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Jo Caird: Why Society Needs to Put Disability in the Spotlight WOS
25 October 2011
There are plenty of reasons to champion disability theatre and the inclusion of deaf and disabled artists in mainstream theatre practice. From the importance of equality of access to artistic pr....
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Jo Caird: Writing a Play in a Day WOS
19 October 2011
This weekend the The 24 Hour Plays – Old Vic New Voices returns for a sixth year, with 50 actors, directors, writers and producers between the ages of 18 and 25 coming together to cre....
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Jo Caird: Is it Madness to Launch a Theatre in a Recession? WOS
12 October 2011
Last week saw the launch of the Brixton Empire, a new theatre space in the converted St Matthew's Church in the heart of Brixton town centre. Any ravers among you will recognise the venue as Mass, ....
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Jo Caird: Theatre 1-0 Sport WOS
4 October 2011
The London 2012 Olympic Games have been sold to us at least partly on the premise that sport brings people together and is therefore good for humanity. And although I can see that major sporting ev....
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Jo Caird: A Good Week for Elizabethan Dramatists WOS
28 September 2011
Two theatres made major announcements this week. On Monday, Shakespeare's Globe launched its Globe to Globe Festival, in which 37 plays will be performed in 37 languages by 37 different int....
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Jo Caird: As Seen On TV? - When Theatre Looks to Television for Audiences WOS
21 September 2011
Watching Downton Abbey on Sunday night, I was surprised to see an advert for the National Theatre's production of War Horse in the West End. I don't watch a lot of television, so theatre adverts....
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Jo Caird: Gr8 Show, Shame Re T'Tweeting WOS
15 September 2011
As I scanned through the press release for A Clockwork Orange, the show currently running at Theatre Royal Stratford East (see below for my review), I noticed the following paragraph, tagged ont....
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Jo Caird: Where Are All the Older Performers? WOS
8 September 2011
Among my theatrical bêtes noires is young actors playing older characters for no good reason. At its best, on those occasions when the young actor in question is talented, this looks pecul....
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Jo Caird: Reading the Stars at the Fringe WOS
2 September 2011
At the end of July, just before setting off for Edinburgh, I did a little statistical analysis of the shows I reviewed at last year's Fringe. In 2010, as this year, I was reviewing for another ....
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Jo Caird: Site-Specific Shows on the Fringe WOS
26 August 2011
Go see a show at the Fringe and there's a fairly good chance that you'll find yourself in a non-traditional performance space. There are a few proper theatres in Edinburgh, of course, where ....
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