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London Fringe

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A new season of adventurous events at the Camden People’s Theatre

INTERVIEW: BRIAN LOGAN and JENNY PATON The new co-directors of the Camden People’s Theatre introduce Aleks Sierz to the wonderful world of experimental theatre which goes beyond boundaries with news of the venue’s annual Sprint Festival, and details of some other upcoming productions.

Co-authors of the powerful new play Fog speak out

INTERVIEW: TASH FAIRBANKS and TOBY WHARTON The co-authors of Fog, which is currently playing at the Finborough Theatre, tell Aleks Sierz about their unique cross-generational collaboration, which produced a powerful and disturbing drama, in which Wharton also plays the lead.

David Micklem on the BAC’s Christmas Cook-Up season

INTERVIEW: DAVID MICKLEM The Co-Artistic Director of BAC (Battersea Arts Centre), speaks to Diana Damian about this year’s Christmas Cook-Up, the venue’s plans for 2012 and some of the arts centre’s new digital projects.

Chills and thrills at the London Horror Festival

INTERVIEW: STEWART PRINGLE The co-director of the London Horror Festival (which runs at the Courtyard Theatre until 27 November) tells Diana Damian about the seasonal theme of ghosts stories, the relationship between horror and theatre, and the scope of this year’s festival as well as his future ambitions.

Lois Keidan and Gavin Butt explore Performance Matters

INTERVIEW: LOIS KEIDAN and GAVIN BUTT The Director of the Live Art Development Agency and the Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, talk to Diana Damian about Trashing Performance (25-30 October), an international programme of live art events and discussions, co-directed by Butt.

Playwright Julia Pascal dramatises a Mossad honeytrap

INTERVIEW: JULIA PASCAL The director and playwright explains to Aleks Sierz the politics and psychology behind her new play, Honeytrap (New Diorama), which tells the story of a Swedish-born mother who decides to work for Mossad, helping to avenge the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

Get in the Back of the Van’s External, a theatrical response to Internal

INTERVIEW: HESTER CHILLINGWORTH, LUCY McCORMICK and JENNIFER PICK Theatre group Get in the Back of the Van talk to Diana Damian about their piece, External (Soho Theatre and touring), which interrogates notions of authenticity and performance in an experimental way.

Sam Walters celebrates 40 years at the Orange Tree Theatre

16 September 2011

in Directors, London Fringe, Theatre buildings

INTERVIEW: SAM WALTERS The artistic director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond talks to Carole Woddis about what it feels like to be the longest-serving head of a theatre in the country, and about his exceptional venue, which began as a pub theatre and then in 1991 moved across the road into a converted church which houses the only purpose-built theatre-in-the-round in London.

Theatre Uncut revives the drama of protest

INTERVIEW: LIBBY BRODIE and HANNAH PRICE The producer and artistic director of Theatre Uncut, an ambitious nationwide project which staged several short plays as a protest against the Coalition government’s spending cut, with the flagship event being at the Southwark Theatre, London, on 16-19 March, talk to Carole Woddis. Playwrights involved include Dennis Kelly, Lucy Kirkwood, Laura Lomas, David Greig, Anders Lustgarten, Mark Ravenhill, Jack Thorne and Clara Brennan.

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