Exeunt Magazine
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Longform, thoughtful coverage of the UK's theatre landscape. Find us at exeuntmagazine.substack.com
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Theatre bluesky - have you got an Edinburgh show to promote, or a season to announce? You can now advertise with Exeunt! All the info on how to speak directly to a theatre-loving, super-engaged audience is over on our Substack - or drop us an email âŹď¸ info, examples, and pricing in the link below!
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In conversation with Laurie Ogden, Flo O'Mahony, Artistic Director of Zoo Co and sister to Rachel O'Mahony, explains the journey of bringing Perfect Show for Rachel back for a UK tour: following Rachel's leadership while the show grows and changes, with those involved changing with it!
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How my learning disabled sister made the perfect show
As she revisits Perfect Show for Rachel, Flo O'Mahony reflects on the assumptions made about the tastes and decision-making capacity of learning disabled people
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/how-my-learning-disabled-sister-made
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What's going on with studio theatres? Since the pandemic, smaller secondary spaces have quietly declined â with dire consequences for emerging artists. Could some new openings and different approaches help buck the trend, asks
@hollywilliams.bsky.social
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What's going on with studio theatres?
Since the pandemic, smaller secondary spaces have quietly declined â with dire consequences for emerging artists. Can some new openings buck the trend?
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/whats-going-on-with-studio-theatres
5 days ago
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âWe want folk culture and community and nature â but only bits of itâ Alice Saville (
@alicesaville.bsky.social
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Magic, nature and the mid-career female artist
Bryony Kimmings' Bog Witch, and other searches for meaning in the countryside
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/magic-nature-and-the-mid-career-female
8 days ago
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We went to see some plays, had some thoughts about them!
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Review round-up: The Unbelievers, Gwenda's Garage, Orphans, Mary Page Marlowe
We went to the theatre. We thought about what we saw.
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/review-round-up-the-unbelievers-gwendas
12 days ago
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Marina Abramovicâs latest work is the four-hour Balkan Erotic Epic - but is it really erotic? Epic? Balkan?! We discuss!
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Erotic Epic Discussion
On the heft, the nudity, and the lack of bodily diversity in Marina AbramoviÄâs latest
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/erotic-epic-discussion
15 days ago
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Exeunt headed to The Royal Albert Hall to review the spectacle and the theatre of the greatest Sumo tournament on earth...
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Wrestling with it
As the Grand Sumo Tournament hits London, Emily Jupp finds theatre in its rituals
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/wrestling-with-it
19 days ago
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Sorry for the delay this week, but we think it was the worth the wait: we're serving up a brand new, semi-regular series, where Frank Peschier compares stage and screen musicals! First up: the legendary 1972 movie The Harder They Comes and Suzan-Lori Parks stage musical version
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Frank Goes to Hollywood: The Harder They Come
In a new series, Frank Peschier compares the movie and the stage show
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frank-goes-to-hollywood-the-harder
21 days ago
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From eating on stage to compulsory standing ovations to invisible animals⌠Exeunt writers on their pettiest theatre gripes
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Exeuntâs (Mostly) Irrational Theatre Dislikes
A piece from the archive...
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntmagazine/p/exeunts-mostly-irrational-theatre?r=4lt9u6&utm_medium=ios
26 days ago
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Lou Doyle reports from inside the wonderful world of experimental cabaret...
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Late nights, freaky art, flaming weirdos: welcome to experimental cabaret
Grassroots cabaret is providing space for catharsis and rage, connection and joy - and enjoying a spike in popularity
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/late-nights-freaky-art-flaming-weirdos
29 days ago
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The review as fanfic? A review following the evolution of the novel form? A reviewer trapped inside a play, being chased around by Ĺukasz TwarkowskiâŚ? It must be an Exeunt round-up!
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Review round-up: Born With Teeth, Romans, ROHTKO, The Weir
Exeunt writers get trapped inside some recent plays
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/review-round-up-born-with-teeth-romans
about 1 month ago
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Angharad Jones, the director of (the) Woman, has written us a brilliantly honest piece about how the theatre industry treats mothers â and how complicit she can feel, too, as a director
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'We're told we can have it all â and we've bought into it, like a fucked-up myth'
Angharad Jones gets honest about how the theatre industry treats mothers â and how complicit she can feel, as a director
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/were-told-we-can-have-it-all-and
about 1 month ago
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Chris Goode's voice dominated the theatre blogging culture of the 2010s.
