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“We are a global community and one I think which is very much at a turning point right now”: Beverly Andrews on Annawon’s Song

In Features, Festivals, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Photos, Plays by Featured Content6th February 2020

Playwright Beverly Andrews tells us about how she discovered the plight of Native American servicemen, her own Native American ancestry and why she’s excited about staging her play, Annawon’s Song, at VAULT Festival. Read her interview then book your tickets!

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NEWS: Annawon’s Song explores the often unseen casualties of conflict at VAULT Festival

In Featured Shows, Festivals, London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases by Featured Content21st January 2020

Playwright Beverley Andrews shines a light on less obvious casualties of war in new play Annawon’s Song, which runs as part of VAULT Festival next month. Book your tickets now!

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‘Gender inequality is alive and well, on every level, all over the world’: Zoë Guzy-Sprague, Caley Powell & Marta da Silva tell us about The Net

In Festivals, International, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Plays, Video by Featured Content5th August 2019

‘The work we do in times of crisis as healers, storytellers and carers is lost because for years this work has never been associated with strength and power.’ Camden Fringe drama The Net explores four women on opposite sides of a divide but caught in the centre of a war. The play’s writer Zoë Guzy-Sprague and producers Caley Powell & Marta da Silva told us about its inspiration, the importance of an all-female team and more.

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WATCH: Playwright Zoë Guzy-Sprague on how all-female drama about war, The Net, became about how much we share.

In Festivals, International, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Plays, Video by Featured Content25th July 2019

“I was struck by how arbitrary the borders and walls felt”. A trip to Israel sparked Zoë Guzy-Sprague’s imagination to create drama about women on opposite sides of a border, The Net. Watch what she has to say about the show, and what the producers say about the importance of an all-female creative team, then book your tickets.

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CAMDEN FRINGE NEWS: All-female tale of war, The Net, comes to Tristan Bates Theatre

In Festivals, International, London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases by Featured Content18th July 2019

A quartet of female stories about war, US playwright Zoë Guzy-Sprague’s The Net will run for a week in London this summer as part of the Camden Fringe. Book your tickets now.

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‘No one coming out of this encounter is left unscathed’: THE CLAIM – Shoreditch Town Hall

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly19th January 2018Leave a Comment

The sickly, yellow lights of a featureless meeting room are making Serge thirsty. He just wants some water, to tell his story and get back home to Streatham.

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‘You have goat to be kidding me’: GOATS – Royal Court Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly7th December 2017Leave a Comment

You have goat to be kidding me: the Royal Court’s latest experiment is a tonally-confused take on the Syrian conflict, fake news, and livestock management.

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‘The animals are the real stars’: GOATS – Royal Court Theatre

In International, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz5th December 2017Leave a Comment

Go goats! New play about truth and lies in the Syrian conflict is upstaged by its animal performers.

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BAD ROADS – Royal Court Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly29th November 2017Leave a Comment

Whilst war rages in the Ukraine, a journalist goes to the front lines and falls in love. Girls sit on a park bench, waiting for their soldier boyfriends.

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BAD ROADS – Royal Court Theatre

In International, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz26th November 2017Leave a Comment

It is one of the strengths of Ukrainian playwright Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s savage war play, Bad Roads, translated by Sasha Dugdale and part of the Royal Court’s autumn international season, that she shows not only what war is like for women, but also its corrosive effects on masculinity.

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THIS BEAUTIFUL FUTURE – Yard Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly17th November 2017Leave a Comment

France 1944. A young French girl Elodike runs to meet her lover, a German soldier Otto. Their love is innocent and pure, the exact opposite of the world around them.

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SKIN TIGHT – Hope Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly26th October 2017Leave a Comment

Skin Tight declares that all good things must end and heartbreak is inevitable – but these are the secrets to a fulfilling life. Gary Henderson’s modern classic is reflective and moving, but the production doesn’t fully serve these ends.

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BEOWULF – Unicorn Theatre

In Children's theatre, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly19th October 2017Leave a Comment

Two walls of Marshall amps sit either side of gleaming trusses. A DJ booth manned by a black-clad figure sports a banner for a place called Heorot. Smoke seeps through vents in the floor and a woman in goth metal dress prowls the stage.

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VICTORY CONDITION – Royal Court Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly14th October 2017Leave a Comment

Imagine a world where our inner monologues are voiced at all times. Sure, it would make the world a much louder place and we’d probably always have sore throats. But think of the things we’d hear. The mundane, the extraordinary, the intimate

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BOUDICA – Shakespeare’s Globe

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly27th September 2017Leave a Comment

Some time in the past, there is an island of disparate peoples happily carrying on with their lives. Each group has its own rules, traditions and customs.

CORIOLANUS – Rose Playhouse

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly15th September 2017Leave a Comment

In Shakespeare’s battle-hardy tragedy, Caius Marcius is rebranded Coriolanus after defeating the Volscian army at Corioles.

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BLONDEL – Union Theatre

In Comedy, London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Reviews by Laura Kressly25th June 2017Leave a Comment

This 1983 show has some great numbers, but its frivolity and insubstantial book focusing on a personal journey rather than the larger political landscape is diminutive rather than powerfully sweeping.

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I AM MY OWN WIFE – New Wimbledon Studio

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly2nd June 2017Leave a Comment

Charlotte von Mahlsdorf was a collector and museum curator in East Berlin who survived WWII and the the Stasis, and murdered her abusive father when she was a teenager. More remarkably, she was transgender. I Am My Own Wife is primarily her biography and a tribute to her achievements, but also the research process by playwright Doug Wright.

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RICHARD III – Arcola Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly22nd May 2017Leave a Comment

As the audience enters, Greg Hicks sits at a pub table on an otherwise bare stage. It’s impossible not to watch him until the house lights dim, and this opening sets the tone for the two and a half hours to come.

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ONE LAST THING (FOR NOW) – Old Red Lion

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly13th March 2017Leave a Comment

Families separated by war and conflict have kept in touch one way or another for time immemorial. Recently giving way to skype, texts and emails, letter writing is now largely neglected – but surviving relics betray heartache, fear and longing.

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