Digital Theatre

Our trustee Joe Strickland has written a blog about some quick and easy tips on how to make high quality lo-fi digital theatre. Read all about it here.

How KHTA Supports the Arts

Since it was founded by a group of Brasenose undergraduates in 1996, the Kings Hall Trust for the Arts has funded a huge amount of student and early-career projects. The Trust’s emphasis is on education, but not in a formal sense; it supports small-scale work that allows young and emerging practitioners to develop new skills,…

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Interview with a theatre designer

Paul Burgess Interview originally published in ISTA's Scene magazine 1. What is your current title/position/job description? On my tax return it says ‘Theatre Designer’. But that’s not the full story. I design sets, costumes and video projections for theatre but I am also involved in the hard-to-describe grey area between visual art and experimental theatre…

Interview: being a composer

Matthew Lee Knowles When did you first feel you could call yourself a composer?When I realised I had no choice but to be a composer. It has always seemed perfectly normal to start composing in the afternoon, forgoing food and sleep, working through the night, picking hundreds of notes out of a plastic box and…

All the world’s a stage …

Carol A. Russell So you’ve graduated! You’ve got your degree, you’ve said ‘goodbye’ to student life, you’re ready to step out onto the red carpet for your next stage of life. The world is your oyster and you are the creative force in the British Arts Scene that everyone has been waiting for…except no-one else…

On Directing

Alex Clifton Introduction The moment of first contact with a play is crucial.  It is a time of great anxiety, as companies form opinions, negotiate new relationships and coordinate themselves in a new landscape.  Terms of engagement and vocabularies established on first reading, will prove difficult to alter. How do we unlock text for the…