We are monitoring the coronavirus outbreak closely, taking guidance from our Board of Trustees, the UK Government and the NHS daily. Our position up to now has been to continue our work as normally as we possibly can, but with an eye to an...
Read moreStoneCrabs Theatre has appointed arts consultant Fabio Santos to the newly created post of Executive Director. He will be working alongside the company’s founding director, Franko Figueiredo, who continues in his role as Artistic Director. Fabio...
Read moreIt’s a whole genre of videos on YouTube, a feature of almost every LGBTQ+ storyline on television and there’s a whole day dedicated to it on October 11th each year. But what exactly do we mean when we talk about coming out? Little ways we come...
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“Inês and myself got really inspired by the audience responses to “Tieta” our last play and decided to re-work the idea, and together with Almiro Andrade, we created something that used all the elements that the audiences had enjoyed. We...
Read moreStoneCrabs Theatre is seeking new Trustees to complement and expand the skills and networks of our existing Board.
Read moreMany well-known theatre practitioners have turned to other cultures for inspiration: from Antonin Artaud, who was particularly inspired by Balinese dance, to Bertolt Brecht, who was interested in China’s theatrical traditions; from Jerzy...
Read moreThere’s no straight road to becoming a theatre director. The route is winding, improvised, long, hard, unpaid and often without promise. It’s lonely – and most of the time completely terrifying – attempting, as a training director, to guide...
Read moreThroughout 2015, we’ve heard and read a lot about the current lack of opportunities in Theatre and Arts for those of working class and BAME backgrounds (Black, Asian, and minority ethnic, an acronym used to refer to members of non-white...
Read moreby Rebecca Gwyther As an essential part of the StoneCrabs Young Directors Programme we are introduced to industry professionals, providing us with talks and workshops that will help us with our knowledge of the industry and our job as a director...
Read more1) Is there an age limit on joining the Young Directors Training Programme? No. The Young Directors Training Programme was created to facilitate the development of theatre directors in the very early stages of their career, at whatever age. We...
Read moreTheatre trailers have been around for quite a few years now and with social media being very much a part of our culture it is vital that your marketing team has as much online content they possibly can. When I first started making theatre...
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