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Yerma by Stone, Simon (Author) and Lorca, Federico Garcia (Original Author) 2017.

Frantic Assembly was founded in 1994 by Scott Graham, Steven Hoggett and Vicki Middleton. These three were students at Swansea University. One day they were suddenly inspired to start their own theatre company. They were English and Geography graduates and as such they had no experience in the field but were "willing to learn and devoured any...

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Theatre of absurd (absurd theatre) was a theatrical movement that emerged from around 1940s-1960s after WW2. After the horrifying period of war many people were left feeling empty and meaningless. This feeling of meaninglessness is covered in existentialism/ nihilism.

On the 7th of December 2024, The Skinners' School was chosen to attend an A-level theatre conference, along with many other schools, where we met the director Alexander Zeldin, we learnt about his motives behind the play and why Greek theatre is still relevant to the modern day. The Other Place was a thrilling experience with scenes ranging from...

"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride." ― Sophocles, Antigone.

"The brain of a spectator is... a playful child that will seize upon the suggestion of a think and eagerly fill in the rest" - Berkoff

Punchdrunk is an immersive theatre company set up in 2000 by Felix Barret. When studying theatre at Exeter University he found himself unsatisfied with conventional venues and fell in love with site-specific theatre. This is what prompted him to essentially reinvent theatre into a brand new experience. Punchdrunk performances usually last around...

Animal Farm is a novel about a group of animals who take control of the farm they live on.

Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality but a hammer with which to shape it — Bertolt Brecht