Jan 18, 2024
For Christmas 2023, there were two new stage adaptations of stories by Roald Dahl in the UK: The Witches at the National Theatre in London and The Enormous Crocodile at Leeds Playhouse, the first to be co-produced by the Roald Dahl Story Company.
BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to the company’s Artistic Director of...
Jan 11, 2024
Pilot Theatre, a York-based touring company that creates theatre for young people is to tour England in February and March 2024 with an adaptation of David Almond’s book A Song for Ella Grey, written by Zoe Cooper and directed by Pilot’s Artistic Director, Esther Richardson.
BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to...
Dec 20, 2023
Physical theatre company Gecko, based in Ipswich, was founded in 2001 by Amit Lahav, who is still its Artistic Director.
The company’s latest production, Kin, toured the UK in 2023 and will be at the National Theatre in London in January 2024.
Amit spoke to BTG Editor David Chadderton about the origins of the...
Nov 17, 2023
Mark Thomas is a stand-up comic whose work for stage and TV has frequently crossed over into theatre and into political activism, in some cases resulting in changes in the law.
He is currently performing a show he hasn’t written himself for the first time, England & Son by award-winning playwright Ed Edwards.
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Oct 17, 2023
The Prince of Egypt, the DreamWorks animated film from 1998, was brought to the West End stage in 2020 at the Dominion Theatre but had to take a break due to the COVID lockdown. It completed its run the following year when it was filmed for a cinema release.
BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to the show’s composer...