@alicesaville.bsky.social
reflects on how the abusive theatremaker used his writings to hide in plain sight Alice points to the need for greater transparency in the theatre industry. In that spirit, this post is free to read
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Chris Goode told the truth about who he was. How did we fail to see it?
Goode's voice dominated the theatre blogging culture of the 2010s. Alice Saville reflects on how the abusive theatremaker used his writings to hide in plain sight
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/chris-goode-told-the-truth-about
about 1 month ago
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Why do we interview artists before their shows open - rather than after, when we can really get stuck into it? In this first of a new series,
@hollywilliams.bsky.social
interviews Emily Burns on the inspiration and intentions behind her âscrapbookedâ new production of Measure for Measure...
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Post-show discussion: Emily Burns on Measure for Measure
The director on cutting Shakespeare's 'unfunny' jokes about sex workers, adding in quotes from Mary Queen of Scots, and being inspired by MAGA wives
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/post-show-discussion-emily-burns
about 1 month ago
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As a special treat - and to a say a big thank you / diolch yn fawr iawn to everyone who contributed to this list of brilliant Welsh plays - today's piece is paywall-free and free to read!
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The best Welsh plays: an alternative syllabus
There's never been a Welsh play as a GCSE set text. Gary Owen, Seiriol Davies, Owen Sheers, Francesca Goodridge, Tim Price and more have some suggestions....
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/the-best-welsh-plays-an-alternative
about 2 months ago
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After hit TV and film versions of David Nicholls' books, now Starter for Ten and One Day are getting the musical treatment. Isobel Lewis on how it all translates...
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Your starter for ten: Who is our most adaptable writer and why is it David Nicholls?
After hit TV and film versions of his books, now Starter for Ten and One Day are getting the musical treatment
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/your-starter-for-ten-who-is-our-most
about 2 months ago
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A new British musical, Black Power Desk, honours the 'untold stories' of the UK's revolutionaries Angelo Irving talks to Urielle Klein-Mekongo and Gail Babb about why a show about 1970s activism feels so relevant today
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A love letter to the British Black Power movement
Black Power Desk honours the 'untold stories' of the UK's revolutionaries
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-the-british-black
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Reviewed Manchesterâs Darkfield triple bill; Iâm yet to see the light with their shows
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As three Darkfield shows open in containers around Manchester, Matt Barton asks if they make for transporting theatre - or just a thrill ride?
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What we see in the dark
As three Darkfield shows open around Manchester, Matt Barton asks if they make for transporting theatre â or just a thrill ride?
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntmagazine/p/what-we-see-in-the-dark?r=4lt9u6&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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'In a way, this play has made me feel more Englishâ Hailey Bachrach (
@bachrach.bsky.social
) chats with Philip Arditti and Nina Bowers about revisiting their dark satire English King Killing Foreigners in a new political era
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'It's a colonial invasion narrative': How Henry V inspired English Kings Killing Foreigners
In 2019, Philip Arditti and Nina Bowers took aim at both the nationalism of Shakespeare's play and the rise of 'woke'. But have those targets shifted?
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/its-a-colonial-invasion-narrative
2 months ago
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We asked d/Deaf actors and BSL interpreters to tell us all about how they use sign language on stage. Whatâs it like, translating written English to BSL? Or trying to sign for multiple characters at once? Or interpreting the dense poetry of Shakespeare, or how a song is being sung in a musical?
