Fergus Morgan
@FergusMorgan
Theatre journalist. Scotland correspondent for @TheStage. Words @StageDirectorsUK @FT, and elsewhere. The Crush Bar newsletter: https://thecrushbar.substack.com
I think that is pretty much it for me on here, like a lot of other folk. I'll be posting about my work @TheStage and elsewhere - including my newsletter - on the new place from now on. Come find me on there.
I caught up with @FergusMorgan to chat @JSTheatre, @theAtticist, and designing Tender at @bushtheatre which opens next week!
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat... - a chat with @DavidMJTDoyle, exec producer @JSTheatre and freelance lighting designer, currently @BushTheatre - three show recommendations for next week @shittheatre, @PlayPiePint, @royalcourt Link to read/subscribe in bio.
I love reading The Crush Bar every week but really treasuring this one which asks such good questions of the extraordinary @DavidMJTDoyle who does 19000 things but always starts from the play.
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat... - a chat with @DavidMJTDoyle, exec producer @JSTheatre and freelance lighting designer, currently @BushTheatre - three show recommendations for next week @shittheatre, @PlayPiePint, @royalcourt Link to read/subscribe in bio.
"Jermyn Street Theatre was set up as a place where artists could afford to make work and audiences could afford to see it, and that is still what we are trying to do." Read @DavidMJTDoyle's interview in @FergusMorgan's The Crush Bar chatting all things Jermyn Street Theatre.💥
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat... - a chat with @DavidMJTDoyle, exec producer @JSTheatre and freelance lighting designer, currently @BushTheatre - three show recommendations for next week @shittheatre, @PlayPiePint, @royalcourt Link to read/subscribe in bio.
Episode four of my podcast, A History Of Scottish Drama In Six Plays, is out now. It focuses on the seminal @traversetheatre season of 1985 - and on Jo Clifford's Losing Venice in particular. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Previewing from next week, with many performances already sold out. @DavidMJTDoyle talks to @FergusMorgan at ‘The Crush Bar’ about his work as lighting designer on ‘Tender’ by @eleanortindall_ @bushtheatre thecrushbar.substack.com
Three episodes of my podcast on the history of Scottish drama are already out... three more to come, plus that live discussion feat. @MarkFFisher, @islacowan, @gaznicholls, and Nicola McCartney. Made with @traversetheatre, @Bespoken_UK, @ssp_playwrights, and @NTSonline.
Are you caught up with the first three episodes of A History of Scottish Drama in Six Plays? 🎙️Ep 1. A Satire of the Three Estates 🎙️Ep 2. Men Should Weep 🎙️Ep 3. The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil Listen here: traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event…
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"Stuff is coming back. Exeunt. Miss Saigon. Fascism. Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire." This week's issue of Shouts and Murmurs - my weekly bit for paid supporters of The Crush Bar - just got sent out. Read and subscribe via the link in my bio.
John McGrath’s legendary The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil is the focus of this week’s episode of @FergusMorgan’s A History of Scottish Drama in Six Plays Featuring clips from our 2018 production directed by Joe Douglas & chat from OG cast member Bill Paterson👇
‘We started the wrong act and somehow had to get back to Act II’ Celebrated Shakespearean actor Oliver Ford Davies tells The Stage about biding his time when it came to playing lead roles and why he felt compelled to play Malvolio in Twelfth Night 👇 thestage.co.uk/features/olive…
Review Round-up: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the Ambassadors Theatre – Does Fitzgerald’s fabulous fable find favour with the critics? Will audiences be bowled over by Benjamin Button? @TCCOBBmusical 👇 thestage.co.uk/review-round-u…
Episode 3 - The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil is now live 🎙️ 🏴 In this episode we go back to the 1970s with John McGrath's iconic play, featuring discussion with Bill Paterson. podfollow.com/scottishdrama/…
So delighted to have our show highlighted by @FergusMorgan in The Crush Bar. Only 3 days until we open at @arcolatheatre 🚀🚀🚀 🎟️:arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/dista…
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat. a chat with @ollyhawesss, whose exhilarating, unnerving show F**king Legend is @RiversideLondon from Weds. Plus there are three show recommendations @arcolatheatre, @traversetheatre, @newdiorama. Link to read/subscribe in my bio.
I wouldn't have seen @ollyhawesss thrilling show at the Fringe if it hadn't been for the @FergusMorgan top 10 rec, so extremely glad it's come full circle with this interview. Buy a ticket, the show's really quite brilliant - riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/fki…
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat. a chat with @ollyhawesss, whose exhilarating, unnerving show F**king Legend is @RiversideLondon from Weds. Plus there are three show recommendations @arcolatheatre, @traversetheatre, @newdiorama. Link to read/subscribe in my bio.
Thanks @fergusmorgan for the shout out! Go and read about some excellent new theatre right here 👇🏼
This week's issue of The Crush Bar is out, feat. a chat with @ollyhawesss, whose exhilarating, unnerving show F**king Legend is @RiversideLondon from Weds. Plus there are three show recommendations @arcolatheatre, @traversetheatre, @newdiorama. Link to read/subscribe in my bio.