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Tanika Gupta interview with Lyn Gardner. See here.
She talks about not wanting to be boxed in and “labelled” and also suggests that companies like Tara Arts are “out of date”.
Tv pays the bills but theatre is where her heart is….
Her play on “milk bottles” (rich white women and beach boys in Caribbean) Sugar Mummies sounds […]
This is fascinating if you haven’t seen it already. It’s an accidentally recorded conversation between Bush and Blair and shows that thier “off-screen” characters are seemingly quite similar to their “on-screen”.
- “Yo Blair” indeed… The nicknames are great as well. It’s almost a little piece of theatre.
Bush: Yo Blair How are you doing?
Blair: I’m just…
Bush: […]
I learnt a lot I didn’t know about Modigliani in this article by Mary Riddell.
He had a very ugly side to his character.
One of the many points raised by Riddell was on the representation of women, which led me to try and think about the roles for women […]
Peter Gill writes very intriguingly on his view of dramaturgy and writing plays by committee. He is one of the most thoughtful writers and directors in theatre today, in my opinion, and his article is very worth reading. See link here
“…Theatre before 1979 was collaborative. It was also combative and abusive. But it was genuine. […]
Simon Reade (AD of Bristol Old Vic) argues that work life balance is possible. See here.
He was arguing against Mark Ravenhill who “mocked the notion of even aspiring to a work-life balance in the theatre on these pages. My family was appalled. “What the shopping and fucking does he know?” raged my partner of 20 […]