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Sebastian Kreyer’s Staging of “Ghosts”

Posted by Ilana Walder-Biesanz | 13th Feb 2015 | Germany, Review

I’ve complained a lot in previous reviews about directors staging tragedies as comedies. But...

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A Better-Than-Traditional Woyzeck

Posted by Ilana Walder-Biesanz | 26th Jan 2015 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Gender

I don’t actually like Woyzeck very much, so I am not sure why I bought tickets to two different...

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The Threepenny Non-Opera

Posted by Ilana Walder-Biesanz | 25th Jan 2015 | Germany, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Opera

Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera is much more of a musical than an opera. But it decidedly...

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A Static “Ivanov” At Theaterfestival Basel

Posted by Ilana Walder-Biesanz | 7th Sep 2014 | Festivals, Germany, Iran, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad, Transcultural Collaborations

“Alienation” drones Ivanov’s English-learning tape in the second act of the production. The...

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