Is there a Peruvian Theatre Canon? Part Two: “Collacocha” (1956) by Enrique Solari Swayne
Collacocha by Enrique Solari Swayne gains new life as it approaches its sixtieth year of production.
Read MorePosted by Mary Barnard | 24th Oct 2016 | Essay, Peru
Collacocha by Enrique Solari Swayne gains new life as it approaches its sixtieth year of production.
Read MorePosted by Sam Solnick | 23rd Oct 2016 | Essay, United Kingdom
Oil, Ella Hickson’s new play at the Almeida, begins in a bitingly cold Cornwall in 1889 when a...
Read MorePosted by Florian Malzacher | 23rd Oct 2016 | Essay, Germany, Participatory Theatre, Theatre and Politics
The more the time we are living through seems out of joint, the harder it has been for the...
Read MorePosted by Paula Lopez | 23rd Oct 2016 | Brazil, Essay, Festivals, Theatre and Disability
In January 2016, I took part of a round table entitled The Disabled People’s Protagonism in...
Read MorePosted by Deepa Ganesh | 21st Oct 2016 | Essay, India
Ninasam Tirugata staged two plays — Kalandugeya Kathe and Atta Dari Itta Puli. One reads the...
Read MorePosted by Elisabeth Leinslie | 18th Oct 2016 | Essay, Norway
The Norwegian theatre landscape is vast and heterogeneous; as different as the cultures and the...
Read MorePosted by Bryce Lease | 17th Oct 2016 | Essay, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Poland
In Poland, the emergence of a public dialogue on alternative sexuality was first and foremost...
Read MorePosted by Marjan Moosavi | 16th Oct 2016 | Essay, Iran
Muharram, the first month of the Islamic (lunar) calendar, coinciding this year with the seventh...
Read MorePosted by Ulrike Kahle-Steinweh | 15th Oct 2016 | Design, Essay, Germany
Katrin Brack and Barbara Ehnes, two set designers, have influenced and even changed the theatre....
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 15th Oct 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Italy, Playwriting
“While Italy this year is celebrating 150 years as a single nation state, in many fields any sense of unity is still tenuous. Theatre and contemporary playwriting are no exceptions to this rule.” – Margaret Rose
Read MorePosted by Nora Amin | 13th Oct 2016 | Adaptation, Applied Theatre, Egypt, Essay
It was September 2012 that I had decided to stage An Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen. A play...
Read MorePosted by Dorothea Marcus | 12th Oct 2016 | Essay, Germany, Theatre and Politics
On the German stage refugees are still often the authentic narrators of their fate, directed by...
Read MorePosted by Mary Barnard | 12th Oct 2016 | Essay, Peru
How to determine which works of theatre belong in a canon is a perennial question, especially...
Read MorePosted by Konstantina Georgelou, Efrosini Protopapa, and Danae Theodoridou | 9th Oct 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay
For three years, between 2013-2016, we regularly invited theatre-makers, choreographers,...
Read MorePosted by Christine Wahl | 9th Oct 2016 | Essay, Germany, Playwriting
The new theatre texts that have been presented in the 2015/16 season at play markets in...
Read MorePosted by Dyane Stillman | 5th Oct 2016 | Applied Theatre, Essay
I moved to Lebanon this August to join the faculty of ACS at Beirut, after having spent six years...
Read MorePosted by Julien Bruneau | 3rd Oct 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay
The labor of sense-making On spectatorship and the oracular potential of art To make sense We are...
Read MorePosted by Ani Harutyunyan | 30th Sep 2016 | Armenia, Directing, Essay
The 20th century became a critical point for Armenian theatre. The development of artistic process...
Read MorePosted by Ian Rowlands | 30th Sep 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay, United Kingdom
“Though we have a nascent theatre tradition, we do have a long tradition of performance…Our writers are indicative of a nation that is still wrestling…with positive identifications of self.” – Ian Rowlands
Read MorePosted by Cristina Modreanu | 29th Sep 2016 | Documentary Theatre, Essay, Romania, Theatre and Politics
A powerful trend in Romanian new drama in the past few years focuses on re-discovering of the...
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