Every bit of theatre (2020)

Josh Coates
14 min readJan 3, 2021

Here’s a list of every bit of theatre I watched/read/took in/engaged with/vibes with/touched/felt/smelt/dealt/loved in 2020


1- The Antipodes by Annie Baker

2 — 9 to 5 The Musical by Dolly Parton

3 — Antigone by @holywhattheatre

4 — Mr Burns and Other Plays by Anne Washburn

5 — Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli. Directed by @EllenRMcDougall

6 — Shame by Eve Nicol

7 — Oreo by @TaniaCamara2

8 — Common Salt by Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer.

9 — Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Dury

10 — Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte adapted by Andrew Sheridan at @rxtheatre .

11 — Dance Nation by Clare Barron

12 — Ghost Stories by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman

13 — Insane Animals by Bourgeois and Maurice

14 — Me for the world by Molly Taylor, Ali Pidsley and Young Vic Taking part.

15 — Nora : A Doll’s House by Stef Smith

16 — work.txt by @NathanAna

17 — Lam Gods by Milo Rau

18 — Drie schwestern by Susanne Kennedy

19 — Uncanny Valley by Rimini Protokoll

20 — It’s All True by Object Collection

21 — Caspar Western Friedrich by Philippe Quesne

22 — Selected Plays by Alice Childress

23 — Le Salon by Peeping Tom

24 — Minefield by Lola Arias

25 — Roma Armee by Yael Ronen & Ensemble

26 — The Safe Use of Ladders + Stepladders by onlytheantscansaveusnow

27 — Talker by Spalding Gray with Kathy Acker

28 — Welcome to Caveland! by Philippe Quesne

29 — The Death at The Club by Candela Capitán

30 — Night of the Living Dead Remix by Imitating The Day

31 — Dead Class by Tadeusz Kantor

32 — Freedom Club by New Paradise Laboratories & The Riot Group

33 — Bronx Gothic by Okwui Okpokwasili

34 — Lenin by Milo Rau

35 — WE’RE IN HERE by John Doran

36 — Falling Into Place #1 by Forced Entertainment

37 — Manifestos from times of Crisis by Rosanna Irvine

38 — It Don’t Worry Me by ATRESBANDES with Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas

39 — Elision by Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir

40 — The Future Show by Deborah Pearson

41 — Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch

42 — Progress by Trip Hazards

43 — Gulp by MALAPROP

44- God is a DJ by Falk Richter

45 — Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber

46 — Inferno by Societas Raffaello Sanzio

47 — White Sun by Will Dickie

48 — MAGNIFICAT by Marta Górnicka

49 — Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams

50 — Swimming Pools ( Home Video ) by Sleepwalk Collective

51 — Wall of Tools Ensembly by Phala Ookeditse Phala, William Kentridge & Nhlanhla Mahlangu

52 — In Praise of Forgetting, Part 2 by Oliver Zahn

53 — Vanishing Points edited by Salome Wagaine

54 — While We Were Holding It Together by Ivana Müller

55 — Quotations from a Ruined City by Reza Abdoh

56 -We Are the King of Ventilators by Chris Thorpe, Tim Etchells and Jim Fletcher

57 — Show Me a Good Time by Gob Squd

58 — Farewell Cork by Secret Theatre

59 — Cannon Fodder by Dmitriy Volkostrelov and Pavel Pryazhko

60 — Tanya’s Birthday by Mārtiņš Eihe

61 — SWAGGA, A Study on Camera by Project O and Charlotte Cooper & Kay Hyatt

62 — Domestic presented by Word of Warning

63 — Dancing at Dusk — A moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring by Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation and École des Sables

64 — Let us stop this mad rush towards the end by Burrows & Fargion

65 — Mystery Magnet by Miet Warlop

66 — My White Best Friend ( and others letters left unsaid ) curated by Rachel De-Lahay and Milli Bhatia

67 — See-Through by Claire Gaydon

68 — A Conversation by Nigel and Louise

69 — Is God Is by Aleshea Harris

70 — seven methods of killing kylie jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones

71 — As Well as Can Be Expected presn eted by Dan Bye and co.

