Royal Court Living Newspaper Clippings

Living Newspaper Clippings, is a series of conversations between some of the writers and artists who are creating Living Newspaper at the Royal Court Theatre.

Writers and musicians Jammz (Poet in da Corner) and Nazareth Hassan (VANTABLACK) discuss their work for Living Newspaper Editions 1 and 2, how they approached creating their pieces for Living Newspaper, the survival of club spaces during the pandemic, and where theatre and music intersect and divide.

You can watch extracts from Edition 1 and Edition 2 at royalcourttheatre.com/living-newspaper-clippings.

This conversation has been transcribed and can be accessed here.

Living Newspaper Clippings, is a series of conversations between some of the writers and artists who are creating Living Newspaper at the Royal Court Theatre.

Writers Ruby Thomas (Either) and Chris Thorpe (Victory Condition) wrote for The Weather Room of the Living Newspaper, in Edition 2 and Edition 1 respectively. In the Living Newspaper, The Weather Room is an installation designed to evoke changing weather states and is a space to contemplate our own impact on the climate crisis.

In this episode, Ruby and Chris discuss creating their pieces for Living Newspaper, and writing about the climate crisis and climate justice for theatre.

You can watch extracts from The Weather Room at royalcourttheatre.com/living-newspaper-clippings.

A written transcript of this conversation is available on our website.

“One of the things that I was thinking about is that, conspiracies just tend to take on the kind of anxieties of the age that they’re conceived in.”

Living Newspaper Clippings, is a series of conversations between some of the writers and artists who are creating Living Newspaper at the Royal Court Theatre.

In this episode, writers Katherine Soper and Daniel York Loh talk about the the role of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and social media, and how this influenced their pieces in Edition 1 of Living Newspaper.

You can watch extracts from performances of The Con-Troll Room by Katherine Soper and hungry for a lie by Daniel York Loh at royalcourttheatre.com/living-newspaper-clippings.

A written transcript of this conversation is available on our website.

Living Newspaper Clippings, is a series of conversations between some of the writers and artists who are creating Living Newspaper at the Royal Court Theatre.

In this episode, writers Emteaz Hussain and Jasmine Lee-Jones talk about the role of writing for self-reflection and transformation and how they responded to, and wrote for, the Obituaries section of the Living Newspaper.

The obituaries section of Living Newspaper is a site to remember, reminisce, and rejoice in the memory of people, places and things that may have been lost this year.

You can watch extracts from performances of Obituaries by Jasmine Lee-Jones (Edition 1) and Strawberries by Emteaz Hussain (Edition 2) at royalcourttheatre.com/living-newspaper-clippings.

A written transcript of this conversation is available on our website.

Living Newspaper Clippings, is a series of conversations between some of the writers and artists who are creating Living Newspaper at the Royal Court Theatre.

Writers Anchuli Felicia King and Tife Kusoro discuss creating Aunties for Royal Court Living Newspaper Edition 2. Felicia’s ‘Protest Aunties’ and Tife’s ‘WhatsApp Aunty’ took over spaces of the Royal Court building to explore how different groups create alternative communities through disseminating (mis)information, using digital technologies, and taking to the streets to protest.

Watch excerpts from the scenes written by Anchuli Felicia King and Tife Kusoro at: https://royalcourttheatre.com/living-newspaper-clippings/

A written transcript of this conversation is available on our website.

Director Milli Bhatia and writer Temi Wilkey discuss creating the Horoscopes section in Edition 1 of the Royal Court Living Newspaper, and using astrology as a site for connection, intimacy and comfort .

Read excerpts from the horoscopes written by Temi and find out more about Living Newspaper here.

The Horoscopes section of the Living Newspaper is an interactive space which offers audience members a reading of what their future might hold.

A full transcript of this conversation can be accessed here.

Actor Lisa Hammond and writer Tom Wells discuss making ‘Ghosting’, the dating column in Edition 2 of the Royal Court Living Newspaper.

Watch excerpts from scenes discussed by Lisa and Tom and find out more about Living Newspaper here.

Royal Court-ing is the dating section of the Living Newspaper and is a space to congregate and witness as a new love blossoms each week in real life.

A full transcript of this conversation can be accessed here.

Writer Mark Ravenhill and designer Shankho Chaudhuri discuss working on the cartoon in Edition 2 of the Royal Court Living Newspaper.

Watch excerpts from scenes discussed by Mark and Shankho – Living Newspaper Edition 2 here.

For each edition of Royal Court Living Newspaper, a writer is invited to create a cartoon, and use the building space for satire through the lens of a newspaper cartoon – realising the piece through cut-outs, speech bubbles, timber, and found objects made in the scenery dock each week.

A full transcript of this conversation can be accessed here.