Microtheater in Words Without Borders: A Genre for Uncertain Times
More than ten years after Words without Borders presented its first issue of theater in...
Read MorePosted by Eric M. B. Becker | 11th Dec 2016 | Essay, Translation
More than ten years after Words without Borders presented its first issue of theater in...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 9th Dec 2016 | Australia, Essay
In 1955, two plays, The Torrents by Oriel Gray and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler,...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Deutsch | 7th Dec 2016 | Essay, Japan, Musical Theatre, Theatre and Gender
Nothing’s clear-cut at Japan’s Takarazuka Revue, arguably one of the world’s largest all-female musical theatre groups. The women who portray male roles in the Revue’s repertoire must maintain a semblance of “maleness” off-stage as well, the “off” boundaries being far away from the theatre environs.
Read MorePosted by Michele Rolim | 6th Dec 2016 | Brazil, Dramaturgy, Essay, Festivals, Producing
The curator’s role in the performing arts area seems to be, for many—including the curators...
Read MorePosted by KaiChieh Tu | 5th Dec 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay
Sonorous dramaturgy, a term borrowed from Eugenio Barba’s On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the...
Read MorePosted by Curtis Peter van Gorder | 5th Dec 2016 | Applied Theatre, Essay
“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.” – Mort Walker,...
Read MorePosted by KaiChieh Tu | 5th Dec 2016 | Acting, Adaptation, Essay, Poland, Theatre and Gender
Devising their works in a 13th-century refractory and former monastery in Wrocław’s Old Town, Song...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 4th Dec 2016 | Australia, Essay
Rusty Bugles is a comedy-drama by Sumner Locke Elliot, one of the many talented writers to abandon...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 2nd Dec 2016 | Australia, Essay
You could say that a canonical play is one where you’re the problem if you don’t like it. The...
Read MorePosted by Hugh Craig | 2nd Dec 2016 | Essay, United Kingdom
A new edition of Shakespeare’s works has identified Christopher Marlowe as a co-author. The...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Dubowski | 27th Nov 2016 | Adaptation, Essay, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Poland, Review
It is noteworthy that the custom of banqueting the dead seems to be common to all pagan peoples,...
Read MorePosted by Martine Kei Green-Rogers | 23rd Nov 2016 | Devised Theatre, Essay
This is Part 1 in a series of posts that will address varying models/techniques of devising...
Read MorePosted by Michael Evans | 19th Nov 2016 | Denmark, Essay, Europe, Playwriting
Here are five new European plays you should know about.
Read MorePosted by Klaas Tindemans | 18th Nov 2016 | Belgium, Essay, Theatre and Politics
During summer, the Flemish theatre lover catches up on what he missed during the season. And the...
Read MorePosted by Hannah Banks | 16th Nov 2016 | Essay, New Zealand, Theatre and Gender
On the 19th September 2016, the 123rd anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in New...
Read MorePosted by Diogo Liberano | 16th Nov 2016 | Brazil, Dramaturgy, Essay
Everything started to me in 2007. Since then it is me and her work, through her work, from her...
Read MorePosted by Oksana Dudko | 8th Nov 2016 | Essay, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
New Theatre in Ukraine: Rattle, Break, and Creation Ukrainian theatre has been rattling since the...
Read MorePosted by Elisabeth Leinslie | 27th Oct 2016 | Essay, Norway
The independent theatre companies have at all times been champions for developing new texts for...
Read MorePosted by Tomaž Toporišič | 26th Oct 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay
I. The dramaturg as emancipated spectator I will begin with this assumption: Today the...
Read MorePosted by Philippa Wehle | 26th Oct 2016 | Essay, Translation
Thinking about how to make supertitles more friendly, more accessible to an audience that is...
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