by Thaj Rathore | Oct 7, 2022 | Off/Stage Reviews
An intergenerational family fallout following the death of a matriarch is the rare setting for Natasha Gordon’s rejuvenating debut play, exploring the different layers of grief. Nine night is the final night when the spirit of the deceased is given a final farewell...
by Thaj Rathore | Jun 5, 2022 | Opinions, Views & Contexts
2022 marks Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee – an astonishing 70 years on the throne. No other monarch of the United Kingdom has passed this milestone, either in the past, or likely to in the foreseeable future, and is the second longest-serving monarch in the...
by Thaj Rathore | Sep 14, 2021 | Off/Stage Reviews
Award-winning theatre companies Common Wealth and Fuel Theatre collaborate with Bradford collective Speakers’ Corner and writer Zia Ahmed to lift the bonnet on Bradford youth culture. Peaceophobia is an ambitiously audacious, immersive production that intersects...
by Thaj Rathore | Aug 17, 2021 | Opinions, Views & Contexts
Let’s talk about the commitment of white-led organisations to antiracist work. What does it take for white-led organisations to succeed? And what is the value they really place on it? These have all been very pertinent questions for me recently. Tribe was inundated...
by Thaj Rathore | May 30, 2021 | Opinions, Views & Contexts
Since the advent of storytelling and performance, actors have been able to play any tangible or intangible role. It is not unknown for actors to represent people, animals, objects and even emotions. This lack of boundary and boundless imagination is what makes stories...
