Theatre
Can the story of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol show us a way through the climate crisis?
![The cast of new play Kyoto in rehearsals](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Kyoto-Rehearsal-pic1.jpg?w=768)
Can the story of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol show us a way through the climate crisis?
Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson created The Jungle – a play following the lives of people in the Calais Jungle migrant camp and Little Amal, the giant puppet of a Syrian refugee who crossed the world. Their new play – which features John Prescott, Angela Merkel and Al Gore – looks at the 1997 Kyoto agreement and asks whether the groundbreaking environmental agreement offers hope for the future of the planet and politics
Bradley Riches on Heartstopper, new musical Babies and how coming out helped him embrace his autism
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Bradley Riches on Heartstopper, new musical Babies and how coming out helped him embrace his autism
Maggie & Me author Damian Barr: 'Today's Tories are far beyond Thatcher's darkest dreams'
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Maggie & Me author Damian Barr: 'Today's Tories are far beyond Thatcher's darkest dreams'
'Whose voices have the right to be heard?': Censorship of Black culture has existed for decades
'Whose voices have the right to be heard?': Censorship of Black culture has existed for decades
Liz Carr: 'I was told all the time I wouldn't live to be old – and I believed it'
Liz Carr: 'I was told all the time I wouldn't live to be old – and I believed it'
Artist Rhiannon Faith: 'I refuse to live in a society where someone feels so alone they lose hope'
![Rhiannon Faith, choreographer and artistic director of Rhiannon Faith Company](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rhiannon-Faith-land©FoteiniChristofilopoulou_17-2-2.jpg?w=619)
Artist Rhiannon Faith: 'I refuse to live in a society where someone feels so alone they lose hope'
New play Capital! explores Edinburgh's financial history through eyes of Big Issue vendor
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New play Capital! explores Edinburgh's financial history through eyes of Big Issue vendor
Hamilton tour review – an urgent production as America needs heroes to rise up
![DeAngelo Jones, Shaq Taylor, Billy Nevers and KM Drew Boateng in Hamilton. Photo Danny Kaan](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HAMILTON-TOUR.-Edinburgh-Cast.-DeAngelo-Jones-Shaq-Taylor-Billy-Nevers-and-KM-Drew-Boateng.-Photo-Danny-Kaan.jpg?w=768)
Hamilton tour review – an urgent production as America needs heroes to rise up
Cruel Intentions: The '90s Musical review – nostalgia never felt so wicked
![Rhianne-Louise McCaulsky rules the school in Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical Photo](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/008_X4A5315_Cruel-Intentions_Pamela-Raith-Photography-1.jpg?w=768)
Cruel Intentions: The '90s Musical review – nostalgia never felt so wicked
Christopher Eccleston: Scrooge could be any one of those Tory ministers round the cabinet table
![Christopher Eccleston as Ebenezer Scrooge](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1595_Eccleston_-Christopher-Eccleston-as-Ebenezer-Scrooge-in-A-Christmas-Carol-at-The-Old-Vic-2023-photo-by-Manuel-Harlan-1.jpg?w=768)
Christopher Eccleston: Scrooge could be any one of those Tory ministers round the cabinet table
The Wizard of Booze: How a pantomime is helping people overcoming addiction this Christmas
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The Wizard of Booze: How a pantomime is helping people overcoming addiction this Christmas
Scene & Heard: The wild and wacky theatre project where kids write the plays
![Scene & Heard Actors group](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1594_kid-theatre_Scene-and-Heard-Actors-group.jpg?w=768)
Scene & Heard: The wild and wacky theatre project where kids write the plays
How a groundbreaking theatre project is teaching prisoners there's more to life than crime
![Perth Prison: Inmates taking part in Beside Me](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1592_Arts_Perth-Prisons-theatre_Unknown.jpeg?w=768)
How a groundbreaking theatre project is teaching prisoners there's more to life than crime
Incredible story of how a Big Issue vendor found himself at heart of Occupy protests
![David Nellist is playing Big Issue vendor Jimmy McMahon in Protest Song](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Jimmy-McMahon-file.jpg?w=768)
Incredible story of how a Big Issue vendor found himself at heart of Occupy protests
Cowbois: This 'big queer Western' is subverting macho tropes and celebrating gender outlaws
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Cowbois: This 'big queer Western' is subverting macho tropes and celebrating gender outlaws
It's a Sin star Nathaniel Hall on abuse, finding humour in dark places and powerful new show Toxic
![Nathaniel J Hall close up](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1585_Arts_nathaniel.jpeg?w=768)
It's a Sin star Nathaniel Hall on abuse, finding humour in dark places and powerful new show Toxic
Brassic FM: How 90s rave crackdowns foreshadowed attacks on our right to protest
![Brassic FM - a DJ and a woman dancing](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Brassic-FM-Gate-Theatre-hero.jpg?w=768)
Brassic FM: How 90s rave crackdowns foreshadowed attacks on our right to protest
This ambitious multi-location production of The Odyssey has created community theatre on the grandest scale
![The company of The Odyssey in rehearsals. Credit: National Theatre © Joseph Lynn](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/company-in-rehearsals-for-nt-p-scaled.jpg?w=768)
This ambitious multi-location production of The Odyssey has created community theatre on the grandest scale
'I exist as two people': Peyvand Sadeghian lays bare the politics of identity
![Peyvand Sadeghian as a child in Iran](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1576_Dual_Peyvand-child-Iran02.jpg?w=768)
'I exist as two people': Peyvand Sadeghian lays bare the politics of identity
The story of the world's first drag ABBA tribute band
![A man wearing a drag version of Agnetha from ABBA's outfit, as a woman leans over his shoulder looking at a laptop](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Ian-Hallard-Peter-Donna-Berlin-Sally-The-Way-Old-Friends-Do-credit-Darren-Bell.jpg?w=768)
The story of the world's first drag ABBA tribute band
‘I criticise Israel because I love it, not because I hate it’
![Itai Erdal in new play Soldiers of Tomorrow](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Itai-Erdal-in-Soldiers-of-Tomorrow-credit-Matt-Reznek.jpg?w=768)
‘I criticise Israel because I love it, not because I hate it’
Harold Shipman murdered my grandmother. Now I’m playing him onstage
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Harold Shipman murdered my grandmother. Now I’m playing him onstage
Grenfell: in the words of survivors – 'We want this play to sit alongside the campaign for justice'
![Actor Pearl Mackie in rehearsals](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1571_grenfell-play_Pearl-Mackie.jpg?w=768)
Grenfell: in the words of survivors – 'We want this play to sit alongside the campaign for justice'
Rocky Horror at 50: 'A place for the marginalised'
![Nell Campbell, Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry and Richard O’Brien in the 1975 movie adaptation. Image: Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1561_RH_HCKY13-scaled.jpg?w=768)
Rocky Horror at 50: 'A place for the marginalised'
'I got a letter saying I had a six-year-old son I knew nothing about. One of us had to grow up'
![Si Mack performs his new show, kid, at BEAF Festival in Bournemouth.](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Si-Mack-Tattoo.-Image-©️-Roz-Pike-jpg.webp?w=768)