Prototype Festival: “Mary Motorhead/Trade” and “In Our Daughter’s Eyes”
It has been so challenging to write these reviews of three recent works presented as part of the...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 2nd Mar 2023 | Festivals, New York, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
It has been so challenging to write these reviews of three recent works presented as part of the...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 12th Jan 2023 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
On a cold November, New York Friday night, when temperatures approached freezing, the shivering audience waiting to experience Albert Camus’ The Fall at the Soho Playhouse checked in at the box office on the upper floor, then...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 10th Jan 2023 | Design, New York, Puppetry, Review, United States of America
The show Lazarus 1972-2022 is difficult to pin down. How can what a thought looks like be...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 3rd Jan 2023 | New York, Playwriting, Puppetry, South Korea, United States of America
The simplicity of the set was enriched with exquisite lighting design, by Oliver Wason, depicting the starry heavens above, exploding bombs, flocks of butterflies, even projections of characters.
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 31st May 2021 | Canada, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance
In August 2020, Battery Dance shifted its annual Battery Dance Festival to a virtual format. The...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 4th May 2021 | New York, Review, Theatre and Dance, United States of America
In five years, in ten years, in twenty, we will remember what it felt like to live through the...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 28th Mar 2021 | New York, Review, Theatre and Dance, United States of America
Earlier this month, the NY Times published an article entitled “What is a Ballet Body?” that...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 25th Mar 2021 | Ireland, Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Disability
The thing about UnRavelled is that it’s one of those plays that even a week after seeing it random...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 16th Feb 2021 | New York, News, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Dance, United States of America
Midway through the first episode of Isolation to Creation, a docuseries produced as part of this...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 31st Oct 2020 | Review, Theatre and Art, United States of America
To the right of the piano, hung on the far wall of the space, was the ravishing 103 x 172.5 inch acrylic on canvas. The Frankenthaler abstract painting dominated the space with a wash of undulating colors and shapes. Rothenberg opened with commentary about the connections between these two works of art explaining that while it’s challenging to talk about abstract works, as Baudelaire wrote, sometimes the combination of two difficult pieces can clarify and reveal the heart of the works.
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 16th Sep 2020 | Interview, New York, Playwriting, Polish Theatre Archives, United States of America
For theater, I like to give myself constraints. So for this, the constraint was that I wanted to write this for two people, partially because I love 2-person plays. There aren’t enough of them, and also, they’re so much more producible, and it’s amazing to watch two people pull something off, so I gave myself that challenge. It sort of opened up the door for me in terms of what the piece was going to be like stylistically – I wanted it to be a bunch of different genres and I wanted it to be ironic and funny and also heartfelt at the same time. That was all sort of outside-in thinking about this piece which isn’t always how it is, but helped me get into it. The more I worked on it, the more I have fallen in love with the characters and their story, but it frankly came about by thinking about the structure itself, and what I wanted to play to feel like and how I wanted it to be formed versus what it was actually going to be – form then content rather than the other way around.
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 29th Aug 2020 | Boston, Covid-19, Review, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
The Boston Experimental Theatre (BET) has created a production that manages to reflect our odd,...
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