Productions

Programming is a tricky thing, especially when you only have a couple of shows a year. And representation can be a difficult balancing act when you have so few opportunities (although not as difficult as some might have you believe). With that said, we wanted to talk about our next piece of programming, which we […]

As part of the Associate programme Lizzie, a student at one of our Associate Universities, joined us for a four-day development workshop for our upcoming play.

Taj Atwal, star in our new production of Andrea Dunbar’s iconic play Rita, Sue and Bob Too, talks about her first encounter with the work of a young woman who would come to be her favourite playwright.

In May we opened a show called A View From Islington North*, comprising short political satires. Here we publish three of the scripts in full, with the kind permission of the writers.

The dust had scarcely settled from David Cameron’s successful attempt to blow up Britain, when I started receiving puzzled enquiries from theatre-goers attending my short play THE ACCIDENTAL LEADER.

Is laughing at politics a catalyst for change – or a substitute? With A View From Islington North about to open in the West End, we asked three brilliant satirists about the relationship between comedy and politics. JONATHAN LYNN co-wrote Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. He wrote and directed Clue and Nuns on the […]

You can’t see the steam train that comes to a halt, hissing and clanking, in the middle of the auditorium during All That Fall – theatre-goers are blindfolded throughout. But you’d swear it was there, thanks to Dyfan Jones’ nine-directional sound design. Beckett’s radio play tells the story of a woman’s arduous journey to a […]

Out of Joint is bringing Max Stafford-Clark’s in-the-dark staging of Samuel Beckett’s radio play All That Fall  into the West End for just 5 weeks from 13 April, following sell-out performances in London and Bristol. He talks about why the play appeals to him more than Beckett’s better known work – and his love of […]

One of Samuel Beckett’s most acclaimed and accessible plays, All That Fall is also one of his least known. The writer’s friend and biographer Jim Knowlson explains why – and why it is “too good, too funny and too moving” to be left on the shelf. When Beckett’s first radio play was broadcast in 1957, […]

Out of Joint is presenting a rare live production of Samuel Beckett’s radio play All That Fall, in which theatre-goers will be blindfolded, the actors moving about the auditorium. One of Beckett’s most naturalistic plays, it is inspired by his native Foxrock in Ireland. We asked cast members about their first experience of Beckett.     BRÍD […]