Ten Years of Providing Young Performers with a Theatre Platform
It’s an ordinary Saturday morning. The October sun is already hitting hard, I am sweating. I am in...
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The Power of Proximity and the Theatre of Touch: What Losing Live Audiences May Mean for Theatre
Being close to others is intrinsically associated with theatre. In Shakespeare’s London, theatre...
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The Story Behind Andrew Ssebaggala’s “Mother Uganda”
Rose Mbowa is an indubitable doyenne in Uganda’s theatre. At Makerere University, an ivy league of...
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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...
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A Mid-Pandemic Letter To The City Of Ottawa From A Young Theatre Critic (CC: GCTC’s Daisy)
It’s been a strange few weeks. Despite the unprecedented scope of this cultural wound, I write to...
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After the Plague, Shakespeare Imagined a World Saved from Poison, Slander and the Evil Eye
Shakespeare lived his life in plague-time. He was born in April 1564, a few months before...
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Love, Labor, Loop: (Object’s) Life according to Geumhyung Jeong
The history of puppetry is full of supernatural bodies on stage that dramatically or subtextually...
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The Importance Of Safdar Hashmi
Sudhanva Deshpande’s book, Halla Bol remembers the legendary theatremaker and activist through a...
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The Mechanics of Crafting Transitions
For ensemble pieces in theatre, where actors never once leave the stage, what becomes...
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Uganda’s Elvania Namukwaya Who Broke the Glass Ceiling of Theatre
The African theatre scene in the 1960s and the 70s was mainly peopled by men. But there were women...
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Feminisation, Democracy, Labour: Towards a Socialised Cultural Institution
The below essay is the programme document of a research project Porozumienie (Agreement) at the...
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Shadow Theatre: Performance and the Imaginary in Contemporary Egypt
An essay by Nora Amin that traces the presence of shadow theatre within the modern and...
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The Fundamental Profanation
Stabat Mater is the most recent work by Brazilian actress, playwright, and director Janaina Leite,...
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Demystifying The Magic Of Theatre
In the play, Colors of Trans 2.0, when the transgender performer Living Smile Vidya bares her...
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As Fates Would Have It – What We Learn From Minor Players In Greek Tragedies And Hollywood Films
Many will be familiar with the looming presence of Oedipus or Antigone in Classical Greek tragedy....
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Why You Don’t See Many Black and Ethnic Minority Faces in Cultural Spaces – And What Happens if You Call Out the System
Have you ever been to the theatre, looked around, and thought about how predominantly white the...
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Brexit Revisited
“Fetch me ’ammer.” (Edward Bond, Saved) “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with...
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Bard or Blockbuster
Theatre is a business as well as a craft. And surveys about theatre often have a business side to...
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BLACK. SPACE. RACE. Afrofuturism
Zambian scientist and teacher Edward Mukuka Nkoloso founded the Zambia National Academy of...
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Doyen of Marathi Theatre Shriram Lagoo Left Behind A Mark Few Could Rival
A staged legacy: Doyen of Marathi theatre, Shriram Lagoo gave life to political plays, worked in...
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