About

Honest Theatre Guide covers amateur theatre-making: choosing material, exploring scenes, shaping a production and sharing a performance. It is for people who want to make theatre with others, whether they are starting out or returning to the room after a break.

The work behind the moment

A performance may look effortless, but it grows through small, practical decisions: where a chair goes, when a pause holds, or what an audience needs to understand. We take those decisions seriously without pretending there is one right way to make a show.

Ideas to try, not rules to obey

Our articles explain approaches and invite readers to test them in context. A rehearsal exercise that opens up one scene may fall flat in another. We aim to describe what an idea is for, what it asks of a group and what might be worth changing.

A place for curious makers

The publication is for actors, directors, writers, backstage helpers and anyone interested in how theatre gets made. We focus on choices readers can consider themselves, rather than advice that depends on credentials or local rules.