Who Was Mary? And How Plausible is Colm Tóibín’s Reconstruction of Her?
Colm Tóibín’s play and the Booker-nominated novella The Testament of Mary aims to “demythologise”...
Read MorePosted by Joel Hodge | 31st Jan 2017 | Australia, Essay, Ireland, Sydney
Colm Tóibín’s play and the Booker-nominated novella The Testament of Mary aims to “demythologise”...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 31st Jan 2017 | Festivals, India, News
A crowd-funding campaign that has quietly been doing the rounds of theatre circles is now...
Read MorePosted by Svetlana Ulanovskaya | 31st Jan 2017 | Belarus, Review, Theatre and Dance
During the last decade, two interconnected processes of legalization and professionalization have...
Read MorePosted by Bauke Lievens | 30th Jan 2017 | Belgium, Essay
“Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous form of...
Read MorePosted by Alice Jones | 30th Jan 2017 | London, News, Review, United Kingdom
The Hypocrite Could this be the new One Man, Two Guvnors? Richard Bean is back, with a riotous new...
Read MorePosted by Lola Proaño Gomez | 29th Jan 2017 | Ecuador, Festivals, News
On November 17–27, 2016, Loja, considered the cultural capital of Ecuador because of its long...
Read MorePosted by Alexandra Guzeva - Russia Beyond the Headlines | 29th Jan 2017 | Adaptation, News, Russia
The Vakhtangov Theatre’s interpretation of Leo Tolstoy’s famous novel, Anna Karenina, is...
Read MorePosted by Rachel E. Diken | 28th Jan 2017 | New York, Review, United States of America
A brief—dashed, if you will—argument for the relevance, humanness, and endearment of themes in...
Read MorePosted by Ramona Taranu | 28th Jan 2017 | Japan, Review
Current Location (Genzaichi in Japanese), written and directed by Okada Toshiki, founder of the...
Read MorePosted by Mara Valderrama | 28th Jan 2017 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Gender
TNT El Vacie is one of the most unique theatre companies in Spain. This group of Gypsy illiterate...
Read MorePosted by Maria Pia Pagani | 27th Jan 2017 | Review, Russia
Born in Kharkov on 12 November 1937, Mikhail Berman-Tsikinovsky is a Russian-speaking émigré who...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Jan 2017 | Adaptation, Review, United Kingdom
Theatre conventions are a funny thing. Nowadays, it’s actually quite difficult to see a modern...
Read MorePosted by Philippa Wehle | 26th Jan 2017 | New York, News, Translation, United States of America
Two shows recently seen at the Under The Radar festival in New York gave me the opportunity to...
Read MorePosted by Meron Langsner | 26th Jan 2017 | Stage Combat
Surprisingly, in the early stages of studying stage combat, a martial arts background is often an...
Read MorePosted by Kasia Lech | 26th Jan 2017 | News, Poland, Theatre and Politics
The year 2016 was marked by theatre artists resisting narratives imposed by the Polish government...
Read MorePosted by Zoukak Theatre Company | 25th Jan 2017 | Essay, Lebanon, Theatre and Politics
THE BATTLE SCENE SCORE The stage is a raft on water. On stage, there are remains of a shipwreck:...
Read MorePosted by Marié-Heleen Coetzee | 25th Jan 2017 | Directing, Essay, South Africa
South African Indian actor and director Gopala Davies’s production of Les Cenci: A Story About...
Read MorePosted by Marjan Moosavi | 25th Jan 2017 | Iran, News
The highlights of Iranian theatre in the last 12 months (1394–1395 Persian calendar) include...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Jan 2017 | Essay, United Kingdom
Whether or not it really is a foreign country, the past has a tendency to feel like it’s a long...
Read MorePosted by Maria Pia Pagani | 24th Jan 2017 | Design, Essay, Italy
Ten years ago, on 26 January 2007, Emanuele Luzzati died, in Genua. He was one of Italian...
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