All Our Children review – a shameful historical period horrifies anew
How do you tell a story as complex as the eugenics movement, which is pursued afresh in writer-director Stephen Unwin’s new play All Our Children? Its idealistic origins lie in … Continue reading
‘It’s not just for Joey, it’s for a better world’ ~ Special needs disability parenting BLOOM
British director Stephen Unwin is set to direct his new play All Our Children—about a German clinic in 1941 that sends disabled children to their death as part of the Nazis’ killing program. … Continue reading
How my son’s disability is helping me to direct Joe Egg | The Independent April 2013
The more plays I direct, the more I know that I don’t direct them well unless I bring my own experiences into the rehearsal room. Source: How my son’s disability … Continue reading
Archive Review • KING LEAR • The Old Vic • 2003
FROM THE ARCHIVE The ornate Victoriana of The Old Vic auditorium sits in stark contrast to the ultra-modern setting of the English Touring Theatre and Malvern Theatres’ production of Shakespeare’s King … … Continue reading
Stephen Unwin • Theatre Then and Now
Republished from Facebook with the kind permission of its author, the director, writer and teacher Stephen Unwin. The deaths this year of Bill Gaskill and now Howard Davies have made me … Continue reading
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Archive Review • JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN • Richmond Theatre • 2003
English Touring Theatre have a distinctive reputation when it comes to staging Ibsen. Their production of John Gabriel Borkman has not pleased everyone but never having seen the play before, Stephen Unwin’s … Continue reading
Archive Review • JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN • Greenwich Theatre • 2003
Cold and ice have non-speaking parts in the English Touring Theatre’s production of Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman at Greenwich Theatre. Against a backdrop of falling snow and a leafless birch tree, in … Continue reading
Archive Interview • LINDA BASSETT • John Gabriel Borkman • 2003
There is nothing more beguiling than talking to someone who is passionate, and self-effacing, about their work. Linda Bassett, who is currently playing Ella Rentheim in Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman for English … Continue reading
Archive Review • KING LEAR • The Old Vic • 2003
The ornate Victoriana of The Old Vic auditorium sits in stark contrast to the ultra-modern setting of the English Touring Theatre and Malvern Theatres‘ production of Shakespeare’s King Lear which opened last … Continue reading
Archive Interview • Stephen Unwin • English Touring Theatre • 2003
The Play as Written Stephen Unwin is energized by the unexpected panic of rehearsing an understudy for Juliet in his latest touring production of Romeo and Juliet. Due to open at the Oxford … Continue reading
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