Jenny Farrell discusses the prophetic politics of the Gravedigger scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which class-based justice and fundamental human equality are discussed by those whose task it... Continue reading
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Doug Nicholls introduces a great new collection of political plays. Trade union struggles over the years have inspired some of our greatest playwrights. They have also inspired... Continue reading
Carolyn Pouncy tells the story of how Russian ballet was modernised, democratised and eventually revitalised by the 1917 Russian Revolution. Ask people unfamiliar with dance history where... Continue reading
Sophie Coudray introduces Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. This paper aims to clarify the original project of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, which is a... Continue reading
Andrew Warburton reviews Cubanacan, the first new Cuban opera in almost 50 years. When Cubanacan: A Revolution of Forms received its world premiere at the Havana Biennale... Continue reading
Professor Gabriel Egan concludes his series on Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s fellow playwright Ben Jonson paid him a compliment that has come to haunt the study of plays from... Continue reading
Gordon Parsons reviews Joe Kelleher’s book on theatre and politics. W. H. Auden’s insisted that all his poetry put together had not saved a single Jew, and... Continue reading
In Part Two of his series, Professor Gabriel Egan considers how the sense of words and phrases shifts across time and cultures, and how we can still... Continue reading
This month marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Professor Gabriel Egan, in the first of a series of articles, discusses how his dramas imagine and enact different... Continue reading
This article, covering the history, politics and practice of Britain’s foremost poitical theatre company, is a collective work-in-progress by members of the company. Banner Theatre is a... Continue reading
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