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First Person: playwright Tanika Gupta on being back in the rehearsal room once more | reviews, news & interviews First Person: playwright Tanika Gupta on being back in the rehearsal room once more First Person: playwright Tanika Gupta on being back in the rehearsal room once more The writer expresses her joy at going 'Out West' by Tanika GuptaMonday, 07 June 2021 On the first day of rehearsals for Out West at the Lyric Hammersmith in May, myself and fellow playwrights Roy Williams and Simon Stephens stood, masked up and lateral flow tested for Covid, and listened as the Lyric H...

Submitting... “I enjoyed all of that, of course,” says Sievewright, “but I just felt there was something about me that didn’t quite fit in to that West End world. I wanted to get back into the Scottish scene; and In 2012, I had an audition for Cora Bissett’s Glasgow Girls, the musical about the Glasgow schoolgirls who campaigned for their asylum seeker friends to stay in the UK. Dawn Sievewright and John McLarnan “And as soon as I got into that, I just thought, this is it, this is what I’ve been looking for. Then I met Vicky Featherstone, the then-director of the National Theatr...

Submitting... Peering over the top were the spectators ,the riders’ dizzy faces coming within touching distance, the racket of the engines and smell of the diesel helping to charge this electric atmosphere. Volunteer PK in the Wall of Death removing a parachute that was draped over the structure. PIC: Robert Perry. Now in a warehouse on the edge of the Clyde, Artist Stephen Skrynka and a team of volunteers have built a brand new Wall of Death, the first to be created in Scotland. There were no drawings, no plans and no money but the wooden superstructure, which measures 16ft high and 29ft a...

© Helen Murray The Royal Court in west London has revealed a reopening programme of work taking it through until the end of 2021. Award-winning playwright Jasmine Lee-Jones will return with hit show seven methods of killing kylie jenner, playing from 16 June to 27 July 2021 and reopening the west London venue. Having previously premiered in the venue's upstairs space in 2019, the show now plays downstairs for six weeks, with Tia Bannon and Leanne Henlon starring. Plans for a digital capture are to be announced. Directed by Milli Bhatia, the piece's creative team features Rajha Shakiry (desi...

Zia Ahmed, Tife Kusoro and Ruby Thomas Announced as Jerwood New Playwrights Writers Zia Ahmed, Tife Kusoro and Ruby Thomas have all been offered full commissions to support them in developing their writing practice.by BWW News Desk Now in its 26th year, The Royal Court Theatre Jerwood New Playwrights Programme continues to support emerging writers to develop their practice, take risks and create extraordinary new work. Zia Ahmed, Tife Kusoro and Ruby Thomas have all been offered full commissions to support them in developing their writing practice. Since 1994, the Jerwood New Playwrights pr...