Tom Scutt’s ski-slope roof of waving corn, on which Raphael Papo’s fiddler has his precariously symbolic base, has sadly been ...

Krapp’s Last Tape, Barbican Pit: A superbly sour performance from Stephen Rea – but it lacks depth Exhaustion, regret, weary resignation: Rea hits every note.

Even theatre companies and sportspeople have had to flee the ... The pulsating rhythms of the music played by DJ Blanka Barbara greet us as we enter the Barbican Pit. One of the crew gives each of us ...

Belarus Free Theatre marks its 20th anniversary with this exhilarating sports biography Marking 20 years of intrepid, urgent work from dissident performance collective Belarus Free Theatre ...

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 ...

The Pit is our unique studio space that brings audiences closer ... Thank you for joining us and we hope you enjoy the show. Toni Racklin, Barbican Head of Theatre & Dance In The Acts, we are bringing ...

Finn Beames is the writer, composer and director—his first work since his company (collaborators) won the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2024, and this work, I read, is ...

the Oxford Trust Samuel Beckett Prize has been giving experimental theatre makers a leg up for two decades now, with each year’s winner awarded a run at the Barbican’s smaller Pit theatre for ...

which supports the work of artists making experimental new theatre. The prize is a two-week run in the Barbican Centre’s The Pit venue, as part of the centre’s 2024 autumn programme.

The Royal Shakespeare Company stages its London seasons here, alongside the annual BITE programme (Barbican International Theatre Events ... takes over the The Pit at the Barbican for ten ...

This theatre will now be repositioned in an irregular shaped space under the Barbican Theatre. Its Poe-sounding name, The Pit, is entirely appropriate to its almost secret location and black decor, ...

theatre sets and painted maps, though the positioning of the orchestra pit seems unnecessarily perilous. The farcical play-within-a-play plot satirizes and celebrates the art of theatre as well ...