The VAULT Festival returns to London’s Waterloo next week. Now in its seventh year, it is the capital’s biggest and most exciting arts and entertainment festival. Over eight weeks, the cavernous spaces under Waterloo station will be home to theatre, comedy and cabaret. This year over 400 shows will be performed. It’s a huge undertaking but Head of Programming Becky ...
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INTERVIEW: Annie Lloyd on Compass Live Art Festival
The Reviews Hub’s Rich Jevons talks to Artistic Director Annie Lloyd about this year’s Compass Live Art Festival. What are your aims and objectives with the festival? In short, our aims are to put on a ten-day festival of unique work that thousands of people can see for free. It is live art and it happens in public places and, ...
Read More »INTERVIEW: Tafadzwa Muchenje on Where We Began
The UK’s first Theatre Company of Sanctuary, Stand and Be Counted, present Where We Began, a wild and vivid vision of the future that combines storytelling, movement and live music. Five performers from across the globe challenge existing notions of ‘home’ in a multilingual celebration of personal identity. They consist of Shireen Farkhoy as The Transition Guide (Persian British Actor), ...
Read More »INTERVIEW: West End Star Oliver Savile Talks Sondheim’s Company in Aberdeen
Oliver Savile has been a busy man since his graduation from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 2010. He has graced the West End stage in The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked and Les Miserables; he has toured the UK with Cats and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and has toured the world with Mamma Mia. He sat down ...
Read More »FEATURE: Common Wealth share theatre making process
Forming part of the Bradford Literature Festival, Ruth Jepsonattends Working with Verbatim-a theatre writing masterclass. The event is run by Evie Manning and Aisha Zia, respectively Artistic Director and Writer for Common Wealth – an immersive installation theatre company who use interviews as the starting point for their creations. Before the event starts,I take the chance to chat with some ...
Read More »BLOG: Tonight’s the Night with…Cjay Ranger
Cjay Ranger is the director of the 2014 UK Tour of Rod Stewart musical Tonight’s the Night, in the first part of our exclusive weekly blogs with the team of the show, Cjay lets us take a small glimpse into her world as she prepares the show to open tonight in Manchester. After having a great experience directing the first ...
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