This 50-minute stage version, directed with an austere grace by Tom Creed for the Gate Theatre Dublin, and presented as part of the Barbican’s Dancing Around Duchamp season celebrating the avant-garde ...

The Told By An Idiot company seems almost tailor-made for childrens’ theatre. They’ve been gleefully clowning about, often mixing the professorial with a good old-fashioned pratfall ...

London's Barbican Theatre is to stage a show which ... Lullaby, produced by the Duckie theatre company, will transform the venue's Pit theatre into a large-scale bedroom to spend the night in.

There are few absolutes left in contemporary theatre. Fourth walls have long since crumbled underfoot; site-specific and immersive theatre experiences have further done away with divides between ...

The Pit kicks off the Barbican's 2024 Theatre and Dance season with a month of visually entrancing contemporary performance from four international companies, in association with MimeLondon ...

All that is attractive to actors as well as audiences." The RSC has occupied the main house Barbican Theatre and the studio Pit Theatre since the venue opened, to the RSC's specifications ...

But this is theatre on the cheap and in the living room, with a scaffolded forest made up of brown paper trees and brown paper bedroom sheets fantasised in the privacy of McDermott's book-lined ...

Is the state of melancholy caused by too much garlic and cabbage, as the 17th-century clergyman and polymath Robert Burton wondered? Or is it a psychological state comparable with mourning, as Sigmund ...

Irish ode to the navvies who built Britain is a simple, quietly crushing tale of lost dreams The Galway company Brú Theatre has chosen a simple, devastating little tale with which to introduce ...

Toni Racklin, head of theatre and dance at the Barbican, has announced new productions for autumn ... and epic productions and celebrate the work of daring theatremakers in The Pit. “Continuing our ...

Watt was Samuel Beckett’s second novel, a bleak comedy about the search for meaning. Mostly written while he was on the run from the Gestapo, it is ecstatic in parts and preoccupied with the ...