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Maria Aberg, artistic director of Projekt Europa, tells Natasha Tripney about how The Stage award-winning company was born from the closures of the pandemic and the vital work it does with migrant ...
Director Maria Aberg, who is just starting rehearsals for her latest RSC show, almost thwarted her chances of working with the company at all. As we chat at the National Theatre, she is recalling an ...
Q&A: Maria Aberg What was your first non-theatre job? Working for my dad’s business, which made shop fittings for stores such as H&M. My sister, my brother and I used to spend the summer welding ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Director Maria Aberg explains how she rose to the challenge by creating her own company, buoyed by the solidarity shown by Europe’s theatremakers Early in March 2020 I met up with a friend in a ...
Director Maria Aberg has urged the industry not to "overlook" a rise in xenophobic sentiment in the UK. She said those in theatre had a responsibility to address the "real problem" of racism and ...
So why cast a living, breathing drag queen in the role? It’s all in the service of director Maria Aberg’s determinedly anti-realist, subversive approach, which she uses to breathe new life ...
Maria Aberg on her new production of The White Devil, part of the RSC's Roaring Girls season. Rosie Garland and Jayne Headon-Meldrum on changing sexual identity. Presented by Jenni Murray.
Maria Aberg has done it again. The way she could make an incredibly tasteful use of balloons and confetti in King John last year, she has now succeeded in creating an enchanted forest of Arden ...