The Beyond Borders mini-season, supported by Arts Council England, is showing from 13-25 March at Omnibus Theatre. Sarah Chew is the writer and director of Lipstick: A Fairytale of Modern Iran. In 2010, just after the failed Green Uprising (the political movement that arose after the 2009 Iranian presidential election,…
We sat down with theatre-veteran and star of our upcoming staging of Wallace Shawn's The Fever, Paola Dionisotti to talk about her relationship with the theatre and her part in the HBO monster-hit Game of Thrones... OMNIBUS THEATRE: How did your career in acting begin Paola? PAOLA DIONISOTTI: Okay! Well I was born in Turin…
We sat down with Marie McCarthy, Artistic Director of the Omnibus Theatre, ahead of International Women's Day to ask her a few questions. OMNIBUS THEATRE: Hi Marie, how will you be spending this International Women’s Day? MARIE MCCARTHY: I'll be here, working. OT: Which female theatre makers have influenced or inspired you?…