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BSL on stage: 'It gives me the ability to express so many more things'
From signing Shakespeare to rapping in a musical: how sign language can light up our stages
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/bsl-on-stage-it-gives-me-the-ability
2 months ago
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What theatre should you watch this autumn? THIS LOT! Not to toot our own horn, but Exeunt writers do write about the really interesting work happening all around the country in these pieces - going beyond the same ten shows that are in your average broadsheet round-upsâŚ
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Exeunt recommends... the best autumn theatre
Plus: reviews round-ups and a spotlight on gobscure
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn
2 months ago
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A collab today, between Exeunt and Queer Theatre Archive - Kate Wyver interviews Alastair Curtis about The AIDS Plays Project, re-staging shows written by playwrights who died of AIDS
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A lost generation, found onstage
In both Queer Theatre Archive and Exeunt today: how The AIDS Plays Project is expanding the queer canon
https://substack.com/home/post/p-172178754
2 months ago
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The best theatre bars! As chosen by Exeunt editor
@hollywilliams.bsky.social
what do you think of the choices? Where did we miss? Whereâs overrated or underrated? What theatre bar does the best cocktail or nicest glass of wine?
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The ten best theatre bars
A subjective list of where to enjoy interval drinks and post-show chat
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntmagazine/p/the-ten-best-theatre-bars?r=4lt9u6&utm_medium=ios
2 months ago
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And thatâs all folks! Our coverage of Edinburgh fringe festival 2025 is officially DONE - with two final excellent reviews from
@alicesaville.bsky.social
- of Wild Thing! and Jeezus! (exclamation marks: the artistsâ own) It was a blast. Thanks for following along with us! Till next yearâŚ
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Edinburgh festival fringe reviews 2025
All our reviews, as we get 'em
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/edinburgh-festival-fringe-reviews
3 months ago
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Author Daisy Buchanan writes about how she loves theatre, but can struggle as an autistic woman with noisy audiences... What do you think of her suggestion that theatres might offer 'ultra focused' as well as 'relaxed' shows - to cater for a wider range of audience needs?
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'Relaxed' performances are great - why can't we have 'ultra focused' ones too?
Daisy Buchanan loves theatre. But as an autistic woman, she finds the sensory overload of a noisy audience difficult
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/relaxed-performances-are-great-why
3 months ago
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Isobel Lewis has been going to Giffords Circus every year with her family since she was a child⌠she writes about their new show Laguna Bay, and explores the special magic of this travelling circus
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Growing up with Giffords Circus
It may now be beloved by a certain celeby Cotswold crowd - but Isobel Lewis finds rough magic beyond the village green cosplay
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/growing-up-with-giffords-circus
3 months ago
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A reminder that, in the last week of the fringe, we're still updating our Edinburgh coverage with reviews by Ben Kulvichit, Holly Williams, Laura Horton, and Catherine Love Drop by for fresh thoughts on: Windblown - Jonah Non Grata - DREAMGIRL - Up Your Ass - These Mechanisms - Aether - Ozzy Algar
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Edinburgh festival fringe reviews 2025
All our reviews, as we get 'em
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/edinburgh-festival-fringe-reviews
3 months ago
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As her book on feminist forms is published, Hannah Greenstreet (
@hgreenstreet1.bsky.social
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Ten years of feminist theatre in ten plays
Hannah Greenstreet on a decade of absolute bangers
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/ten-years-of-feminist-theatre-in
3 months ago
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Burlesque the Musical has been the most headline-grabbing show of the summer⌠but what do real burlesque performers make of it, and of the actual scene in the UK?
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Burlesque performers tell us what they think of Burlesque the Musical
Holli Mae Johnson, Sadie Sinner, Mimi Sugarpill, and Jessabelle Thunder discuss what pop culture and the media get wrong about their art form
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntmagazine/p/burlesque-performers-tell-us-what?r=4lt9u6&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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You want Edinburgh fringe reviews? We've got reviews! Right this way for the latest Exeunt write-ups of PALDEM - PAINKILLERS - THE HORSE OF JENIN - PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD - TOM AT THE FARM - BRAINSLUTS
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Edinburgh festival fringe reviews 2025
All our reviews, as we get 'em
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/edinburgh-festival-fringe-reviews
3 months ago
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"I was invited by a producer to sit down with a performer and told, 'They are just going to shout at you and call you a c**t, just let them get it out'" "The performer and director of a show were both sleeping with a critic⌠and were so angry when their show wasnât well receivedâ
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What it's really like to be a theatre PR
Laura Horton worked as a PR for 15 years before becoming a writer. She shares the good, the bad, and the very ugly behaviour PRs face
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/what-its-really-like-to-be-a-theatre
3 months ago
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Today's newsletter is our first roundup from the Edinburgh fringe - featuring reviews of OHIO, CONSUMED, RED LIKE FRUIT, and FUSELAGE
exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/edinburgh-...