72 — Prayer by Rosie Elnile

73 — message not sent by yesyesnono

74 — Le Theatre des Negociations by Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius

75 — Dismantle by ThisEgg

76 — Code Blue by Blanka Zizka

77 — I’m Sorry by Jenni Jackson, Simone French, Tom Halls & Julia Levai

78 — Hermit by Alex Marlow

79 — This Trick is Called by Megan Arnold

80 — Shielders by Matilda Ibini

81 — Stories For The Wobbly Hearted by Daniel Kitson

82 — Declan, Directed by Lorn Macdonald with original text from Mouthpiece by Kieran Hurley

83 — In A Nutshell by Lost Dog

84 — NOT WORKING by onlytheantscansaveusnow

85 — The Future Show Coventry 2020 by Deborah Pearson, Snya Riaz, Nadira Sultana, Angela Mhlanga, Riya Parshad, Esther Adesanoye, Malizah, Mafalda Nunes, Sam Colby, Awandiswe Mkwananzi, Lanaire Aderemi, Lewis Goode and Chrissie Okorie

86 — The You Play : small acts by Rafaella Marcus

87 — Caretaker by Hester Chillingworth

88 — The Cost of Living by DV8

89 — Shipwreck by Anne Washburn

90 — Walking:Holding by Rosanna Cade

91 — perch by Katye Coe and Amy Voris

92 — Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery

93 — RE:seeding, in correspondence Performance to Camera by Jade Montserrat

94 — River Adur Duet by Emma Frankland

small hours by Ava Wong Davies

96 — ur favourite scary movie by Louise Orwin

97 — The Seagull on Sims 4 by Celine Song

98 — COLONASTICS by Joana Tischkau

99 — Kissing the Shotgun Goodnight by Christopher Brett Bailey

100 — Beyond Chinatown by New Earth Theatre

101 — Crave by Sarah Kane

102 — A Cakewalk by Audley Puglisi

103 — Circle Jerk by Fake Friends

104 — Pii Potti Potti by mrzb and Rin Suemitsu with Ivan Cheng and Tomic Mina

105 — A Musical Response to Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer by JARV IS…

106 -Next Time I’ll Sing to You by James Saunders

107 — _JEANNE_DARK_ by Marion Siéfert

108 — Heading Against The Wall by Cão Solteiro & André Godinho

109 — Drumming by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas & Ictus

110 — Fruit Salad Curated by Hannah Bridger , Emily Falvey , Lucas Morneau

111 — The End by Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas

112 — The Ghost Caller by Luke Barnes

113 — Learning to Swim on an Ironing Board by Conor A

114 — Last Gap WFH by Split Britches

115 — Lament for Sheku Bayoh by Hannah Lavery

116 — The Ultimate Residency by Paula Varjack

117 — Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda

118 — To Be A Machine ( Version 1.0 ) by Dead Centre

119 — Maelstrom Under Glass by Yewande 103

120 — Behind Your Eyeballs by Salma Said & Miriam Coretta Schulte

121 — The Kids Are Alright by Encounter

122 — Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcom

123 — All Of Me : The Twine by Caroline Horton & Alex Swift

124 — Dot. Dot. Dot by Daniel Kitson

125 — Kathe by Vishal Kumaraswamy

126 — All For One And One For The Money by Richard Siegal & Ballet of Difference

127 — Art Class by Andrea Luka Zimmerman

128 — Watch Me Fall by Action Hero

129 — Longline : A Documentary about Welfare State International

130 — Plue by Elinor Lewis and Joe Garbett

131 — </remnant> by Theatre Mitu

132 — This is Black 2.0 by Uproot Productions

133 — Materiality Will Be Rethought by Joe Moran

134 — An Interaction with Sand by William De Val Darby

135 — salt by Selina Thomspon

136 — Institute for Mediated Intimacy by Lena Chen & Michael Charles Neumann

137 — Swan Lake Bath Ballet by Corey Baker

138 — We Begin Again by National Theatre Public Acts

139 — LIKE WATER by Ballet Black

140 — Uranus by Moreno Solinas

141 — Them’s The Rules by Hester Chillingworth

142 — good dog by Arinzé Kene

143 — We Are Proud To Present… By Jackie Sibblies Dury

144 — Heavens What Have I Done by Miguel Gutierrez

145 — Show Me The Money by Paula Varjack

146 — Many Ways to Raise a Fist by Jerron Herman

147 — A Passion Play by Margaret Perry

148 — Monkey See Monkey Do by Richard Gadd

149 — Antidote by Marguerite Hemmings and LaJuné McMillian

150 — DONT TRY THIS AT HOME 3: EXERCISE 3 LESS by Nathan Birkinshaw

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