Welcome to Fail Better Productions
Fail Better Productions is a collective of theatre artists that strive for intensity and detail in textually rich and visually arresting performance.
News:
End/Lessness
Fail Better 2013-16
During this period we developed new projects in Bristol, Coventry, Dublin and Oxford.
This website documents our work 2001-12.
Beckett and Brain Science
Fail Better Fragments
We opened up our archive to the IATL Student Ensemble and invited audience members into a different kind of theatre museum on Saturday 21st April 2012.
Video documentation available here.
Fail Better at Pegasus, Oxford
Fail Better at Warwick Arts Centre
We performed a special double-bill of Diary of a Madman and Discords to celebrate our tenth anniversary at Warwick Arts Centre.
Residency at Warwick University
Please watch this film about our Residency at The CAPITAL Centre:
Watch it nowNew Work Festival 2010
Beckett Season 2009
We honoured the 20th anniversary of the author's death through a series of events in our 2009 season. Stasis (Rough for Theatre II and Ohio Impromptu by Samuel Beckett) was revived at Oxford Playhouse with performances last month.
At Warwick University, our student ensemble engaged with the BeckettLab practice-as-research project and the academic symposium Beckett and the Brain.
Lorca Project 2008
The New Statesman have published the article Translating Lorca discussing our production of Play Without a Title alongside the Belgrade's The House of Bernarda Alba.
![[Play without a Title]](./collage/lorca1.jpg "Play without a Title")
![[Diary of a Madman]](./collage/madman3.jpg "Diary of a Madman")
![[Discords]](./collage/discords1.jpg "Discords")
![[Fail Better Fragments]](./collage/fragments-2.jpg "Fail Better Fragments")
![[Play without a Title]](./collage/lorca3.jpg "Play without a Title")
![[Diary of a Madman]](./collage/madman5.jpg "Diary of a Madman")
![[Stasis: Beckett Shorts]](./collage/rough2.jpg "Stasis: Beckett Shorts
(Rough for Theatre II)")
![[Fail Better Fragments]](./collage/fragments-3.jpg "Fail Better Fragments")
![[Discords]](./collage/discords3.jpg "Discords")
![[Endlessness]](./collage/endlessness2.jpg "Endlessness")
![[Persephone]](./collage/persephone4.jpg "Persephone")
![[Play without a Title]](./collage/lorca4.jpg "Play without a Title")
![[Play without a Title]](./collage/lorca2.jpg "Play without a Title")
![[Echo & Narcissus]](./collage/echo2.jpg "Echo & Narcissus")
![[Fail Better Fragments]](./collage/fragments-1.jpg "Fail Better Fragments")
![[Stasis: Beckett Shorts]](./collage/rough1.jpg "Stasis: Beckett Shorts
(Rough for Theatre II)")
![[Play without a Title]](./collage/lorca5.jpg "Play without a Title")
![[Phaedra's Love]](./collage/phaedra4.jpg "Phaedra's Love")
![[Head]](./collage/head1.jpg "Head")
![[Phaedra's Love]](./collage/phaedra2.jpg "Phaedra's Love")
![[Stasis: Beckett Shorts]](./collage/ohio1.jpg "Stasis: Beckett Shorts
(Ohio Impromptu)")
![[Discords]](./collage/discords2.jpg "Discords")
![[Diary of a Madman]](./collage/madman4.jpg "Diary of a Madman")
![[Crave]](./collage/crave2.jpg "Crave")