Shifting the Spotlight: Exploring the Scarcity of Female Voices in Iraqi Theatre
Upon the release of Contemporary Plays from Iraq in 2017, my focus shifted to translating works...
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Fringe Theatre at Ukraine Fringe: from a Bomb Shelter to a Festival
Readers may or may not be aware that the first edition of the Ukraine Fringe festival, sub-titled...
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Is There a Right Way to Make Chinese Opera?
With countless adaptations, The Peony Pavilion is China’s answer to Swan Lake. But recent attempts...
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Prison Shakespeare at Milan’s Young Offenders Institute
Since 2015 my theatre studies colleague, Cristina Cavecchi, and I have been leading Shakespeare...
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Translating the Act: Kenyan Producers Keeping Indigenous Languages in Auditoriums
In recent years, there has been a growing movement towards promoting and preserving indigenous...
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Leonard Okware has been making theatre companies at the national theatre in Uganda look good for the past 39 years. Theatre lighting design has a major influence on setting the tone and mood of any theatre production. It is what...
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God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot
South African performance artist, writer and cultural worker Kopano Maroga interrogates the...
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Polish People Deserve Better From Irish Theatre…
In 2004, Ireland, as one of the first countries in the EU, invited Polish people to live and work...
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Eugene Ma Wants to Shake Up Hong Kong Theater
Some performers were born to be on Broadway, and Eugene Ma could easily be among them: The...
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On China’s Broadway, IP Is King — For Now
The pandemic was unusually kind to China’s musical theater scene, but an obsession with...
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Léonora Miano On “What Must be Said”
The stage adaptation of Léonora Miano’s Ce qu’il faut dire (or “What Must be Said”) addresses a...
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Drag Queens in Musical Theatre
Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first publication of the play by Jean Poiret La Cage Aux...
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A Dramaturgy Of Desire
What is the transformative potential of party performances? Since venues reopened after the –...
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Shakespeare’s First Folio Turns 400: What Would Be Lost Without the Collection? An Expert Speculates
It has been 400 years since the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays,...
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Theater, A Major Job Sector
That AI is poised to take over countless jobs, wipe out entire job sectors, is all over the news...
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“Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons” Play – How Silence and Body Language Can Communicate as Much as Words
When we talk to each other, there’s what we say out loud, what we wish we could say, and what...
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“All Night Long” by Chantal Akerman
Dance, the maternal and the push and pull against the form. The feature length film Toute une nuit...
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Touching the Azerbaijani Theatre: From Ritual to Spontaneity
The term of ritual has always been an object for endless discussions amongst theologians, cultural...
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The Digital Spectator. Romanian Experiences During the Pandemic
The topic of the digital spectator and, implicitly, the one of the multi-stratified co-presence,...
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ENTRE: A Dispersed Festival of Literature and Theater in Goiania and São Paulo, Brazil
An ambitious plan to fly from Gdańsk, Poland to Goiânia, Brazil and co-organize as well as lead a...
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