On Sunday, I arrived at packed foyer at Hampstead Theatre for the Women Centre Stage Symposium, produced by Sphinx Theatre. I felt like a bee in an excited swarm of women, with a vibe only [...]
Welcome to the second part of our series about casting at Smooth Faced Gentlemen. This is designed to give some insight into our process, in the interest of transparency. Much of this will be the [...]
Photo: not the best way to win work. Taken by Richard Davenport Trying to get work in the current climate is really hard, and it can feel like you’re facing it alone. Today, we want to do [...]
A few weeks ago we were asked to contribute to a piece on what the festival means to us. The outlet that asked didn’t publish in the end, so we thought we’d stick it on here, in case [...]
So last week was a very Henry IV-orientated week for us here at Smooth Faced Gentlemen proving the saying seems to stand true; all good things come in threes! On Sunday, we went to see our very [...]
Happy May Everyone! You might remember, back in August, we ran a Live Twitter Q&A for our all-female production of Titus Andronicus. Well, it’s taken a little while, but we’ve [...]
So a few people told us how terribly clever and original we are for choosing to do Titus Andronicus as an all-female production. Actually, to us, it seems like a pretty obvious choice for an [...]
A lot of you out there have been asking us a lot of questions about the company and our production of Titus Andronicus, so we’re happy to announce we’re going to have a live [...]
This article was originally posted on Anna Beecher‘s tumblog, and is reproduced here with her permission. Last night I took part in a reading of Titus Andronicus with the all-female [...]