Exhausting but productive weekend: two Penny Dreadful shows at Greenwich, and a very quick visit to the Hide and Seek festival on the south bank. A proper update to follow, but here are some production photos for Aeneas Faversham Forever taken by our lighting designer and technical director, Neil Hobbs. For gluttons, my grainy phonecam …
Two recommendations for comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe festival: 1. Firmly at the top of my list is the Pajama Men – Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez – who are back at the Fringe after a year’s break. Go and see them. I first saw them in the aircraft-hangar of the George Square Theatre back …
I think have to disagree with Lyn Gardner‘s assessment that post-’68 political and radical theatre is undocumented and in danger of being forgotten – not least because the majority of companies she references (Red Ladder, Joint Stock, Monstrous Regiment, Inter-Action and Welfare State) turned up on the course I taught at Glasgow University last semester. …
The edfringe.com website is dead in the water, which can only mean one thing: tickets for the Fringe have gone on sale. EDIT: It’s working now. A temporary problem with the trucks in the tubes, no doubt.