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Edinburgh round-up: Ohio, Consumed, Red Like Fruit, Fuselage
Reviews of some shows at the fringe
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/edinburgh-round-up-ohio-consumed
3 months ago
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Our coverage of the Edinburgh fringe is now LIVE ! Check out our reviews for RED LIKE FRUIT, OHIO and FUSELAGE - and keep checking back, as we'll be updating this post on Substack with more reviews throughout August... (they won't all be written by women called Holly, promise)
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Edinburgh festival fringe reviews 2025
All our reviews, as we get 'em
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/edinburgh-festival-fringe-reviews
3 months ago
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Our Friday read for paid subscribers is the inimitable Maddy Costa, writing about Emma Frankland's (@notyetarobot) new show No Apologies, a 'radical misremembering' of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged Concert, which begins by asking what if Kurt Cobain was a trans woman?
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What if Kurt Cobain was a trans woman?
Emma Frankland on why her 'radical misremembering' of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged concert is really a call for community and resistance
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/what-if-kurt-cobain-was-a-trans-woman
3 months ago
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By popular demand⌠weâre going to be running reviews round-ups in Exeunt on a semi-regular basis! First up, Frey Kwa Hawking, Alexander Cohen, Ben Kulvichit, and Holly Williams share their thoughts
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Review round-up: 4.48 Psychosis, Inter Alia, Atmospheric Forces, The Winter's Tale
Exeunt writers think about some recent shows
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/review-round-up-448-psychosis-inter
4 months ago
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Annnd also in todayâs piece - weâre delighted that Exeunt is once more hosting Natasha Tripneyâs annual big fringe poemâŚ. Entirely made up of snippets from the official Edinburgh fringe programme
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On Tuesday, we had a guide to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where artists recommended other artists... and today, Exeunt writers round up their top tips for the best shows at the fringe Hope it helps!
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Exeunt recommends... shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025!
Plus: the return of Natasha Tripney's annual big fringe poem
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-shows-at-the-edinburgh
4 months ago
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Itâs that time again! The Edinburgh fringe is almost upon on⌠To help you navigate the 3000 shows on offer, we asked artists at the fringe to recommend the shows theyâre most looking forward to
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Artists rec each other at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
We did not allow them to pick their own shows.
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntmagazine/p/artists-rec-each-other-at-the-edinburgh?r=4lt9u6&utm_medium=ios
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15 years ago, Natasha Tripney had a transformative experience dancing naked on stage in Nic Green's Trilogy. But can stage nudity also be exploitative or gratuitous? She explores how naked bodies are used, and read, across British and European theatre
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Empowering or exposing: what's the point of nudity on stage?
15 years since stripping off for Nic Green's Trilogy, Natasha Tripney considers the politics of the naked body in British and in European theatre
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/empowering-or-exposing-whats-the
4 months ago
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Theatre bluesky - have you got an Edinburgh show to promote, or a season to announce? You can now advertise with Exeunt! All the info on how to speak directly to a theatre-loving, super-engaged audience is over on our Substack - or drop us an email âŹď¸ info, examples, and pricing in the link below!
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Advertise with Exeunt
Exeunt is a leading publication for independent, inventive, long-form writing about theatre. Since being established in 2011, the digital magazine has attracted a loyal following among audiences and i...
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/advertise-with-exeunt
4 months ago
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In the latest in her series on theatre designers, Rosemary Waugh takes a deep-dive into the "undone-ness" of Rosanna Vize's work - from Andrew Scott's rehearsal-room Vanya to a Winter's Tale partly set in a video game...
