Three Kingdoms: Simon Stephens and Sebastian Nübling
Not considered suitable for under 16s or British mainstream theatre critics I found Three Kingdoms a bit of a joyride. Sit forward on your seat in the first half, enjoy […]
new writing
The No Rules Handbook for Writers
As a partner piece to my recent rant about the ‘rules’ of playwrighting, this could be interesting… it could also be the rules of how to follow the rules…but if Aleks […]
Dear Reader,
I want to write the chaos that is inside us, chaos in which a word has no meaning but a meaning has a sound and the layer of sounds is […]
Avant-garde theatre: Britain has lost what little nerve it had
There’s something appealing about the term ‘avant-garde’. Perhaps because it doesn’t evoke a particular form of work. In spite of the clichés mentioned here, for me it doesn’t conjure up eyeball […]
Transcribing the imaginary performance
Kind of a provocation (or perhaps rant) Since the sixties, the playwright Tom Stoppard has been stating the fact that: A text is an event, not a text. A script […]
Blok/Eko by Howard Barker
I saw the Wrestling School perform Howard Barker’s new play Blok/Eko last night at the Northcott theatre in Exeter. It’s exciting that the university and theatre have found a way […]