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 Fragments

We will be opening up our archive to the Warwick Student Ensemble and inviting audience members into a different kind of theatre museum on Saturday 21st April 2012. Book through IATL.

Fail Better at Pegasus, Oxford

Our first scientific project was created in Oxford at Pegasus; a work-in-progress showing of Endlessness took place on Saturday 1st October at 8pm.

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 new film about our Residency at The CAPITAL Centre:

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New Work Festival 2010

Friday 30th April to Saturday 1st May

24 hours of lively action, participation and celebration surrounded a unique cycle of performance projects at Warwick University's CAPITAL Centre.

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

Digital materials relating to the 2008 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 1st 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.
[Play without a Title] [Diary of a Madman] [Discords]
[Discords] [Play without a Title] [Diary of a Madman]
[Stasis: Beckett Shorts] [Persephone] [Discords]
[Endlessness] [Diary of a Madman] [Play without a Title]
[Play without a Title] [Echo & Narcissus] [Crave]
[Stasis: Beckett Shorts] [Play without a Title] [Phaedra's Love]
[Head] [Phaedra's Love] [Stasis: Beckett Shorts]