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"Cottage offers a poignant interrogation a forgotten part of gay history" Lola Stakenburg enjoys Sightline Theatre Company's 'Cottage' by Ben Willows for DDF 2022.

"The play approaches the minutiae of the human heart with such delicacy and warmth that it is impossible not to fall in love with the characters and the play": Many of our contributors write about some of their favourite plays in last week's print edition of '10 plays to see before you die'.

COVID forced all of us to change our plans. For me, I had several plays that I had been cast in or had written, intended to be performed live, that were shelved. Despite this, theatre continued, through radio plays and Zoom. While I loved seeing this creativity thrive, there were a few Zoom plays that I thought just didn’t translate to its new platform. Theatre makers were doing plays as written, simply transcribed into Zoom, which unsurprisingly meant something was lost from it. You can’t just thrust Macbeth into Zoom and expect it to still be relevant. When I wrote MARTHA., I felt that...

30 new graduates from UKSA’s Superyacht Cadetship course ready for work Almost half the graduates from UKSA’s Superyacht Cadetship course have already secured work, with 37 per cent having had their courses paid for by donors Leading maritime training and education charity, UKSA, is delighted to announce that 30 of its students, aged 18-25, have graduated from its flagship Superyacht Cadetship course. A virtual graduation ceremony was held over the weekend, attended by the students and their families, friends of UKSA, staff and funding partners.  Almost half secured work With the suppor...