As We Turn to Creativity in Isolation, The Coronavirus is a Calamity on Top of an Arts Crisis”
Some years ago, I traveled to Israel for a conference on dramaturgy. Losing my way at the train...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 16th Apr 2020 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Art
Some years ago, I traveled to Israel for a conference on dramaturgy. Losing my way at the train...
Read MorePosted by Aisling Murphy | 14th Apr 2020 | Canada, Essay, Theatre and Science
It’s been a strange few weeks. Despite the unprecedented scope of this cultural wound, I write to...
Read MorePosted by Paul Yachnin | 12th Apr 2020 | Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
Shakespeare lived his life in plague-time. He was born in April 1564, a few months before...
Read MorePosted by Eylül Fidan Akıncı | 7th Apr 2020 | Essay, Puppetry, South Korea, Transmedia
The history of puppetry is full of supernatural bodies on stage that dramatically or subtextually...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 6th Apr 2020 | Essay, India, Theatre and Art
Sudhanva Deshpande’s book, Halla Bol remembers the legendary theatremaker and activist through a...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 1st Apr 2020 | Design, Essay, India
For ensemble pieces in theatre, where actors never once leave the stage, what becomes...
Read MorePosted by Ian Kiyingi Muddu | 25th Mar 2020 | Essay, Uganda
The African theatre scene in the 1960s and the 70s was mainly peopled by men. But there were women...
Read MorePosted by Agata Adamiecka-Sitek, Marta Keil, Igor Stokfiszewski | 14th Mar 2020 | Essay, Poland, Polish Theatre Archives, Polish Theatre Reviews
The below essay is the programme document of a research project Porozumienie (Agreement) at the...
Read MorePosted by Nora Amin | 11th Mar 2020 | Egypt, Essay, Puppetry, Theatre and Decolonization
An essay by Nora Amin that traces the presence of shadow theatre within the modern and...
Read MorePosted by Daniele Avila Small | 6th Mar 2020 | Brazil, Documentary Theatre, Essay, Festivals, Theatre and Gender
Stabat Mater is the most recent work by Brazilian actress, playwright, and director Janaina Leite,...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 3rd Mar 2020 | Essay, India, Theatre and Politics
In the play, Colors of Trans 2.0, when the transgender performer Living Smile Vidya bares her...
Read MorePosted by Elodie Paillard | 26th Feb 2020 | Essay, Greece, Theatre and Film
Many will be familiar with the looming presence of Oedipus or Antigone in Classical Greek tragedy....
Read MorePosted by Roaa Ali | 18th Feb 2020 | Essay, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Have you ever been to the theatre, looked around, and thought about how predominantly white the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Feb 2020 | Essay, London, United Kingdom
“Fetch me ’ammer.” (Edward Bond, Saved) “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Feb 2020 | Essay, London, United Kingdom
Theatre is a business as well as a craft. And surveys about theatre often have a business side to...
Read MorePosted by Zainabu Jallo | 28th Jan 2020 | Essay, Switzerland, Theatre and Science, Zambia
Zambian scientist and teacher Edward Mukuka Nkoloso founded the Zambia National Academy of...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 27th Jan 2020 | Acting, Essay, India
A staged legacy: Doyen of Marathi theatre, Shriram Lagoo gave life to political plays, worked in...
Read MorePosted by Ilse Ghekiere | 19th Jan 2020 | Belgium, Essay, Theatre and Gender
What does it mean to build an oeuvre as a woman? There are still obstacles on the road that are...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Nderitu | 17th Jan 2020 | Africa, Essay, New York, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
Ntozake Shange, author of the famous Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide /...
Read MorePosted by Monika Kwaśniewska | 8th Jan 2020 | Acting, Essay, Poland
Since I will be recalling many other voices, I will start, somewhat pretentiously, with my own, in...
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