theatre

Daisy Forster Daisy chats with the cast and creatives behind the Nottingham New Theatre’s first ever audio play, ‘Reverie‘, in the latest episode of The Curtain Call. ‘Reverie’ will be broadcast on the Nottingham New Theatre’s YouTube channel on Wednesday 19 August 2020 at 7pm.  Daisy Forster  Featured image courtesy...

“How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over?” asks the character of Cassius in William Shakespeare’s timeless "(The Fall of) Julius Caesar". The answer is for many ages, most recently by the Nottingham New Theatre for the entirely online quarantine season....

This virtual performance piece Monkey, written by Libby Horobin and Jake Levy, perfectly captures the struggles of lockdown and the desperate need for human interaction over a Zoom pub quiz. The play centres around a group of five friends trying to overcome their own boredom in a virtual quiz...

Whether it’s the raunchy kilts of Outlander or the leather armour in The Musketeers, there is always some debate about the accuracy of period costume. This is sometimes down to a lack of information about certain periods, but is also often due to the negligence of designers. There has...

Across the country it seems that more and more is opening it up. We can go to the pub, go canoeing, go to theme parks and zoos or take a trip to the cinema. But the theatre? Well... that’s a different story. ...

Daisy interviews the cast and creatives behind Nottingham New Theatre’s first show in their pioneering ‘Quarantine Season’, ‘TL;DR’.  ‘Tl;DR’ will be broadcast on the Nottingham New Theatre’s YouTube channel on Wednesday 29th July 2020 at 7pm.  Please be aware that this podcast contains brief discussions of online extremism. Daisy...

Due to the cancellation of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as a result of Covid-19, The Nottingham New Theatre will be staging their two-part play, ‘SPRING’ and ‘AWAKENING’ by Tara Anegada at the Virtual Upload Festival. I was lucky enough to watch it before its streaming on the 27th and...