Blogs – Upstart Theatre

Resilience is fun, honest!

We spend a lot of time in the arts talking about ‘resilience’. Is it just code for doing more stuff with less […]

A chalkboard map. In the corner is a scoreboard showing a contest between the USA and USSR

Red Planet: Revolution design diary – part 1

Making our critically-acclaimed interactive show started with looking at one from the archives…

What is interactivity?

Games are interactive. How can we make that interaction most satisfying audiences?

A page in a word processor. It reads: 'This blank page is freaking me out'

How to kick the habits of bad writing

My partner read my post about what makes a game last week and said she loved it, but it committed two cardinal […]

Keeping the lights on?

Just how much are artists supposed to do to keep going?

What is a game?

Upstart Theatre makes theatre playable – which means we use game design skills to make our shows. So exactly is a game, anyway?

The power of opening spaces

How can venues open up to the artists in their community?

What is “playable theatre”?

“Playable theatre” is the name we use for the kind of theatre we make. But what exactly is it?

International Playable Theatre Lab – what we learned

We’re excited to be publishing the Evaluation Report on the first ever International Playable Theatre Lab! This two-week digital residency brought together […]