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Longform, thoughtful coverage of the UK's theatre landscape. Find us at exeuntmagazine.substack.com

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Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · last wk.

‘I get so irritated by this conversation of ‘art needs to be for everyone’. I’m okay with it not being for everyone. I just need it to be excellent.’ - Clayton Lee, artistic director of Fierce Festival This is a paid partnership with Fierce, so it’s totally un-paywalled and free to read!

‘Audiences can tell when venues are programming from a place of fear’

Fierce Festival’s Clayton Lee on channelling delusional hope, making Birmingham the centre of live art in the UK, and only staging work that could ‘change your life’

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Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today we have reviews of a Jamaican/Nigerian re-telling of Molière, a revival of a prison drama by Rona Munro, Josh O’Connor’s star turn in Golden Boy, and Tiago Rodrigues’s headline-grabbing Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists (which many British critics had a notably muted response to…)

Review round-up: Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists, Golden Boy, Iron, Tartuffe (Remixed)

Diana Damian Martin, Amy Borsuk, Matt Barton and Angelo Irving review some recent shows

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Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 2w ago

How can we make Shakespeare truly accessible? It’s all about how you talk to the audience, finds Kate Andrews… She visits the Globe to catch two late summer rom-coms - Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labour’s Lost - to look at how the theatre is striving to make Shakespeare accessible

Relax: it’s what Shakespeare would have wanted

How can we make Shakespeare truly accessible? It’s all about how you talk to your audience, finds Kate Andrews at two productions at the Globe

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Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it’ Ahead of their show Cold Sweat, Ben Kulvichit talks to Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment about the ‘uncanny’ possibilities of their new lip-sync technique

How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’

Ahead of their show Cold Sweat, Ben Kulvichit talks to Tim Etchells about the ‘uncanny’ possibilities their new technique

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Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 3w ago

As their new stage versions of two horror classics open on the same night, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (@mogster.bsky.social) and Stef Smith (@stefsmith.bsky.social) swap ghost stories… Frank Peschier interviews them both about their new takes on The Haunting of Hill House and The Turn of the Screw

A double haunting

As their new stage versions of two horror classics open on the same night, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Stef Smith swap ghost stories with Frank Peschier

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Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

Following their Shedinburgh takeover this summer, Ben Kulvichit dives deep into the story of Forest Fringe: how a group of young artists forged a community at the radical Forest Cafe, became the home for experimental work in Edinburgh, built a very loud buzz... and then had to grow up

Into the woods: A history of Forest Fringe

Following their Shedinburgh takeover, Ben Kulvichit hears how Forest Fringe forged a community, became the home for experimental work, built a buzz... and then had to grow up

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Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

We have a brilliant in-depth review written by Alexander Cohen (@cohengrin.bsky.social) today of Electra/Persona, an adaptation of the Ingmar Bergman film by Benedict Andrews at the National Theatre - starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss - which questions the point of art itself…

Electra/Persona: the most I have ever lost on a coin toss

‘One frame unlocks the film’s meaning. But you probably won’t like what Bergman is implying’

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Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

Rosemary Waugh on the ‘period-ish’ aesthetics of the designer’s work – and how she was inspired by her grandmother, Paula Rego Grace Smart generously shared her ‘final presentation’ books for several shows with Exeunt - so this gives you a glimpse into how a designer crafts a visual language, too

Design in focus: an appreciation of Grace Smart

Rosemary Waugh on the ‘period-ish’ aesthetics of the stage designer’s work – and how she was inspired by her grandmother, Paula Rego

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Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The very brilliant Frankie Thompson - whose show Horrible Things has been a hit of the festival - has written today’s essay, about how the fringe is also a place where her compulsive behaviours flare...

Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe

Her show is a hit of the festival – but the fringe is also a place where her compulsive behaviours flare. The clown shares how she’s facing down her shame

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Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'If we only reward art that tells us what it means, Cleansed will always be the first to be punished’ Today’s piece is a passionately argued essay by playwright Stella Green, about how Sarah Kane’s brutal play is more than just a sensationalist shocker

Why are we so afraid of Cleansed?

'If we only reward art that tells us what it means, Cleansed will always be the first to be punished': playwright Stella Green on how Sarah Kane’s play asks for our faith

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Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Adam Riches and Andrew Doherty play monstrous critics in their new fringe shows…. So of course we had to write about that Isobel Lewis interviews them about the ‘erotic obsession’ between artists and reviewers during the festival

'He’s a snob, he’s an idiot, he has no actual theatrical knowledge or insight'

Adam Riches and Andrew Doherty play monstrous critics in their new shows. Isobel Lewis dares talk to them about the 'erotic obsession' between artist and reviewer

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Marie Phillips@mariephillips.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I defy anyone to read this piece on memories of @theyardtheatre.bsky.social before its rebuild and not want to book ahead for every single production. My new favourite space.

Exeunt Magazine@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

It's the end of an era for The Yard - and saying goodbye to the Hackney Wick venue feels bittersweet for many. So we decided to immortalise it, collecting memories of amazing shows, career breaks, smoking areas, dancing dogs, spaceships, headbanging, raw fish, and meeting the love of your life