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:

We are reviving our devised adaptation of Diary of a Madman at The Underbelly as part of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Daily performances from 16^th-30^th August (1.25pm).

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.

We recently 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. Our production was seen alongside The House of Bernarda Alba directed by the internationally-acclaimed Gadi Roll. Both plays are new translations by the award-winning David Johnston and have been published together by Oberon Books.

In 2007 The CAPITAL Centre (co-established by Warwick University and the RSC) invited us to stage Stasis: Beckett Shorts at their opening festival in May. We then brought this production back to Warwick for their Beckett and Visual Culture Conference in November.

Recently named 'Best Fringe Show of 2007' (Tamara Gausi in Time Out) our devised adaptation of Gogol's Diary of a Madman had a three-week run at the Rosemary Branch Theatre, London. Audiences and critics admired Chris Tester's "absorbing performance in this Beckettian drama" (Time Out London).

We returned to the Rosemary Branch in November to close their new work festival with a rehearsed reading of Persephone.