The Vrystaat Kunstefees: Developing Creative Industries in the Free State, Part I
The Vrystaat Arts Festival aims to contribute to the exchange of ideas around art, culture, and...
Read MorePosted by Ricardo Peach | 29th Sep 2016 | Essay, Festivals, Participatory Theatre, South Africa
The Vrystaat Arts Festival aims to contribute to the exchange of ideas around art, culture, and...
Read MorePosted by Martine Kei Green-Rogers | 28th Sep 2016 | Devised Theatre, Essay
Depending on who you talk to, devised theatre has numerous definitions. Eric Grode on the TDF...
Read MorePosted by Christine Wahl | 22nd Sep 2016 | