The Vrystaat Kunstefees: Developing Creative Industries in the Free State, Part II
Read Part I here. The Vrystaat Arts Festival aims to contribute to the exchange of ideas around...
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Dramaturgies of Generosity: The Theatre of BADco.
BAD co.- is one of the most interesting theatre groups from Croatia. The ensemble, lead by stage...
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A Dramaturg’s Process in NYMF’s NextLink Project
It is much more challenging to dramaturg a musical than a straight play because there are so many more elements to consider, assess, and attempt to balance out. I examine each song in the score in terms of style, tempo, tone, melody, and length.
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The Reinvention Of The Family Play Genre
In many German municipal and state theaters, the Advent season is the starting shot for the...
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“The Nutcracker”: 10 Facts About Russia’s Most Magical Ballet
The original story of The Nutcracker was part of a group of fairytales written by the German...
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Manga Musicals and Takarazuka Revue: A Model of Theatre in Episodes
The adaptation of Japanese manga into musical theatre productions represents an interesting...
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Refuge and Refusal: Why Theatre About Asylum Seekers Matters
When, some eight or nine years ago, I began researching the responses of Australian and refugee...
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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...
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The Great Australian Plays: “The Torrents,” “The Doll” and The Critical Mass of Australian Drama
In 1955, two plays, The Torrents by Oriel Gray and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler,...
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Takarazuka Revue: Japanese All-Female Musical Theater Troupe
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.
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On Festivals: Curatorial Thought in Process
The curator’s role in the performing arts area seems to be, for many—including the curators...
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Sonorous Dramaturgy: Part I
Sonorous dramaturgy, a term borrowed from Eugenio Barba’s On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the...
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Anatomy of a Clown in Applied Theatre: From War-Torn Countries to Children Museums
“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.” – Mort Walker,...
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Song of the Goat Sings the Tragedy of Cordelia in “Songs of Lear”
Devising their works in a 13th-century refractory and former monastery in Wrocław’s Old Town, Song...
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The Great Australian Plays: Speaking ‘Orstyrlian’ in “Rusty Bugles”
Rusty Bugles is a comedy-drama by Sumner Locke Elliot, one of the many talented writers to abandon...
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What Are The Great Australian Plays? Part I
You could say that a canonical play is one where you’re the problem if you don’t like it. The...
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Here’s Why Christopher Marlowe Co-wrote Shakespeare’s “Henry VI”
A new edition of Shakespeare’s works has identified Christopher Marlowe as a co-author. The...
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Dziady Recycling Festival Explores Memory, Performance, and Ritual Across Cultures
It is noteworthy that the custom of banqueting the dead seems to be common to all pagan peoples,...
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Methods of Devising: Using Technology
This is Part 1 in a series of posts that will address varying models/techniques of devising...
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Beckett is Dead! (But European Playwriting is Still Alive)
Here are five new European plays you should know about.
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