Lara Cox

regional managing editor

l.cox@thetheatretimes.com

Hailing from the UK, Lara Cox is based in France where she works as a teacher of English at university level. Her first book (2018) explored ways in which the Theatre of the Absurd may speak meaningfully to twenty-first century audiences versed in queer and intersectional feminist social justice politics. She is interested in Anglo-French transcultural practices in performance, theatre, and theory, and is in the early stages of developing a book-length project on decolonizing contemporary theatre processes in France, the US, and the UK.

A Blast from the Past: Les Champignons de Paris by La Compagnie du Caméléon

Posted by Lara Cox | 15th Sep 2022 | Interview, Oceania, Producing, Theatre and Decolonization

On June 13, 2022, I spoke with Guillaume Gay, who is operational and artistic director of the...

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Interactive Map: “Theatre and Decolonization” at “The Theatre Times”

Posted by Lara Cox | 23rd May 2022 | Essay, Theatre and Decolonization, Worldwide

Over the years, our contributors have been addressing the topic of decolonization in theatre and...

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“Black Boy,” or What to Do with the White Theatre Critic

Posted by Lara Cox | 16th May 2022 | Adaptation, France, Review, Theatre and Decolonization

What do you do when you are blown away by a show, and yet you know that there is something...

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The Power of Reflection in “Portrait Avedon-Baldwin, Entretiens imaginaires” at the Théâtre du Rond Point, Paris

Posted by Lara Cox | 19th Apr 2022 | France, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics

One of France’s greatest prides is the network of African American artists who, in the...

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(Not) Adapting to the French Stage: “Les Producteurs”, Directed by Alexis Michalik, at the Théâtre de Paris

Posted by Lara Cox | 15th Dec 2021 | Adaptation, France, Musical Theatre, Review, Translation

A week after Josephine Baker posthumously entered the French Panthéon, a musical about two...

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Playing with “White is Purity” in Pirandello’s “Comme tu me veux”

Posted by Lara Cox | 19th Sep 2021 | France, Review, Theatre and Art

In 2017, the cosmetics company Nivea released an advert that was promptly pulled: a white woman’s...

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Immersion and Spectator Self-Reckoning: “Boxing Shadows” at the Avignon Theatre Festival

Posted by Lara Cox | 30th Jul 2021 | Australia, Avignon 2021, France, Immersive Theatre, Review

One of the highlights of this year’s Avignon Festival was Boxing Shadows, written especially by...

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Theatre in the Time of Protest: “Glass Menagerie” at the Théâtre de l’Odéon

Posted by Lara Cox | 18th Jun 2021 | France, Review, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Politics

History, as they say, has a habit of repeating itself. When French theatre-makers seized hold of...

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Democratizing the Theatre-Making Process: “Six Characters in Search of An Author”

Posted by Lara Cox | 16th Jun 2021 | France, Review

To re-open its season after the lifting of COVID-19-related restrictions, Paris’s Théâtre de la...

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Spotlight on “Pale Sister”: On Lighting in Digital Theatre

Posted by Lara Cox | 29th May 2021 | Ireland, Review, Theatre and Film, Transmedia, United Kingdom

Pale Sister is the latest adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone (c. 441 BC), written by...

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