Some short answers to short questions: what makes a good fringe festival? It’s a festival where you see work you couldn’t or wouldn’t see otherwise; a festival where makers can make performance which couldn’t or wouldn’t otherwise be made. What should fringe organisers do? Create opportunities (and even incentives) for makers to take risks on …
I’ve known for a while that I write well – and, sometimes, write at all – between 7am and lunch. It doesn’t help, then, that the theatre industry prefers evenings, and the comedy industry prefers late nights. So I’m now attempting to persuade myself that – after a month of making 7pm the sensible time …
Much of my research is done online, where developing some kind of strategy for managing my time has been essential in preventing me from losing days to endless surfing.1 I’ve also felt far less guilty when I stopped assuming that everything that I read or spent time on should feed back into my current projects. …
A new nationwide campaign – backed by the arts councils of England, Wales and Scotland – is urging producers, directors and writers to strive for equal gender portrayal in theatre. I wish I knew exactly what that meant. On one hand, the campaign seems to be interested in parity of opportunity – that equal gender …