“Five Easy Pieces”: Milo Rau’s Extraordinary Work About Child Murderer
It’s not often that a children’s theatre features a piece about a pedophile and child...
Read MoreDuška Radosavljević is a writer, dramaturg and academic. She is the author of the award-winning Theatre-Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century (2013) and editor of The Contemporary Ensemble (2013) and Theatre Criticism: Changing Landscapes (2016). She teaches at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 15th May 2018 | Belgium, London, Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
It’s not often that a children’s theatre features a piece about a pedophile and child...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 9th Mar 2018 | Adaptation, London, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The idea here is both exquisitely complex and wonderfully simple. On the one hand, Chris Goode’s...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 27th Dec 2017 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
There are some shows that can simply never be made by men. I don’t mean in the sense of subject...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 13th Dec 2017 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Participatory Theatre, United Kingdom
Between 2002–2005, I carried the professional title of a Dramaturg in the UK. Even when confronted...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Nov 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Lizzie Clachan’s set is a simple stone floor slanting downwards towards the audience in a warm...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 11th Nov 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Every soldier has a story to tell–sometimes a joke, sometimes a parable, often a tragedy. The...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 25th Oct 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Over the last ten years, a new form has evolved on the British stage, rather simply referred to as...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
How do you bring a 10th-century Old English epic closer to a 21st-century audience? And, more...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 11th May 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay
As part of a series of essays on Ivo van Hove’s dramaturgy, Duska Radosavljevic unpicks the...
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