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Longform, thoughtful coverage of the UK's theatre landscape. Find us at exeuntmagazine.substack.com
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 15
Theatre bluesky - have you got an Edinburgh show to promote, or a season to announce? You can now advertise with Exeunt!

All the info on how to speak directly to a theatre-loving, super-engaged audience is over on our Substack - or drop us an email

⬇️ info, examples, and pricing in the link below!
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Exeunt is a leading publication for independent, inventive, long-form writing about theatre. Since being established in 2011, the digital magazine has attracted a loyal following among audiences and i...
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 13h
The review as fanfic? A review following the evolution of the novel form? A reviewer trapped inside a play, being chased around by Łukasz Twarkowski…?

It must be an Exeunt round-up!
Review round-up: Born With Teeth, Romans, ROHTKO, The Weir
Exeunt writers get trapped inside some recent plays
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 3d
Angharad Jones, the director of (the) Woman, has written us a brilliantly honest piece about how the theatre industry treats mothers – and how complicit she can feel, too, as a director
'We're told we can have it all – and we've bought into it, like a fucked-up myth'
Angharad Jones gets honest about how the theatre industry treats mothers – and how complicit she can feel, as a director
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 7d
Chris Goode's voice dominated the theatre blogging culture of the 2010s. @alicesaville.bsky.social reflects on how the abusive theatremaker used his writings to hide in plain sight

Alice points to the need for greater transparency in the theatre industry. In that spirit, this post is free to read
Chris Goode told the truth about who he was. How did we fail to see it?
Goode's voice dominated the theatre blogging culture of the 2010s. Alice Saville reflects on how the abusive theatremaker used his writings to hide in plain sight
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 10d
Why do we interview artists before their shows open - rather than after, when we can really get stuck into it?

In this first of a new series, @hollywilliams.bsky.social interviews Emily Burns on the inspiration and intentions behind her ‘scrapbooked’ new production of Measure for Measure...
Post-show discussion: Emily Burns on Measure for Measure
The director on cutting Shakespeare's 'unfunny' jokes about sex workers, adding in quotes from Mary Queen of Scots, and being inspired by MAGA wives
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 14d
As a special treat - and to a say a big thank you / diolch yn fawr iawn to everyone who contributed to this list of brilliant Welsh plays - today's piece is paywall-free and free to read!
The best Welsh plays: an alternative syllabus
There's never been a Welsh play as a GCSE set text. Gary Owen, Seiriol Davies, Owen Sheers, Francesca Goodridge, Tim Price and more have some suggestions....
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
After hit TV and film versions of David Nicholls' books, now Starter for Ten and One Day are getting the musical treatment. Isobel Lewis on how it all translates...
Your starter for ten: Who is our most adaptable writer and why is it David Nicholls?
After hit TV and film versions of his books, now Starter for Ten and One Day are getting the musical treatment
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 21d
A new British musical, Black Power Desk, honours the 'untold stories' of the UK's revolutionaries

Angelo Irving talks to Urielle Klein-Mekongo and Gail Babb about why a show about 1970s activism feels so relevant today
A love letter to the British Black Power movement
Black Power Desk honours the 'untold stories' of the UK's revolutionaries
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Matt Barton @matt-barton.bsky.social · 23d
Reviewed Manchester’s Darkfield triple bill; I’m yet to see the light with their shows
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 24d
As three Darkfield shows open in containers around Manchester, Matt Barton asks if they make for transporting theatre - or just a thrill ride?
What we see in the dark
As three Darkfield shows open around Manchester, Matt Barton asks if they make for transporting theatre – or just a thrill ride?
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 24d
As three Darkfield shows open in containers around Manchester, Matt Barton asks if they make for transporting theatre - or just a thrill ride?
What we see in the dark
As three Darkfield shows open around Manchester, Matt Barton asks if they make for transporting theatre – or just a thrill ride?
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 28d
'In a way, this play has made me feel more English’

Hailey Bachrach (@bachrach.bsky.social) chats with Philip Arditti and Nina Bowers about revisiting their dark satire English King Killing Foreigners in a new political era
'It's a colonial invasion narrative': How Henry V inspired English Kings Killing Foreigners
In 2019, Philip Arditti and Nina Bowers took aim at both the nationalism of Shakespeare's play and the rise of 'woke'. But have those targets shifted?
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 9
We asked d/Deaf actors and BSL interpreters to tell us all about how they use sign language on stage.

What’s it like, translating written English to BSL? Or trying to sign for multiple characters at once? Or interpreting the dense poetry of Shakespeare, or how a song is being sung in a musical?
BSL on stage: 'It gives me the ability to express so many more things'
From signing Shakespeare to rapping in a musical: how sign language can light up our stages
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 5
What theatre should you watch this autumn? THIS LOT!

