Posts Tagged ‘The Yard Theatre’
Yard sticks: Hackney theatre that began as a pop-up secures funding for state-of-the-art renovation
Yard Theatre director ‘incredibly proud’ as venue sures up its long-term future
Read MoreLucy McCormick: Lucy & Friends: ‘Awkward, unhinged and unimaginably good’ theatre review
‘A disarming ability to pull something charming out of total chaos’
Read MoreThe Cherry Orchard, The Yard Theatre, stage review: ‘Space drama that never quite gets into orbit’
Vinay Patel’s reimagining of the Chekhov classic is ‘weighed down by its own ambition’
Read MoreThe Yard: Live Drafts – Climate Works, stage review: ‘Electric ideas to help save our world’
Four work-in-progress plays offer ‘hope and inspiration’ in the battle against climate change
Read MoreThe Yard Theatre announces new programme for artists following £250k survival grant
The Wick venue is inviting applications to Live Lab, a paid course designed to teach artists from all disciplines how to direct a stage show
Read MoreArmadillo, Yard Theatre: ‘A thriller about trauma, grief and memory’
Mumburger writer Sarah Kosar’s latest play is ‘dark, complicated and tense’
Read MoreYou, Me, The World and Hackney Wick: new play at The Yard explores the history and future of E9
Following a free community meal, the stories of twenty locals from all walks of Wick life will be told tomorrow 13 January
Read MoreForty films in a day at Short Sighted Cinema on 18 June
The all day event at The Yard in Hackney Wick will feature hour-long blocks of shorts – from heartwarming to horrifying – on six different themes
Read More“We’ll be unemployed”: meet the locals caught up in Hackney Wick’s ‘Industrial Devolution’
Non-profit LandSky & The Yard theatre partner up for new interview project aiming to bring voices of the Wick to life
Read MoreThis Beautiful Future, The Yard, theatre review – love during wartime
The latest production at The Yard, This Beautiful Future, is “a tale of love and war” set in occupied France, 1944
Read MoreWarming up the Wick: community’s charity coat rack heats up
A local project that provides free winter clothing is growing in popularity
Read MoreRemoval Men, The Yard Theatre, review: ‘at its best worthy of Joe Orton’
An Immigration Removal Centre is the setting for a new play at the Yard Theatre that explores a ‘crisis of compassion’ in society, through song, dance and caustic-whimsical dialogue
Read MoreFat White Family founding member’s debut play Removal Men lands in Hackney Wick
A love story set inside an immigration removal centre asks whether compassion is possible in a world of wire fences
Read MorePark bench politics: Made Visible at the Yard Theatre
An encounter with two women in Victoria Park inspired Deborah Pearson’s play about race and identity
Read MoreNew play Lines looks at how peace is 'just a gap between wars'
Four soldiers struggle to adapt to not being at war in the latest production at the Yard Theatre
Read MoreUsing my religion: the making of Chewing Gum's Michaela Coel
Star’s strict religious upbringing on an East London estate proved the catalyst for her new TV comedy in which nothing is off limits
Read MoreBeyond Caring – stage review: the shocking reality behind zero-hours contracts
Developed by The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick, Beyond Caring, about zero-hours contract cleaners in a meat factory, has now transferred to the National
Read MoreThe Mikvah Project – stage review: 'dissecting stereotypes and clichés'
Erotically-charged new play The Mikvah Project at The Yard Theatre explores Jewish faith and the boundaries of love
Read MoreStink Foot review: A sticky situation at the Yard Theatre
Greek tragedy gets a messy revisionist twist in Stink Foot
Read MoreBeyond Caring zeros in on zero-hours contracts
A group of cleaners in a meat factory is the backdrop for Beyond Caring which looks at the impact of zero-hours contracts
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