Celebrating the Evergreen Hero: Legendary Kathakali Artist Kalamandalam Gopi
As legendary Kathakali artiste Kalamandalam Gopi turned 80, a four-day fete was organised in...
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Month: June 2017
Boylesque Redefines Burlesque and Masculinity
Burlesque is an art form that has polarized Western society for centuries. In his 1991 publication...
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Transmedia Storytelling in the Performing Arts, a New Grammar to be Learned: An Interview with Belén Santa-Olalla
Belén Santa-Olalla has a BA in Media Practice and Theory from Sussex University, Brighton. She...
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Contemporary Estonian Drama
Land of Drama With almost one million theatre visits per year from a population of only 1.3...
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Сryout With Precisely Measured Silence
Theater Vinora shows Women’s Voices, performance with elements of storytelling, based on...
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Pondering Over the Division between North and South Korea, Kim Eunsung’s “Sister Mok-Rahn” Greets New York
On Sunday, May 7, Korean playwright Kim Eunsung’s Sister Mok-Rahn was given a staged reading at...
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Stories of Diversity: An Interview with Martyna Majok
Martyna Majok is a young playwright whose new play, Cost of Living, has just opened in a Manhattan...
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Man / Woman / Monster: Franco Branciaroli Re-creates “Medea”
Twenty years ago, on 13 December 1996, Euripides’ Medea debuted in Bergamo (Teatro Donizetti): for...
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Taking a Ride on a “Red Bike”
Against the roar of asphalt and a set of wheels, a child looks out onto the horizon and tries to...
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How Far Should We Go When Depicting Violence on Stage?
Last year, London audiences have been horrified by the violence shown on stage in the National...
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The Novel and Play That Predicted Donald Trump’s Rise
The performing arts and politics have an uneasy relationship. From Aristophanes satirizing the...
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Film Artist Julian Rosefeldt: “Manifesto” and “Masquerade”
A feature on film artist Julian Rosefeldt’s most recent work, Manifesto.
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“I, Wu Song”: A One-Man Cantonese Opera – Without Songs or Words
Anyone familiar with Chinese opera would recognise the role Kelvin Ng Kwok-wa is playing next....
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The Economics of War in “The Spartan Conspiracy” at Akshara Theatre
Ajit Chitturi’s The Spartan Conspiracy brings to fore how the desire to control resources dictates...
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“Common:” Difficult To Follow And Nihilistic At The Wrong Time
History is a tricky harlot. She is bought and sold, fought for and thrown over, seduced and...
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“Indika” Is A Cross-Cultural Artistic Experiment Of A Snippet Of India’s History
Although they are unlikely to be exhibited in India, auteur Sankar Venkateswaran’s recent exploits...
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The Italian Village That Plays Itself Onstage
In the Italian region of Siena, perched on top of a hill, sits the sleepy village of...
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Dharma Drama: Peter Brook’s “Battlefield”
“An enemy is someone whose story you have not yet heard,” advised my dear friend Rabbi Arthur...
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Autotheatre in Poland as a Form of Institutional Critique
During the last two seasons we have been observing a distinctive trend of political theatre that...
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It is almost trite to list the assortment of horrors presented in the American news lately. Each morning now involves the morbid task of opening the New York Times to find out which awful event- or statement- occurred over the...
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