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Find information relating to productions, writers, artists, directors, companies we've worked with, press releases and news, details about Live Theatre's development and its buildings, and much more. There are interviews, articles, press releases, photos, videos and audio files and material is being added all the time.
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A story with, as yet, no end
What could be more natural in the Live Theatre auditorium, where the unusual horse-shoe shape and the cabaret seating mean that the audience are never really separated from the performers, than for everyone to ‘join in’?
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Live Theatre’s Artistic Director Joe Douglas discusses The Cheviot, The Stag & The Black, Black Oil
David Whetstone talks to Artistic Director Joe Douglas about bringing this legendary Scottish play south of the border in which is its first known professional production in England, and bringing it to North East audiences
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A Word From the Director, Anna Ryder on Gary McNair's Locker Room Talk
When I first read the script for Locker Room Talk it felt like I had read something I shouldn't. The words move between what is deemed okay within the boundaries of accepted conversation, to comments that are outright offensive, derogatory and dangerous.
