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In darkness, a quiet sobbing, acutely intimate in the vastness of the Barbican main stage. Now...
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A young boy from Nepal snatched away from his home in the Himalayas, now lives in a big slum in...
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Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
Tom Morton-Smith’s “Ravens: Spassky Vs Fischer” at the Hampstead Theatre: Real-Life Cold War Chess Match
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Life on the Road: Mauricio Kartun’s “La vis cómica/A Humorous Streak”
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Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” Explores Colonialism, Resistance and Liberation
Last winter, at the Studio Theatre at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Canadian actor...
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“Happy Days” at Theatre Kingston
The works of modern Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, largely absurdist and tragicomic in scope,...
An Interview with Stan Lai on “The Village,” His Artistic Vision, and Hong Kong
US-born, Taiwan-raised theatre director and playwright Stan Lai (Lai Sheng-chuan) has enjoyed...
Celebrating Dramaturgy in the UK: The 2019 Kenneth Tynan Award
Founded in 2001, the Dramaturgs’ Network is the only organization in the United Kingdom solely...
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Cultural Participation Policies: A Poverty of Ambitions
This series of articles was commissioned in preparation for the IETM Plenary Meeting in Rijeka,...
Tom Morton-Smith’s “Ravens: Spassky Vs Fischer” at the Hampstead Theatre: Real-Life Cold War Chess Match
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Tadashi Suzuki’s “Cyrano de Bergerac”: East and West Under the Umbrella
This year is a special one for the Theatre Olympics. For in it’s touring, it is comprised of two...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019: “Interbeing – Stories Of A Current War”, Cockpit Theatre: Putting A Forgotten War Back Into The Spotlight
“There are bombardments constantly on the outskirts of Donetsk, while in central Donetsk they...
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PQ 2019: Noise Music
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Participation in European Theatre: An Account of the European Theatre Conference, Dresden 2019
For the most part, theatre can be recognized as the art of the collective. The ETC (European...
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“An Iliad:” A Retelling of the Horrors of War Beyond Troy!
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“The Black History Museum…According to the United States of America”
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“Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story,” an Exploration of Resilience
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Denying A Harsh Reality in “The History of Violence”
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Kai Tuchmann on Dramaturgy and Digital Realities
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A Russian in Hong Kong – Kristina Pakhomova and “Lady Death”
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A Transgender Theatre Group Focuses on the Lives of Fellow Members Through a Play
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Fairview is a scorching minefield that looks like a green meadow. At long last, London audiences...
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