Tricycle theatre to bring summer riots to Kilburn stage
The Riots will be a distillation of 40 hour-long interviews with people from the community directly involved in the riotsAfter the riots comes the drama. The Tricycle theatre in London is responding to...
View ArticleIs the Tricycle theatre right to put the London riots on stage so soon?
The official public inquiry hasn't yet begun. Yet this 'theatrical tribunal' recalls the lofty democracy of classical civilisationThe Tricycle theatre announced recently that it will present a new show...
View ArticleTricycle theatre's new artistic director is Indhu Rubasingham
Acclaimed theatremaker will succeed Nicolas Kent as artistic director when he steps down next May after 28 years in chargeIndhu Rubasingham is to be the new artistic director of the Tricycle theatre,...
View ArticleSeven days on stage – in pictures
The Stage's Alistair Smith rounds up the best of the week's theatre news, featuring a new artistic director for the Tricycle and a veteran puppy luvvyAlistair Smith
View ArticleBurn Britain Burn: Gillian Slovo's The Riots
How do you write a verbatim play about the riots when the rioters won't talk? Gillian Slovo tells Esther Addley how she pulled it offRead Michael Billington's reviewGillian Slovo was travelling in...
View ArticleThe Riots; A Walk On Part: The Fall of New Labour; The Kitchen Sink – review
Tricycle; Soho; Bush, London"You've got the legitimate anger. And then you've got, obviously, people who jump on that anger." Gillian Slovo's vivid and provoking play about the summer's riots twists...
View ArticleIn Basildon; An Appointment with the Wicker Man; The Bomb: a Partial History...
Royal Court, London; His Majesty's, Aberdeen; Tricycle, LondonAnywhere but Essex, it seems. "He's a writer," an aspirant character in David Eldridge's new play explains of her boyfriend. "What's he...
View ArticleTricycle theatre's new director aims for more diverse audience
Indhu Rubasingham, successor to Nicolas Kent, has to cope with £350,000 cut in theatre's grant, a third of its subsidyThe Tricycle theatre on Kilburn High Road, in north-west London, is opposite Planet...
View ArticleSeven days on stage: from a revamped Tricycle to an RSC knighthood
Theatreland enjoys heartening box-office figures in early 2012, but students are staying away from drama schools. It's still a good year for Sir Michael Boyd, thoughSpring breakLondon's Theatreland has...
View ArticleAdrian Lester on Ira Aldridge: 'He was a pioneer for black actors'
A new era is dawning at London's Tricycle theatre under Indhu Rubasingham, its first new artistic director in three decades. Her inaugural play – starring Adrian Lester, and written by his wife Lolita...
View ArticleRed Velvet; All That Fall; Desire Under the Elms – review
Tricycle; Jermyn Street; Lyric Hammersmith, LondonWhat an incisive, fervent beginning. Indhu Rubasingham takes over with panache at the Tricycle, bowing to the theatre's politically engaged tradition...
View ArticleShakespeare's Globe reaps 'rare' reward at Critics' Circle awards
Multilingual Globe to Globe season recognised with special prize while Young Vic, National and Tricycle sweep the boardShakespeare's Globe has received a special award from the Critics' Circle for its...
View ArticleThe Accrington Pals; Di and Viv and Rose; One Monkey Don't Stop No Show – review
Royal Exchange, Manchester; Hampstead; Tricycle, LondonWith what varied meanings the word "pals" winds through Peter Whelan's 1982 play. This is a drama full of warmth between both women and men, yet...
View ArticleMeet the new guard running British theatre
Theatre has just gone through an extraordinary changing of the guard – with almost a dozen bosses at top institutions moving on. So are their young replacements planning a big shakeup?You wait ages for...
View ArticleIndhu Rubasingham: artistic director, Tricycle theatre – profile
'I have a science background and it just felt like directing was using both halves of my brain: the creative and scientific sides'Job:Artistic director of the Tricycle theatre in Kilburn, London, since...
View ArticleAdrian Lester to reprise role of Ira Aldridge in Red Velvet at the Tricycle
Six-week revival is scheduled prior to staging of Handbagged, a new play by Moira Buffini, and Mary O'Malley's Once a CatholicAdrian Lester will reprise his award-winning performance as the actor Ira...
View ArticleIs the Tricycle theatre right to put the London riots on stage so soon?
The official public inquiry hasn't yet begun. Yet this 'theatrical tribunal' recalls the lofty democracy of classical civilisationThe Tricycle theatre announced recently that it will present a new show...
View ArticleTricycle theatre's new artistic director is Indhu Rubasingham
Acclaimed theatremaker will succeed Nicolas Kent as artistic director when he steps down next May after 28 years in chargeIndhu Rubasingham is to be the new artistic director of the Tricycle theatre,...
View ArticleSeven days on stage – in pictures
The Stage's Alistair Smith rounds up the best of the week's theatre news, featuring a new artistic director for the Tricycle and a veteran puppy luvvyAlistair Smith
View ArticleBurn Britain Burn: Gillian Slovo's The Riots
How do you write a verbatim play about the riots when the rioters won't talk? Gillian Slovo tells Esther Addley how she pulled it offRead Michael Billington's reviewGillian Slovo was travelling in...
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