Not to toot our own horn, but Exeunt writers do write about the really interesting work happening all around the country in these pieces - going beyond the same ten shows that are in your average broadsheet round-ups…
Exeunt recommends... the best autumn theatre
Plus: reviews round-ups and a spotlight on gobscure
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 2
A collab today, between Exeunt and Queer Theatre Archive - Kate Wyver interviews Alastair Curtis about The AIDS Plays Project, re-staging shows written by playwrights who died of AIDS
A lost generation, found onstage
In both Queer Theatre Archive and Exeunt today: how The AIDS Plays Project is expanding the queer canon
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 30
The best theatre bars! As chosen by Exeunt editor @hollywilliams.bsky.social

what do you think of the choices? Where did we miss? Where’s overrated or underrated? What theatre bar does the best cocktail or nicest glass of wine?
The ten best theatre bars
A subjective list of where to enjoy interval drinks and post-show chat
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 27
And that’s all folks! Our coverage of Edinburgh fringe festival 2025 is officially DONE - with two final excellent reviews from @alicesaville.bsky.social - of Wild Thing! and Jeezus! (exclamation marks: the artists’ own)

It was a blast. Thanks for following along with us! Till next year…
Edinburgh festival fringe reviews 2025
All our reviews, as we get 'em
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 26
Author Daisy Buchanan writes about how she loves theatre, but can struggle as an autistic woman with noisy audiences...

What do you think of her suggestion that theatres might offer 'ultra focused' as well as 'relaxed' shows - to cater for a wider range of audience needs?
'Relaxed' performances are great - why can't we have 'ultra focused' ones too?
Daisy Buchanan loves theatre. But as an autistic woman, she finds the sensory overload of a noisy audience difficult
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 22
Isobel Lewis has been going to Giffords Circus every year with her family since she was a child… she writes about their new show Laguna Bay, and explores the special magic of this travelling circus
Growing up with Giffords Circus
It may now be beloved by a certain celeby Cotswold crowd - but Isobel Lewis finds rough magic beyond the village green cosplay
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 20
A reminder that, in the last week of the fringe, we're still updating our Edinburgh coverage with reviews by Ben Kulvichit, Holly Williams, Laura Horton, and Catherine Love

Drop by for fresh thoughts on: Windblown - Jonah Non Grata - DREAMGIRL - Up Your Ass - These Mechanisms - Aether - Ozzy Algar
Edinburgh festival fringe reviews 2025
All our reviews, as we get 'em
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 19
As her book on feminist forms is published, Hannah Greenstreet (@hgreenstreet1.bsky.social) writes about ten influential plays from the last decade - and what they tell us about changing politics, tastes, and trends
Ten years of feminist theatre in ten plays
Hannah Greenstreet on a decade of absolute bangers
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12
Burlesque the Musical has been the most headline-grabbing show of the summer… but what do real burlesque performers make of it, and of the actual scene in the UK?
Burlesque performers tell us what they think of Burlesque the Musical
Holli Mae Johnson, Sadie Sinner, Mimi Sugarpill, and Jessabelle Thunder discuss what pop culture and the media get wrong about their art form
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 8
You want Edinburgh fringe reviews? We've got reviews!

Right this way for the latest Exeunt write-ups of PALDEM - PAINKILLERS - THE HORSE OF JENIN - PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD - TOM AT THE FARM - BRAINSLUTS
Edinburgh festival fringe reviews 2025
All our reviews, as we get 'em
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 8
"I was invited by a producer to sit down with a performer and told, 'They are just going to shout at you and call you a c**t, just let them get it out'"

"The performer and director of a show were both sleeping with a critic… and were so angry when their show wasn’t well received”
What it's really like to be a theatre PR
Laura Horton worked as a PR for 15 years before becoming a writer. She shares the good, the bad, and the very ugly behaviour PRs face
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 5
Today's newsletter is our first roundup from the Edinburgh fringe - featuring reviews of OHIO, CONSUMED, RED LIKE FRUIT, and FUSELAGE

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Edinburgh round-up: Ohio, Consumed, Red Like Fruit, Fuselage
Reviews of some shows at the fringe
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 4
Our coverage of the Edinburgh fringe is now LIVE !

Check out our reviews for RED LIKE FRUIT, OHIO and FUSELAGE - and keep checking back, as we'll be updating this post on Substack with more reviews throughout August...

(they won't all be written by women called Holly, promise)
Edinburgh festival fringe reviews 2025
All our reviews, as we get 'em
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 1
A few glimpses - for the full (brilliant) piece, subscribe to Exeunt for only a fiver a month!
Wednesday 16 April 2025 – the day the Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, sex is binary and decided by biology – wasn’t great for trans people in the UK. Scratch that: it wasn’t great for anyone in the UK who thrives on complexity, cares for human difference, or is committed to social transformation through feminist living. There was, however, one place it was possible to feel positive that day. At the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts in Brighton, Emma Frankland gave the first performance of No Apologies: a new show that begins with the possibility that Kurt Cobain was a trans woman but ends in a thrilling call for community and resistance. The ethical consideration with which Emma handles the story of Kurt Cobain in No Apologies has, she believes, helped her reach “people who are outside the trans community, who are really moved by the honouring of Kurt. I was so nervous about talking about Kurt Cobain, but I’ve learned over the years that the more personal you are about something, the more that allows an audience to see themselves in it as well. It also gives a kind of authority: if I say I was 14 when this album came out and it affected me, then I’m talking about something that I’m an expert on. And that feels a safer way to hold that potentially more difficult conversation of talking about someone else’s gender identity, which I don’t have a right to know.” At the same time, it helps her appreciate what’s positive in the present. “We’ve got this generation, maybe even more than a generation, of young transgender, gender non-conforming, people coming through who don’t know a world where Trans Pride didn’t exist. Who don’t know a world where trans celebrities didn’t exist, where trans literature didn’t exist. What I’m talking about in No Apologies, that question of ‘what do you do when you’ve got no fucking role models’, is not the case now.”
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