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Matt Trueman

Matt Trueman writes about theatre for the Guardian

August 2019

  • Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag at the 2013 Edinburgh fringe.

    'Coolest night in town': the club where Phoebe Waller-Bridge created Fleabag

    Once based in a rundown boozer, DryWrite nights encouraged risk and giddy game-playing – their spirit is felt in Killing Eve and across British theatre today

July 2019

  • Rehearsal for There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

    A light that never goes out: luddite rebellion returns to Manchester

    Theatre company Kandinsky explore the city’s political identity and the legacy of luddism in our age of austerity and automation

April 2019

  • Alan Ayckbourn

    Alan Ayckbourn at 80: 'He's up there with Shakespeare and Fawlty Towers!'

    On his 80th birthday, actors Penelope Wilton, Ben Miles and Nina Sosanya celebrate an achingly funny playwright

March 2019

  • Who would live in a house like this? ... Enda Walsh’s Rooms.

    The really empty space: do you need actors to make theatre?

    From Enda Walsh’s disembodied voices to a Royal Court escape room, experimental theatre is being made without performers

February 2019

  • Jennifer Joseph, Lucy Edkins, Jade Small and TerriAnn Oudjar

    'A world to escape into': how theatre gives prisoners a way out

  • Ned Bennett, centre, with scenes from (clockwise from top left): Pomona, An Octoroon, Buggy Baby and Yen

    Ned Bennett: 'I want audiences to soil themselves and throw up'

December 2018

  • Heart of Darkness by Imitating the Dog.

    Defacing Heart of Darkness: new plays tear down Conrad's colonialist tale

    In two contrasting stagings of the novel, one renders it ridiculous while the other confronts the debate head on

September 2018

  • Susanne Kennedy’s version of The Virgin Suicides

    Move over Ivo van Hove: Europe's hottest theatre directors

    The Belgian director has blazed his way into the British theatre scene. Who’s next? A French marathon man and an Austrian politico among others

August 2018

  • Home by Geoff Sobell

    'Buildings tell stories': how the housing crisis inspired an Edinburgh show

  • Chase Scenes

    Sixty chase scenes in 60 minutes: Edinburgh show re-enacts movie pursuits

March 2018

  • The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama perform Punk Rock by Simon Stephens.

    A bunch of amateurs? Playwrights' astonishing am-dram experiences

  • ‘The whole audition is a performance: you’re playing you at your best’ … Noma Dumezweni, Don Warrington and Julie Hesmondhalgh.

    'You try to escape with a modicum of dignity': actors on their best and worst auditions

January 2018

  • Amarnah Amuludun and Ellice Stevens in The Drill by Breach Theatre

    Anxiety attack: the theatre company investigating anti-terror training

  • Hun-Mok Yung and Charlotte Clamens in Peeping Tom’s Mother

    'Bodies can go further than you think': Peeping Tom's bamboozling shows about parenthood

November 2017

  • Sally Cookson, director of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, at West Yorkshire Playhouse

    Finding Narnia: Sally Cookson on the real trauma in CS Lewis's fantasy

    After the wild success of Jane Eyre and Peter Pan, the director and her company are conjuring up The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. She talks about how the Good Fairy got her into theatre – and why kids are the most exacting audiences

September 2017

  • The Tin Drum - rehearsals - press publicity image Credit: Steve Tanner

    'The church of the lost cause': inside Kneehigh's wild Cornish home

    To create The Tin Drum, the theatre company spent two weeks tucked away in a cluttered rural retreat where they eat, run and rehearse together – just don’t call it a commune, says artistic director Mike Shepherd

July 2017

  • Benedict Andrews and his productions Caligula, Three Sisters, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Benedict Andrews' full-throttle theatre: 'I want to bother you in your dreams'

    As he directs Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell in a sizzling Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the Australian discusses waging war on the old guard, his obsession with desire and why he’s inspired by the ‘visceral violence’ of Francis Bacon

May 2017

  • The Suicide at the Lyttelton theatre

    Stage plight: directors and designers on handling Britain's trickiest theatres

  • No Villain, a global premiere by Arthur Miller, at the Old Red Lion, London, in 2015.

    Time for another round: the rebirth of pub theatre

February 2017

  • Lucy Ellinson in Grounded in 2013

    'Harder, faster, louder': how drone-pilot drama Grounded shook the world

    George Brant’s electric monologue Grounded was one of the first plays to explore a new form of war. The playwright, actor Lucy Ellinson and director Christopher Haydon recall creating a fringe smash that channelled Top Gun
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