When you think of theater, you probably picture a script, complete with dialogue, stage directions, scenes and settings, a couple of named characters, and a playwright’s written vision. But what ...

We hear a lot about "devised" theatre and "text-based" theatre in this tiny corner of the internet. Like Godwin's law, you might almost state that as any argument about theatre rumbles endlessly on, ...

In a recent glossary of theatre terminology, our own Michael Billington translated the term 'devised play' as 'a total mess'. Let's clear it up: that's nonsense. Can good theatre be created without a ...