Anya Ryan
Critic and Culture Journalist at Freelance
Theatre Critic at The Guardian
Assistant Producer at BBC Careers
Critic and culture journo. Mainly theatre/comedy/gossip. @JSchofieldTrust fellow 2024 @_creativeaccess alumni. Commission me [email protected]
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Anya Ryan
Last year, it took me a grand total of three weeks to make the olive costume, Georgia Nicolson’s papier-mache creation from Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Night and day, I slaved away, dipping strips of newspaper into a mix of flour and water, then patting it onto a giant-sized balloon. Never have I defined myself as anything close to arty. So why did I decide to dedicate a significant portion of my life to an elaborate craft project? The answer, of course, is simple.
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1 month ago |
birminghamdispatch.co.uk | Anya Ryan
Until three years ago, Emma Tighe’s kitchen was painted in a rich, dark, and unmistakably Cadbury shade of purple. The shelves housed mugs in the shape of cocoa beans, old metal chocolate boxes, and egg cups with the Creme Egg logo on. Her collection spilled out in the form of 1920s enamel signs pinned to the walls and Victorian hot chocolate containers stacked above the cupboards. All of it was official Cadbury’s merchandise, of course. “My kitchen was completely dedicated to Cadbury’s,” she says.
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1 month ago |
thetimes.com | Anya Ryan
The first dish served in Nathan Powell’s tenure as the creative director of Liverpool’s Everyman is his own play Takeaway. But service does not run smoothly in this drama, set in a family-run Caribbean restaurant in Liverpool called Hyltons. With a larger-than-life, yellow-walled set designed by Georgia Wilmot, this play has a vividly visual feel. Yet, though the ingredients seem flavourful, the final product fails to satisfy.
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1 month ago |
thetimes.com | Anya Ryan
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Anya Ryan
The standard routine in theatre goes something like this: an actor is cast in a play; they read, learn and rehearse it; and then, at last, they perform it to an audience, who will hopefully soak up their hard work. But for Tim Crouch, one of the industry’s chief experimenters, this exercise began to feel reductive. “A lot of actor training is about holding focus within the stage and putting the audience into a receiving role,” says Crouch.
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