Being the Assistant Director on Flight
Octagon Academy Member Beatrice De Goede shares her experience as Assistant Director on REVEAL Festival production Flight.
Nuzhat Ali - FLIGHT
Nuzhat Ali, writer of FLIGHT, gives an insight into her writing process and her attempt to understand the life of refugees from their perspective.
Monkeywood return for REVEAL Festival 2018
Monkeywood Theatre, who brought us WITCH and MULTISTORY, are a Manchester based theatre company making authentic and innovative plays in the North West. Alex from the Octagon chats with the team behind their next production, TRIAL.
Ben Tagoe, writer of When We Were Brothers, and his exploration of the fragile nature of masculinity
The fragile nature of masculinity is a recurring theme in a lot of my writing. However, I’ve wanted to write a play specifically about male mental health and male friendships for a long time. Those relationships and the brittleness of the male psyche provide the central themes of ‘When We Were Brothers’.
Decades of the Octagon 1987 - 1997
As we continue to celebrate 50 years of The Octagon, our third 'Decades' blog travels through 1987 to 1997.
The Andrea Project: supporting young, female talent
Amy Liptrott (Academy Director & Producer), who accompanied the young writers to London, tells us more.
Interview: Octagon National Prizewinners
Sarah McDonald-Hughes and Curtis Cole are the co-writers of Sherbet, one of two New Writing plays that won this year's Octagon National Prize. Artistic Assistant Alex Joynes met up with the two writers, who will also be performing their work, to find out a bit more.
Snapshot Insight: inside Hamlet rehearsals
Hamlet opens in a little over a week and rehearsals are in full swing. Last week Press and Digital officer Amy Hailwood snuck into rehearsals to have a look at how they were getting on.
Jane Eyre: a novel that still speaks today
Jane Eyre achieved swift success and established a long lasting place in English literature
FACT FILE: Charlotte Brontë
A writer of passionate moral conviction who gave powerful voice to a female perspective in the character of Jane Eyre