The Political Is Personal (Or Vice Versa)
During summer, the Flemish theatre lover catches up on what he missed during the season. And the...
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...
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 More
The Queen of Versailles Musical or the Funeral of… by Lisa Monde 29th October 2025
“Trilogia Cadela Força – Capítulo II:… by Jenny Strataki 6th August 2025
“Aşınma” (“Corrosion”): A… by Seda Ilter 23rd November 2025
The Filmed Performance “Woodland Bird… by Martin Blaszk 9th November 2025 


James Graham’s “Punch” at the Apollo Theatre:… by Aleks Sierz 30th September 2025 
Nearly Finished by Jonathan Kalb 15th November 2025