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
"How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",. - Gregor Samsa
Konstantin Stanislavski (1863-1938, Co-artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre) created a a system for acting that allowed us, as actors, to create truthful and believable characters. This system is just as if not more popular in the modern day then it was all those years ago. Stanislavski's naturalism has dominated theatre for over 80 years...
William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was born the the 23rd of April and died in 1616. During his Career Shakespeare the most influential playwright in history. Shakespeare's reputation was established in London by 1592. It was during this time that Shakespeare wrote his...
Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a play written by Dario Fo in 1970. On the 12th of December 1969, a bomb exploded in the headquarters of the National Agrarian Bank in Piazza Fontana, Milan, Italy. The Bomb killed 17 people and injured 88. In the same afternoon 3 more bombs exploded and 1 was discovered unexploded. The police immediately...