Moulting Of Traditions
Staged at the ongoing 8th Theatre Olympics, Sabir Khan’s Doodhan mirrors the hardships of...
Read MorePosted by S. Ravi | 6th Mar 2018 | Essay, India, Playwriting
Staged at the ongoing 8th Theatre Olympics, Sabir Khan’s Doodhan mirrors the hardships of...
Read MorePosted by Kasia Lech | 1st Mar 2018 | Czech Republic, Essay, Poland, Puppetry, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transcultural Collaborations
Jakub Krofta is currently the Artistic Director of the Wrocław Puppet Theatre (Wrocławski Teatr...
Read MorePosted by Kasia Lech | 25th Feb 2018 | Czech Republic, Essay, Poland, Puppetry, Theatre for Young Audiences
‘In theatre the national differences, instead of dividing, are now connecting,’ says Polish...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 22nd Feb 2018 | Essay, Festivals, Japan
Back in 1995, some of the movers and shakers of the domestic theater scene got together at various...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 13th Feb 2018 | Australia, Essay, Playwriting
In the introduction to her seminal book Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre, Mary...
Read MorePosted by Umoren Ubong David | 4th Feb 2018 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Nigeria, Participatory Theatre
Can rhythm in theatre performances be sustained? Composing a moist and spicy story could be quite...
Read MorePosted by Ekaterini Nikolarea | 2nd Feb 2018 | Essay, Translation
In this essay, I want to discuss the interface the Semiotics of Theater and Theater Translation as...
Read MorePosted by Zolima Citymag | 2nd Feb 2018 | China, Essay, Theatre and Opera
Chinese opera is as expansive and diverse as China itself – and it continues to thrive in the face...
Read MorePosted by Pavel Rudnev | 25th Jan 2018 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured
The movement for the renewal of the repertoire and new playwriting in Russia is hardly more than...
Read MorePosted by Pelle Nordhøj Kann | 23rd Jan 2018 | Denmark, Essay, Management
Actor and artistic director of the Danish theatre company Det Flydende Teater (literally...
Read MorePosted by Jozefina Komporaly | 20th Jan 2018 | Essay, Hungary, London, Romania, Translation, United Kingdom
In November 2017, a world premiere by one of the Hungarian language’s leading playwrights...
Read MorePosted by Marjan Moosavi | 19th Jan 2018 | Essay, Immersive Theatre, Iran
Yuval Sharon was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship “genius grant” for...
Read MorePosted by Taurie Kinoshita | 18th Jan 2018 | Essay, Hawaii, Transcultural Collaborations
Though I never met my great-grandfather, I was told he was fond of saying “Lucky we come...
Read MorePosted by Anna Królica | 13th Jan 2018 | Essay, Poland, Theatre and Dance
It is an interesting coincidence that 1973 saw the creation of both Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Nderitu | 12th Jan 2018 | Essay, Kenya
“I hate critics!” actor Gerald Langiri bellowed, sparking laughter. But his face...
Read MorePosted by Li Mingjie | 12th Jan 2018 | China, Essay, Puppetry
The art of shadow puppetry spent much of the 20th century in decline in China, but over in the US,...
Read MorePosted by Theresa Saxon | 8th Jan 2018 | Essay, Management, United Kingdom
Without an audience in the theatre, there’d be no drama. But audiences have been providing rather...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 1st Jan 2018 | Essay, Musical Theatre, New York, South Korea, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
In the last few months of 2017, K-pop (Korean pop) has made it into U.S. news reports in two...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Churchwell | 25th Dec 2017 | Essay, Playwriting, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom, United States of America
It begins “How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore/And a Scotsman/ dropped in the middle of a...
Read MorePosted by Franz Anton Cramer | 24th Dec 2017 | Essay, Europe, Theatre and Dance
In dance, migration is not a phenomenon confined to modern times. For numerous reasons artists...
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