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Design in focus: an appreciation of Rosanna Vize
Or, when âundoneâ is very much âdoneâ
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/design-in-focus-an-appreciation-of-5f9
4 months ago
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In todayâs piece: an interview with the real-life couple behind
@awkwardprods.co.uk
âs pop culture hits - and why theyâre getting married on stage at the Edinburgh fringe
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Queer joy, or 'brainrot' theatre? The rise and rise of pop-culture parody
Linus Karp and Joseph Martin on their viral hits about Princess Diana and Gwyneth Paltrow... and why they're getting married onstage
https://open.substack.com/pub/exeuntmagazine/p/queer-joy-or-brainrot-theatre-the?r=4lt9u6&utm_medium=ios
4 months ago
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Theatre bluesky - have you got an Edinburgh show to promote, or a season to announce? You can now advertise with Exeunt! All the info on how to speak directly to a theatre-loving, super-engaged audience is over on our Substack - or drop us an email âŹď¸ (a link with the details, and a dummy ad)
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Advertise with Exeunt
Exeunt is a leading publication for independent, inventive, long-form writing about theatre. Since being established in 2011, the digital magazine has attracted a loyal following among audiences and i...
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/advertise-with-exeunt
4 months ago
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"Like the characters on stage, I yearn for touch. I feel their yearning." Editor Holly Williams (
@hollywilliams.bsky.social
) follows the thread of touch in theatre, from clothes to what's under them, across three very different productions. Free for all to read now, subscribe today!
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Reach out and touch it
Theatre can be a sensual thing - but what role does touch play in an often arm's length art form? Holly Williams explores three tantalising new shows
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/reach-out-and-touch-it?r=18rxw
4 months ago
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"The worst movie does not even come close to the worst piece of theatre, the worst painting⌠thereâs nothing worse than bad theatre.â As Nature Theater of Oklahoma, finally make their London debut with No President, Maddy Costa chats with them about their shape-shifting, messy, irreverent work
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'It's offensive to everybody'
Nature Theater of Oklahoma finally hit London - with a show called No President that processes Trump via cannibalism, penis costumes, and The Nutcracker...
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/its-offensive-to-everybody
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Caryl Churchill recently broke ties with the Donmar Warehouse in protest at its ongoing relationship with Barclays. But what role should theatre-makers take in the sponsorship debate? Maddy Costa collects responses from across the industry, to open up discussion of an uncomfortable issue...
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To boycott, or not to boycott?
What role should theatre-makers take in the sponsorship debate? A group response, and an invitation to discuss
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/to-boycott-or-not-to-boycott
4 months ago
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Today, Exeunt hosts a new short film from written by Chris Thorpe, co-starring Tamara Lawrance, and directed by Atri Banerjee Plus, written reflections from Chris and Atri on international work, international perspectives, and how we might look outwards...
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Atri Banerjee and Chris Thorpe are in This Room, Now
Exeunt exclusively hosts a short film, responding to the Gateâs mission to âTell stories from beyond our bordersâ
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/atri-banerjee-and-chris-thorpe-are
5 months ago
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Two musical versions of F Scott Fitzgeraldâs work are on in the West End - but The Great Gatsby has had a critical mauling, while The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a critical darling⌠So, in an era of endlessly rehashing musicals, can they shed light on what makes an adaption really work?
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What the curious case of two Fitzgerald musicals tells us
Can The Great Gatsby and Benjamin Button shed light on what makes a page-to-stage adaption fly or flop?
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/what-the-curious-case-of-two-fitzgerald
5 months ago
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From vomiting black sludge to being hosed down in your underwear, being dumped at press drinks or having your review eviscerated by the director⌠Exeunt writer share their least glamorous moments as a critic Itâs catharsis, ok?
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The Sordid Life of Theatre Critics
Or, when bad things happen to good critics
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/the-sordid-life-of-theatre-critics
5 months ago
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She's actually in The Room Where It Happens.
@anyaryan.bsky.social
takes her musical-loving sister and musical-sceptic boyfriend to Soho's new bar, where the waiters belt it out, the cocktails are named after divas, and the food is... there. Is this the place for us?
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One drink more! Inside Soho's musical theatre bar
The Room Where it Happens features singalongs and warbling waiting staff... but are they living the dream or trapped in a living nightmare?
https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/one-drink-more-inside-sohos-musical?r=18rxw
5 months ago
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