Nirbhaya, written and directed by Yael Farber (Mies Julie) and premiered in Edinburgh this past summer, will travel to Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Calcutta if the producers can raise £500,000 by December.
Category: theatre
Inside The Olivier Theatre’s Weird And Wonderful Revolving Machine
The National Theatre venue’s “drum revolve is an extraordinary, five-storey, computer-operated double lift contraption that enables the stage to be lowered through the floor and spun around. And, because it’s split into two, operators can swap one half for the other without, in theory, the audience suspecting a thing.” Nina Caplan goes backstage “to see the beast in its lair.”
When Audience Participation In A Play Does And Doesn’t Work
Lyn Gardner: “Last Saturday afternoon in Newcastle, I watched a very good actor struggle and work incredibly hard to get six people up on stage during Theatre O’s take on The Secret Agent …[The following night] it was easier getting audience members to participate in Piff the Magic Dragon …even though it was a potentially far more daunting situation.”
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Record Year
“Its income rose to £62.6m in 2012-13 compared to £50.1m a year earlier, while box office receipts increased by about 75% from £18.1m to £31.6m.”
Running Two Marathons At Once, Or The Theatrical Equivalent Thereof
Lisa Kron wrote the book and lyrics for the musical “Fun Home” at the Public Theater – and at the same time started rehearsals for a Brecht play opening down the hall.
College Is More And More Expensive. Should *Anyone* Major In Theatre?
“Actors tend to live in fund-sucking cities and work low-paying survival jobs that they can cancel last minute for an audition or a gig.”
Stop Talking About ‘Innovation,’ And Start Giving Artists Money
“Here’s how the siren call of innovation sounds from our church: It signals another incursion on the arts by corporate culture, directive funders, and those who have drunk the Kool-Aid of high-tech hip and devotional entrepreneurism. It announces the rise of a cult of consultancy.”
Royal Shakespeare Company Posts 75 Percent Gain In Box Office In 2012/13
“RSC productions played to 1.5 million worldwide in 2012/13, generating a total box office of £31.6 million, up from £18.1 million in 2011/12 (which was itself up from £8.3 million in 2010/11 when the RSC’s Stratford theatres were running a reduced operation). The improved box office has helped the RSC increase its percentage of self generated income to 73% – from 67% in 2011/12 and 52% in 2010/11.”
UK National Youth Theatre Head Says Drama School Is A Waste Of Money
“Formal three-year drama school courses are a waste of time and money for ‘the majority of actors’, according to the artistic director of the UK’s leading youth theatre.”
Is Beverly Hills’s New Arts Center Snubbing L.A. Actors?
Southern California casting directors are calling for a boycott of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Their beef is that the Wallis is only casting one show in-house this season, and for that one they hired a New York casting director. The SoCal theater community is worrying that the Wallis may become just one more venue for touring productions.