At the moment, the world is a very strange place, with the majority of us confined to our homes for the foreseeable future. In particular, all theatres have ...

Impromptu Shakespeare are a troop of wonderful improvising actors with a love for the Bard.

If you’d have told me that a musical cabaret show of three older women, with a combined age of 185 would sell out Nottinghams Concert Hall..

On Monday, a group of us braved the cold, stormy weather and attended Longpig’s production of “Two”, presented at the Theatre Royal Nottingham as part of the...

2019 is coming to an end, and over the course of 3 blog posts, I will be publishing a series that casts a critical eye of the last year of ETC, looking at wh...

2019 is coming to an end, and over the course of 3 blog posts, I will be publishing a series that casts a critical eye of the last year of ETC, looking at wh...

2019 is coming to an end, and over the course of 3 blog posts, I will be publishing a series that casts a critical eye of the last year of ETC, looking at wh...

The following is an extended version of the article found in the programme for "Constellations". In “Constellations”, we explore the idea that there could ex...

Acting in “Constellations” (our upcoming show, written by Nick Payne) is not easy. In fact, playing Roland is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. This ...

‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ is a notoriously difficult play to put on, especially for an am-dram group. Based on the Commedia dell’arte classic ‘The Servant of Tw...

“Hedda Gabler” by Henrik Ibsen is one of my favourite plays, so when I found out that the Lowry were revamping the play as “Hedda Tesman”, adapted by Cordeli...

Many new actors and graduates of drama degree’s will have inevitably scoured the web for acting jobs.

Sometimes, things can just become a bit too much. For everyone. You don’t have to be a world-famous actor, a star, or even somebody a tiny bit famous to thin...

“Ghosts” is a very subdued play that does not call for a lot of lighting changes or music cues. Mostly, the play involves characters having conversations (or...

It’s now been a year since myself, Tom and Ezra performed “Teechers”. It doesn’t feel like a year ago. In many ways, it feels a lot longer than that. When we...

With our first performance done and dusted, there’s just one night of Ghosts left, which means one more chance to experience Elemental Theatre’s shocking nig...

This cult classic, from the 70’s, is still standing strong after 40 years on the stage.

Learning lines can often be the bane of every budding thespian's life when it comes to putting on a show.

How does a well groomed man in his mid 20’s convincingly step on stage as a haggard old alcoholic on the 15th of September?

Like most solutions, the answer lay in trial and error. It’s no secret that none of our cast were able to immediately jump right into role.