I saw TMLMTBGB at the Neo-Futurists on Friday night. It’s an aesthetic that’s dangerously close to my own tastes. I think it’s interesting that while the regular Chicago show has an always-changing menu of old and newly-written plays, any educational institute requesting permission for the rights to the show seems to be negotiating use of …
A problem with learning from successful theatre companies – examining both their artistic methodologies and business models – is that we can run the risk of making very narrow assumptions about how careers and livelihoods can be made from theatre. Or so says Dan Granata and me, running around the track a few blocks from …
Following neatly on from discussions in the last week of my activism and performance course, here’s some really great news (pdf): Managing Protest around Parliament :The Government proposes the repeal of sections 132-138 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. Repeal of these sections will remove the requirement to give notice of demonstrations …
As Dan says, I’m in Chicago, facing the slightly weird experience of having seen two shows in a row with non-US accents: Dolly West’s Kitchen and Top Girls by Timeline and 20% respectively. That’s not to say that the accents were poor; far from it – in contrast, a late night watching old episodes of …