So here’s something a little personal: I don’t like being lectured. Who does? No one likes being told that they are wrong, let alone being told something that they already know, at length. For me, the same applies to art. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that you can’t address an issue that you […]

Starting up as a theatre company is hard, not just because you’re essentially setting up a business but because, to begin with, there is rejection to be faced. Of course, we weren’t naive in thinking this wouldn’t happen. In the performing arts rejection is rife and more often than not, as a new company, you […]

It’s been a pretty eventful week for all of us here at Rendered Retina and we have had the pleasure of supervising workshops for young people. It was extremely rewarding for us to see skills being passed on to the next generation of performers but it brought up a very interesting issue, one that can’t […]

We have been incredibly lucky over the past week to be able to watch not one, but TWO fantastic pieces of theatre during the time between consulting A Level Drama students on their exam pieces and rehearsals of our own; These pieces being Gecko’s ‘Institute’ and Complicite’s ‘The Encounter’. Now, the point of this entry […]

Anyone with a passion for making performance will tell you that it is their dream to ‘make it’ as a director, performer, producer etc. and we here at Rendered Retina are no different; our dream is to create and perform theatre for a living. However, in the current climate and taking into account all the […]