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17 August 2021
£750m COVID insurance scheme announced for festivals and live events - Is it too late?
Although a welcome aid for the music industry, many believe that the help has come after the damage has already been inflicted.
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16 August 2021
Through the Ages: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The paradox of the aristocrats and the Restoration theatre
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13 August 2021
Review: Warhol: Bullet Karma
A showcase of skilled impersonations and an in-depth knowledge of artist Andy Warhol’s life.
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13 August 2021
Review: A Day at the Beach
This dystopian comedy play just about manages to make up for its chaotic storyline with funny one-liners and interesting dialogic themes.
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13 August 2021
Review: Black is the Color of my Voice
Following the history of celebrated musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone, Apphia Campbell mesmerizes the audience as she guides them through a life filled with love, courage, ambition and tragedy.
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13 August 2021
Review: Spit Me Out
A candid, revealing and honest play about four friends having a dinner party, trying to right the wrongs of years of miseducation on sexual abuse.
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9 August 2021 – 31 August 2021
Tamasha Theatre - Tamasha Playwrights programme
Tamasha Playwrights, founded by Artistic Director Fin Kennedy in 2014, is their flagship programme, a writer-led collective of emerging playwrights from global majority backgrounds. The programme has gone from strength to strength, with a strong track record of launching careers.
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2 August 2021
Through the Ages: The Ban of Music and Theatre
The consequences of Puritan England over music and theatre.
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28 July 2021
Annie Get Your Gun review
After the fabulous success of ‘Songs Under The Stars’ last year, new theatre company, Betley Court Farm Productions, came back with a bang with their showing of the fantastic musical: Annie Get Your Gun.
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22 July 2021
Manchester International Festival: Download and Run Zoom
When travel restrictions forced Lucinda Childs to postpone a project with the Ballet National de Marseille, the American choreographer began meeting the Ballet’s Artistic Directors – LA(HORDE) – via Zoom.
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16 July 2021
Notes on Grief
An affecting exploration of loss and remembrance, Notes on Grief adapts Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s original essay for the stage at this year’s Manchester International Festival.
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16 July 2021
Review: This Camera is Broken
Brimming with concentrated emotion and a dash of ambiguity, This Camera is Broken depicts a conversation between a veteran director and her younger self.
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16 July 2021
Through the Ages: The First Written Music
What you probably didn’t realise about the Middle Ages…
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12 July 2021
Brighton Fringe Review: SWAN
A quasi-French fever dream bound up in swans, mime, and a spectacular nude finish. C’est trés bien!
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12 July 2021
The hunger for space, life, laughter, sex: Interview with Courtney Buchner
"Women often stay small because... taking up space can be horrifically scary and it’s not just a one-time decision. We have to make that decision every time we step into a business meeting, an appointment, a restaurant, our bedrooms."
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9 July 2021
The Macbeth Curse Review - By Ervin
This is my review of The Macbeth Curse by Prime Theatre
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9 July 2021 – 1 August 2021
Online Emerging Artist Residency with FACT Liverpool
FACT is inviting artists living or working in the North of England to create new digital work in the latest round of its FACT Together commissioning scheme. FACT Together will offer 4 early-career artists a grant of £2500 each plus a production budget of £1500 to develop an idea that will be presented online.
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7 April 2021 – 12 July 2021
The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2021
The aim of the Prize is to celebrate and support women playwrights and to discover the best new work from writers at all levels of experience.