Being the Assistant Director on Flight

Octagon Academy Member Beatrice De Goede shares her experience as Assistant Director on REVEAL Festival production Flight.
Octagon Academy Member Beatrice De Goede shares her experience as Assistant Director on REVEAL Festival production 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 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.
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’.
As we continue to celebrate 50 years of The Octagon, our third 'Decades' blog travels through 1987 to 1997.
Amy Liptrott (Academy Director & Producer), who accompanied the young writers to London, tells us more.
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.
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 achieved swift success and established a long lasting place in English literature
A writer of passionate moral conviction who gave powerful voice to a female perspective in the character of Jane Eyre