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We were struck recently by a post on social media from a brilliant performer, endlessly creative, filled with ideas. But now she has a...

In 2015, we began working on what would become 5 out of 10 Men, a show that emerged from a year-long exploration of male suicide,...

Who needs theatre and art galleries when it's spring in the city? The streets are bursting with drama. Colour is all around is, if we can...

There are an infinite number of ways of making theatre - solos, big casts, small casts, huge cast, star vehicles, text vehicles, tech...

The critics say it's bad art. But does it matter what they say? Legendary Scottish-Italian artist Jack Vettriano died this week aged 73....

We produced Blush of Dogs  10 years ago this year. In our last post about our journey, we remembered the process of leaving drama school,...

Every love story is the same. Every love story is unique. Artists have explored this most intangible of relations between human beings...

Leaving drama school, like leaving university, is a step into the unknown. One moment, life is relentless. Then, suddenly, it’s over. No...

Regular horror films immerse us in exaggerated violence and terrifying supernatural encounters that actually protect us from the real...

We've written in previous blogposts about how Planter's was written, and about how Fragen ideas emerged during that process. In this...

We watched Nyad the other day, a fine biopic of long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad who swam an astonishing 110 miles from Cuba to Florida...

We’ve been going back through our archives, looking at old pictures, sifting through notes, recollecting various experiences from the...

We’ve been rewatching Twin Peaks recently, over the last few weeks. We watched David Lynch: Art Life for the first time just the other...

In 2014, Planter’s Island marked the birth of the Fragen approach to theatre: a philosophy rooted in curiosity, self-examination, and the...

Muholi V by Zanele Muholi, Tate Modern, 2024 Empedocles said that, “God is a circle whose centre is everywhere, and whose circumference...

“All you need for theatre,” Peter Brook wrote in The Empty Space, “is someone crossing an empty space while someone else watches.” That...

Since 2019, Fragen Network has been on hiatus. That year, Paul Reynolds, the father of our Artistic Director Roland, became terminally...