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Waiting in the Wings is all about theatre for young people - all those waiting in the wings for their next theatre class or drama lesson - and who knows when that will be? New content will be added every day and within our forums there is space to share news, views and tips.

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2.22? Boo 22 more like!

WARNING SPOILERS Oh dear. Another huge disappointment! And I'm really sorry to be posting another negative review as I'd love you all to...

The Mirror and the Light - review

Well that was a bit of a disappoinment. When we saw the first two parts of the trilogy at the RSC a few years ago we thought here was...

Long time, no see...

Yes it's been a while! We've been very focused on geting our face-to-face classes up and running under all the Covid guidelines. Across...

Interim new normal?

At time of writing we at Best are sitting on our hands waiting for the Government to pronounce on holiday clubs for the summer. Will they...

Crisis at drama schools

We know at relatively close quarters what drama students are going through at the moment. The training you receive at drama school is of...

A steep learning curve

The virus shutdown happened to completely and so fast that it gave no time for planning, speculating or strategising. Since then most...

Let me count the ways...

One of the most challenging parts of staging a Shakespeare play is the setting. When/why/how etc. It's rare nowadays to see the plays...

It should be me up there...

The famous wail of every actor, but sometimes... Just watching the streaming of Anthony and Cleopatra from the National Theatre. I...

Best play ever? pt5: The Encounter

I booked this on a total whim - I'd always heard great things about Complicite and Simon McBurney in particular and it menitoned in the...

Cumbiller v Leemerbatch

It was fantastic to see the two versions of 'Frankenstein' from the National Thetre over the last coupole of nights. And what was...

Theatre becomes democratic

It's been sad but equally fascinating to see how theatre has reacted to the lockdown. Sad? Because so much hard work by so many people...

Full belt

It's been very interesting to see the ways in which actors have to cope technically with different theatre spaces in the streamed shows...

Best play ever? pt5: Red Noses

In 1985 Annette and I went to the Barbican, where the RSC were resident at the time, to see a new play by Peter Barnes - Red Noses. A...

So near and yet so far...

In 2018 Best's youth theatre group TheBYTE rejoined the National Theatre Connections programme and chose 'These Bridges' by Phoebe...

It's a Mystery...

Easter time is traditionally associated with the performance of Mystery Plays. One of the earliest established forms of drama in western...

The lockdown story so far

How are you all doing out there? I don't think we've ever been busier here at Best HQ; finding new ways to communicate with people, ...

Our National Theatre Adventure: pt3

Annette and I went to meet the National Theatre team who would be helping us. We were somewhat taken aback to find around 30 people in...

Listening...

Christian Bevan, final year student at LAMDA writes... It’s a phrase often said to actors. Listen. I got the note during a recent...

Our National Theatre Adventure: pt2

The Boy Preference was ready to go. Unusually for us we had a powerful tech team to - Jack Wills on lighting, Cristabel Gordon stage...

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