeping changes.
FEATURED SHOW: Howard Barker’s The Castle at The Space, ★★★★ reviews are in!
Have you booked yet to see The Space’s rare revival of 1985 play The Castle? This major new production of Howard Barker’s “theatre of catastrophe” modern classic marks ten years of Space Productions at its historic converted church home in the Isle of Dogs, east London, where it runs until 28 October 2017 only. We’ve rounded up some of our favourite …
THE CASTLE – The Space
Howard Barker’s play The Castle opens with the men returning from the crusades to find their fields neglected and their women astray. The men aren’t happy with their loss of authority and a savage battle of the sexes ensues.
The Castle Interview: ‘There’s no fighting, men are only used for baby-making’
As The Space’s rare revival of Howard Barker’s 1985 dystopian masterpiece THE CASTLE opens, stars Anthony Cozens and Shelley Davenport talk power, love and what audiences can expect.
PHOTOS: Cast of Howard Barker’s The Castle rehearse in converted church The Space
The Space is celebrating ten years of Space Productions at its home in the Isle of Dogs, east London, with a rare revival of Howard Barker’s 1985 play The Castle, which runs from 10 to 28 October 2017 only. Sneak a peek into how rehearsals are going for Barker’s “theatre of catastrophe” offering in this historic converted church building.
NEWS: The Space celebrates tenth birthday with rare revival of Howard Barker’s The Castle
The Space, the acclaimed east London arts venue under the patronage of Sir Ian McKellen, celebrates ten years of Space Productions with a rare revival of Howard Barker’s 1985 play The Castle. If you haven’t yet been, or even if you have, it’s the perfect opportunity to visit one of London’s “most exciting fringe venues”. Full cast now announced.
Is Julian Fellowes right? Are period dramas & BME performers incompatible?
Julian Fellowes has defended the all-white casting on Half a Sixpence by stating “It is in keeping with period”. Whilst Fellowes justification may make sense to him, it sounds ridiculous to everyone else
Howard Barker’s play doesn’t drase minorities, The Print Room Does
As The Print Room’s controversially cast production of Howard Barker’s In the Depths of Love opens this week, here’s a guest contribution from Daniel York.
An industry-wide new year’s resolution: Open letter to the Print Room
An industry making resolutions? Now that’s something I can get behind – people working together for a common goal is what theatre is about, on a microcosmic level anyway, and more unity is surely a good thing in a world becoming increasingly polarised.
NEWS: Print Room mounts four world premieres in 2017, Princess Eugenie becomes patron
Artistic Director Anda Winters today announces Print Room at the Coronet’s next season of work in its new, permanent home. The Spring/Summer 2017 programme, in Notting Hill’s reinvigorated Victorian play and opera house, features four world premieres.
NEWS: Print Room mounts four world premieres in 2017, Princess Eugenie becomes patron
Artistic Director Anda Winters today announces Print Room at the Coronet’s next season of work in its new, permanent home. The Spring/Summer 2017 programme, in Notting Hill’s reinvigorated Victorian play and opera house, features four world premieres.
GERTRUDE – Theatre N16
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GERTRUDE – Theatre N16
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INTERVIEW: Director Chris Hislop on Howard Barker’s Gertrude
Both – my favourite thing about this play is how it was written to empower an underwritten female character, and yet does such a piss-poor job of doing so. Or maybe it doesn’t – maybe Barker’s aggressive sexualising of Gertrude and blatant female nudity throughout is his attempt at female empowerment. Either way, he’s not a misogynist. Barker’s obsession with women has translated into some wonderful parts in his shows, and he’s always trying to write pieces that celebrate and empower them, just through a rather perverse lens. I don’t want to circumnavigate that entirely, just sand down some of the sharper corners.
INTERVIEW: Director Chris Hislop on Howard Barker’s Gertrude
Both – my favourite thing about this play is how it was written to empower an underwritten female character, and yet does such a piss-poor job of doing so. Or maybe it doesn’t – maybe Barker’s aggressive sexualising of Gertrude and blatant female nudity throughout is his attempt at female empowerment. Either way, he’s not a misogynist. Barker’s obsession with women has translated into some wonderful parts in his shows, and he’s always trying to write pieces that celebrate and empower them, just through a rather perverse lens. I don’t want to circumnavigate that entirely, just sand down some of the sharper corners.
NEWS: Casting announced for Howard Barker’s Gertrude at Theatre N16
LWL Entertainment Ltd, in association with Theatre N16, are thrilled to announce the cast of Howard Barker’s Gertrude – The Cry, opening at Theatre N16 next month. The production, directed by Chris Hislop, runs 12 to 30 June 2016, with a press night on 14 June.
Why we’re all hat stands now: Having more than one job in theatre
I have no facts to back it up, but everyone seems to multi-task. I myself have held any number of different theatre jobs – I’m primarily known as a publicist these days, but I began my career as a theatre director, which I am returning to this June with a new production of Howard Barker’s Gertrude – The Cry at Theatre N16.
FEATURED SHOWS: Theatre N16 spring season includes Your Ever Loving, Gertrude, The Killing of Charles Bravo
This Spring/Summer, Theatre N16 in Balham, London, will be producing three in-house productions: in April, artistic director Jamie Eastlake will be directing Martin McNamara’s new drama about the Guildford Four Your Ever Loving, followed in May by The Killing of Charles Bravo, an exclusive site-specific performance about a real-life murder that happened in Balham, where the theatre is based. Finally, in …