When theatrical regime change creates an in-house drama
Any incoming artistic director faces a challenge especially when the outgoing director was as well respected as Sam Walters at Richmond's Orange TreeIt's often said that in politics and revolution it...
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Tricycle Theatre in London accused of antisemitism after cutting ties with festival over conflict in GazaThe Tricycle theatre in London is facing criticism after its refusal to host the UK Jewish Film...
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The London theatre says its concern about accepting Israeli government funding reflects a wish not to take sides over Gaza, but many interpret it as antisemitismLast week London's Tricycle theatre,...
View ArticleTheatre's decision to ban Jewish film festival is 'thin end of wedge'
Tricycle's move in wake of Gaza crisis prompts debate among film-makersThe chairman of the UK Jewish film festival has spoken for the first time about the row that led to it being withdrawn from a...
View ArticleCultural boycotts and the rise of antisemitism | @guardianletters
I hope that no reader would disagree with your editorial (9 August) that attacks in western Europe on Jewish schools, shops and synagogues indicate vile and contemptible racism which cannot be excused...
View ArticleWe must stand with the Tricycle theatre | @guardianletters
The Tricycle theatre asked the organisers of the UK Jewish Film Festival (which the Tricycle hosts annually) not to accept a sponsorship donation from the Israeli embassy. The theatre offered to cover...
View ArticleTricycle Theatre does U-turn and lifts ban on Jewish film festival
London theatre which refused to host UKJFF while it was sponsored by Israeli embassy amid Gaza crisis drops objectionA London theatre which refused to host the UK Jewish Film Festival (UKJFF) while it...
View ArticleTrue West review sibling rivalry erupts like a volcano
Tricycle theatre, LondonThis searing staging of Sam Shepards play tackles the violence between two misfit brothers head-onThe good boy and the outlaw square up to each other and the result is not...
View ArticleNew play at Tricycle theatre looks at Muslim conversion
Multitudes, set in Bradford, explores the journey of conversion and British perceptions of IslamAbout 5,000 people in the UK convert to Islam every year, the majority of whom are women. It is a...
View ArticlePostcards from Orton, pointers from Pinter: Kenneth Cranham looks back
In Loot he made castanets from Orton’s dead mum’s teeth. For The Homecoming Pinter cast him as a liar and a butcher. As he dons pyjamas for The Father, the veteran actor considers half a century in...
View ArticleA Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes review – high-energy, hot-gospelling Molière
Tricycle, London Tartuffe transplanted to the deep south is full of jet-fuelled prose and raucous hilarity but the original play’s target – blind faith – emerges unscathedHaving relocated a Lorca play...
View ArticleA Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes review – treads too softly
Tricycle theatre, LondonMarcus Gardley’s reworking of Molière’s Tartuffe has spark, but lacks dramatic driveTwo or three speeches in A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes have a rare sumptuousness, a lip-smacking...
View ArticleBen Hur review – biblical epic with a cast of … four
Tricycle theatre, LondonThe team behind The 39 Steps are back with a multitasking troupe, plus more quick changes and tomfoolery than an entire run of Monty PythonIn September, Patrick Barlow’s zany,...
View ArticleGillian Slovo: ‘I think the 2011 riots sparked something in me’
The author of new political thriller Ten Days on the failings of capitalism, the lure of Isis and finally adjusting to her home in EnglandGillian Slovo is a South African-born novelist and playwright....
View ArticleIndhu Rubasingham: ‘A space for locals – that's what theatres can be about’
The Tricycle’s artistic director on the theatre’s £5.5m makeover, working with asylum seekers – and not casting Adrian Lester as a womanBorn in Sheffield to Sri Lankan Tamil parents in 1970, Indhu...
View ArticleThe Invisible Hand review – Ayad Akhtar's thriller is right on the money
Tricycle theatre, LondonThe arguments about global economics in Akhtar’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-winning Disgraced are so dramatic that it’s a shame when the plot kicks inOscar Wilde’s Miss Prism...
View ArticleWilliam Hoyland obituary
The actor William Hoyland, who has died aged 73, was a stalwart of the plays edited from public inquiries or trials that Nicolas Kent directed at the Tricycle theatre in Kilburn, north-west London. The...
View Article'I didn't fancy being stuck in North Korea': the stormy thriller by a...
In Francis Turnly’s trilogy one schoolgirl becomes a cat and another goes missing. The sheep farmer turned dramatist discusses The Great Wave ‘I tick a variety of boxes,” says Francis Turnly, whose...
View ArticleKilburn's Tricycle relaunches as Kiln theatre with Zadie Smith's White Teeth
Artistic director Indhu Rubasingham explains how, after its £7m facelift, the theatre will give a platform to ‘stories we don’t hear’In the six years since Indhu Rubasingham was appointed its artistic...
View ArticleKeep Tricycle name for refitted theatre | Letters
Former artistic directors and board members call for a rethinkAs both the former artistic directors and all three previous chairs of the board, as well as 12 past board members of London’s Tricycle...
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