The UK’s leading touring theatre companies are uniting this autumn to present Signal Fires, a nationwide project inspired by one of the original forms of theatre – storytelling around a fire.
‘This has been a moment of privilege & I think it will be the making of us’: Out of Joint on the challenges & opportunities for touring after lockdown
‘The real unknown is when people are going to want to go back into the theatres, regardless of government advice. We don’t know that. It will be a long road.’
Southall, Ladbroke Grove, Hatfield, Potters Bar: Do you remember the train crashes in The Permanent Way?
David Hare’s award-winning 2003 verbatim drama The Permanent Way, now receiving its first major revival at The Vaults, covers four major disasters that followed railway privatisation. Do you remember Southall, Ladbroke Grove, Hatfield and Potters Bar? You should. Time to get booking!
PHOTOS: What was David Hare’s thinking when writing The Permanent Way?
Do you remember what else was happening in the world in 2003? That was the year The Permanent Way premiered, ten years after The Railway Privatisation Act. It was also the year that the US, under President George Bush and supported by the UK under Prime Minister Tony Blair, invaded Iraq. What perspective could playwright David Hare offer then and now?
FEATURED SHOW: David Hare’s The Permanent Way ‘rings as true today as ever’, ★★★★ reviews are in
Critics such as the Guardian’s Michael Billington who saw the premiere of David Hare’s modern masterpiece The Permanent Way are amongst those praising its first, timely return in a limited Off-West End season. We’ve rounded up review highlights below. Time to get booking!
NEWS: Clare Foster, Lee Ingleby and Thusitha Jayasundera join the West End cast of Consent
Clare Foster, Lee Ingleby and Thusitha Jayasundera have joined Claudie Blakley, Stephen Campbell Moore, Heather Craney and Adam James in Nina Raine’s Consent at the Harold Pinter Theatre from18 May 2018.
NEWS: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day receives world premiere at Royal & Derngate, adapted by Barney Norris
Royal & Derngate’s commission of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, adapted by Barney Norris, will receive its world premiere in Northampton in February 2019 before a national Out of Joint tour.
NEWS: Consent transfers to the West End from the National Theatre
The National Theatre production of Nina Raine’s Consent will transfer to the West End, following the 2017 critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Dorfman Theatre.
NEWS: Richard Hawley, Dan Gillespie Sells & Kiss Me Kate feature in new Sheffield season
Sheffield Theatres’ new season includes Standing at the Sky’s Edge by Michael Wynne, with music and lyrics by Richard Hawley; A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Robert Hastie with music by Dan Gillespie Sells; and this year’s Christmas musical Kiss Me, Kate.
Terri’s #TimesUp vlog: Women rule in Mary Stuart & new musical Oranges & Elephants
It’s natural that your reactions to shows are filtered through the prism of the current social and political climate. And savvy theatres, of course, seek to judge the mood and programme accordingly.
Text of the Day: Rita, Sue & Bob Too
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
‘An unadulterated triumph’: RITA, SUE & BOB TOO – Royal Court Theatre
Superb performances enliven this revival of Andrea Dunbar’s 1982 classic about sex and poverty in Bradford
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NEWS: Royal Court reinstates Rita, Sue & Bob Too’s London run after outcry
The Royal Court Theatre and Out of Joint have today (13 December 2017) issues a joint press statement announcing that they have chosen not to present the current touring production of Rita, Sue and Bob Too at the Royal Court in January 2018. The London season, announced last year when Max Stafford-Clark was still Out of Joint artistic director, was due to run from 9 to 27 January 2018.
NEWS: Royal Court pulls London dates for Out of Joint revival of Rita, Sue & Bob Too
The Royal Court Theatre and Out of Joint have today (13 December 2017) issues a joint press statement announcing that they have chosen not to present the current touring production of Rita, Sue and Bob Too at the Royal Court in January 2018. The London season, announced last year when Max Stafford-Clark was still Out of Joint artistic director, was due to run from 9 to 27 January 2018.
Text of the Day: Max Stafford-Clark on British theatre
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
NEWS: Founder Max Stafford-Clark leaves Out of Joint after 23 years
After 23 years of groundbreaking work and having led its recent successful four-year funding application to the Arts Council of England Max Stafford-Clark is leaving Out of Joint, the theatre company he founded in 1993.
NEWS: Inaugural finalists & judges announced for £8k WiT Awards for new writers
Five finalists have been shortlisted for the first WiT Award, a prize created to discover and nurture new writers working in the theatre industry. The winner will be announced at a reception on 25 May. The winning writer will receive an £8,000 commission; and additionally a development relationship with Out of Joint theatre company, to include an opportunity to workshop a play with actors and a director.
CONSENT – National Theatre
Rape is such a serious social issue that it’s hardly surprising that several recent plays have tackled it. I’m thinking of Gary Owen’s Violence and Son, James Fritz’s Four Minutes Twelve Seconds and Evan Placey’s Consensual. All of these discuss, whether implicitly or explicitly, the notion of consent, which is the name of playwright and director Nina Raine’s latest drama about the subject.
How to achieve real diversity? Out of Joint sets five-year targets
Out of Joint, the new writing and touring theatre company, is committing to equal representation of female performers and writers.
NEWS: Out of Joint recruits joint artistic director to work with founder Max Stafford-Clark
Out of Joint, the new writing and touring theatre company, is seeking an experienced theatre director to work alongside founding Artistic Director Max Stafford-Clark and Producer Martin Derbyshire as the company’s joint Artistic Director.
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