Kevin Elyot’s ‘Coming Clean’ has returned to Trafalgar Studios for a limited one-month run, after the production – by director Adam Spreadbury-Maher – ran in early 2019 to great success. […]
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Category: Career Spotlight
Queerness, Brooklynese, and theatre on a budget: an interview with Hannah Bristow and Laurie Ogden
On Saturday, I was lucky enough to interview actors Laurie Ogden and Hannah Bristow, who are currently playing teenage sweethearts Connie and Francesca in the European premiere of Napoli, Brooklyn […]
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BEHIND THE MAGIC: “I like theatres because they’re a bit like churches – they give sanctuary”
I meet Felix Dunning, Company Stage Manager (CSM) of the touring production Caroline’s Kitchen, immediately after the Saturday matinee in Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre. He is full of energy and begins showing me around the set straight away, whilst simultaneously clearing the stage after a particularly chaotic final scene.
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BEHIND THE MAGIC: “there’s a lot of care about the hair”
This week Claudia Graham was fortunate enough to speak with Rick Strickland, Hair and Make-up Head of Department at ‘MAMMA MIA!’, about the world of backstage beauty.
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BEHIND THE MAGIC: “Stage management tend to be the fairies of production”
~An Interview with Stage Manager, Jen Raith [Bat Out of Hell]~ On a cold and rainy Saturday morning, I show up wet-haired at the stage door of the Dominion Theatre, […]
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Are Universities Still Places of Learning?
Naina Bhardwaj talks about universities and whether or not they are genuine centres of learning in the modern world.
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