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Week three: What inspired Vibrant Festival playwrights Abigail Andjel, Athena Stevens & Hannah Morley?

In Features, Festivals, International, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Plays, Sticky by Featured Content27th June 2019

This year’s Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights concludes in Week Three, featuring three new plays that shine a light on challenges in modern Britain care of ETPEP Award winner Abigail Andjel, Olivier Award nominee Athena Stevens and Hannah Morley. We caught up with each of them in the last of our three-part festival interview series. Time to get booking!

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Week two: What inspired Vibrant Festival playwrights Colleen Murphy, Sharmila Chauhan & Albert Belz?

In Features, Festivals, International, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Plays by Featured Content20th June 2019

Week Two of this year’s Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, features new plays set in Quebec, New Zealand and the bedroom, care of Colleen Murphy, Albert Belz and Sharmila Chauhan. We found out more about each of them in the second of our three-part festival interview series. Time to get booking!

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Week one: What inspired Vibrant Festival playwrights Einat Weizman, Stewart Pringle & Melis Aker?

In Features, Festivals, International, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Plays by Featured Content12th June 2019

Week One of this year’s Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, features new plays set in Israel, Turkey and your local pub, care of Einat Weizman (and Palestinian political prisoners), Melis Aker and Stewart Pringle. We caught up with each of them in the first of our three-part festival interview series. Time to get booking!

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NEWS: Vibrant Festival returns for 11th year with nine new plays at Finborough Theatre

In Festivals, London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Sticky by Featured Content11th June 2019

Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, the Finborough Theatre’s annual explosion of new writing, returns this week for its eleventh consecutive year, presenting nine new plays on Sundays, Mondays and Thursday from 16 June to 4 July 2019.

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‘Makes for a really compelling play’: MASTERPIECES – Finborough Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz4th May 2018Leave a Comment

This revival of Sarah Daniels’ 1983 feminist classic, Masterpieces, is Neil McPherson’s latest good idea. It’s a play that is often seen, in textbooks, as typical of a militant femintern style of theatre-making so, in the #MeToo moment, it now acquires a renewed relevance.

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‘A meaningful but messy look at women in society’: MASTERPIECES – Finborough Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Shanine Salmon29th April 2018Leave a Comment

Not even an authentic and stylised production and strong performances can cover up a meaningful but messy look at women in society. With some editing, Masterpieces could be improved immensely.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Just to Get Married at the Finborough Theatre

In Features, London theatre, Native, News, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon4th August 2017Leave a Comment

The Finborough Theatre is currently showing the first London production of Cicely Hamilton’s play in 100 years and is directed by Melissa Dunne. Here’s what critics have been saying about it.

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