“The Petty Bourgeois‘” And “The Gambler‘s” Warnings About Anthropocentrism And Capitalism
For the first article about Czech theatre, I’ve selected works by two young directors, who belong...
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Cally Spooner: Between Language And Body
Black box and white cube From February 3 till March 18, the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva...
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Street-Theatre And Indian Feminist Theatre
Impact of Street-Theatre on the Formation of Indian Feminist Theatre The introduction of feminist...
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Liu Xiaoyi: Bending Space And Time In The Theatre
As part of the Asian Theatremakers series Liu Xiaoyi and I are arranging for a time and date to...
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Who Is The Greatest Living British Playwright?
There is a simple dinner-party game that can be played at no ostensible cost. The host asks, “Who...
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Molly Lowe And Bertolt Brecht: Making The Familiar Strange
Blurring the lines between the grotesque and the beautiful, the cerebral and the corporeal,...
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Thinking Out Loud
Essayisting Figures On Stage The influence of the essay as a means of expression has long reached...
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Dark Times: British Theatre After Brexit
“In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark...
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Report from The 11th Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival, Kraków, Poland: Reflections of a Strange Strange World
The 11th iteration of the Boska Komedia (Divine Comedy, think Dante) International Theater...
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How Brexit Ruins My Life
Brexit. The UK Referendum vote to leave the European Union — Brexit — took place on 23 June 2016,...
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Care To Dance Dramaturg? The Invention Of A New Craft
A Foreword by the Editor Thirty years ago an essay was published in the Canadian journal Theatrum...
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Making And Knowing: How Theatre Helps To Explore A City’s Identity
What gives an urban area a particular quality? What is the mood, feeling or atmosphere that makes...
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In The Post-Truth Era, Documentary Theatre Searches For Common Ground
With the onslaught of “alternative facts” or “fake news,” it can feel as though the ground has...
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Radical Theatre Of The Difabled
“Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves” – Augusto Boal, founder of the...
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Performance Entre Le Réel Et Le Virtuel: Le Projet “Odiseo.Com”
Performance Between the Real and the Virtual: The Odiseo.com Project I will focus here on the...
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Persian Hippolyte: Hybrid Performance Cultures, Hybrid Identity, And Hybrid Technology
In 2013, Goosan Artistic Group, an Iranian group of performance artists, created a promenade...
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Violent Clowns And Panto Dames: The Origins Of “Rocky Horror’s” Frank-N-Furter
Dr. Frank-N-furter, the snappy alpha-alien who stars in The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show, is one of...
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Identity, Technology, Nostalgia: The Theater Of Ivo Van Hove, Robert Lepage, And The Wooster Group
In recent theatre practice, attempts have been made and desires expressly voiced–from puppet...
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Cybernetics Vs. Decartes
The Mind of non-Cartesian Theater To contextualize my work HUMAN SIMULATION, I organized a...
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Transformation In Contemporary Indian Theater: Abhilash Pillai’s “Helen”
In recent times in India, we have seen the actor’s presence eclipsed by technology in productions...
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