Other News & Updates - Jeni Whittaker

As You Like It and the screening phenomenon

July 31, 2023February 26, 2016

Just saw the National Theatre’s As You Like It in the local cinema in Falmouth. What an extraordinary boon to us hicks who live out in the sticks. Of course, doing what I do, I try to see as much good live theatre as I can, but it’s often a long way. Even the wonderful …

I might be the worst person to accompany to the theatre

July 31, 2023November 27, 2015

I think it might be so many years as an examiner – seventeen of them and then several more as a University external examiner and more still as a festival adjudicator – but what that taught me is to have eyes that constantly swivelled around the playing space noting everything: costumes, props, lighting, set, sound …