Living And Breathing History, Through Noh
Noh performer Hisa Uzawa has spent her life devoted to an art form that—with its slow and steady...
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The Gaze Of The Robot: Oriza Hirata’s Robot Theatre
Ten Years of Robot Theatre Directed by Oriza Hirata In Japan, the development of humanoid robots...
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Moulting Of Traditions
Staged at the ongoing 8th Theatre Olympics, Sabir Khan’s Doodhan mirrors the hardships of...
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Changing The Landscape Of Puppetry Theatre In Poland: Jakub Krofta And The Wrocław Puppet Theatre
Jakub Krofta is currently the Artistic Director of the Wrocław Puppet Theatre (Wrocławski Teatr...
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Czech Puppetry Practitioners in Poland; or, a Parable on the Importance of Internationalisation in Theatre Training
‘In theatre the national differences, instead of dividing, are now connecting,’ says Polish...
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TPAM’s Magic Happens In Front Of And Behind The Curtain
Back in 1995, some of the movers and shakers of the domestic theater scene got together at various...
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The Great Australian Plays: “The Cake Man” And The Indigenous Mission Experience
In the introduction to her seminal book Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre, Mary...
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From Script To Stage: Sustaining The Rhythm In Performing Art In Nigeria
Can rhythm in theatre performances be sustained? Composing a moist and spicy story could be quite...
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A Theoretical Polarization Between Performability Versus Readability Or Towards “The Metaphysics Of A (Play) Text?”
In this essay, I want to discuss the interface the Semiotics of Theater and Theater Translation as...
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Colliding Traditions Keep Chinese Opera Alive and Well
Chinese opera is as expansive and diverse as China itself – and it continues to thrive in the face...
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The New Play Dramaturgy in Russia
The movement for the renewal of the repertoire and new playwriting in Russia is hardly more than...
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Managing The Floating Theatre in Denmark: Reality Always Wins
Actor and artistic director of the Danish theatre company Det Flydende Teater (literally...
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From Skopje To London Via Hungarian And English: András Visky’s “The Unburied”
In November 2017, a world premiere by one of the Hungarian language’s leading playwrights...
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“Unpermitted Whispers:” Reflections On The Originality Of “Hopscotch” Performance
Yuval Sharon was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship “genius grant” for...
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Casting In Multiethnic And Multiracial Context: Changing Perspectives
Though I never met my great-grandfather, I was told he was fond of saying “Lucky we come...
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Polish Tanztheater?
It is an interesting coincidence that 1973 saw the creation of both Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater...
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Criticizing The Critics: Kenyan Thespians React To Analysts
“I hate critics!” actor Gerald Langiri bellowed, sparking laughter. But his face...
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How a Bunch of Americans Preserved a Dying Chinese Tradition
The art of shadow puppetry spent much of the 20th century in decline in China, but over in the US,...
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Noises Off: UK Theatre Audiences Have Always Been A Rowdy Lot
Without an audience in the theatre, there’d be no drama. But audiences have been providing rather...
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The “KPOP” Invasion in a New American Musical Part I
In the last few months of 2017, K-pop (Korean pop) has made it into U.S. news reports in two...
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