Welcome to Fail Better Productions

Fail Better Productions is a growing collective of young theatre artists that strive for intensity and detail in textually rich and visually arresting performance.

News:

Fail Better Beckett Season

We have been honouring the 20th anniversary of the author's death through a series of events this 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 has been engaged with the BeckettLab practice-as-research project and the academic symposium Beckett and the Brain.

Five Star Edinburgh Show

Diary of a Madman played at Underbelly as part of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Broadway Baby gave the show a five-star review and Time Out London declared Fail Better 'the returning champion'. Other press included:

"... remarkably punchy ... strikingly inventive ... a truly gripping piece of theatre." **** Fest

"A powerful and moving piece of theatre." **** Three Weeks

We co-ordinated the first New Work Festival at Warwick University which showcased student pieces, visiting companies and our Persephone Project.

Digital materials relating to last year's Lorca project are now available as free downloads on itunesU (just type 'lorca' into itunes store for free download 'Beyond Spanish').

The New Statesman have published the article Translating Lorca discussing our recent production of Play without a Title alongside the Belgrade's The House of Bernarda Alba.

In Autumn 2008, we performed Lorca's Play Without a Title at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry on Saturday 1^st November as part of their Lorca symposium Beyond Spanish: The Many Lorcas. This new translation by the award-winning David Johnston and has now been published by Oberon Books.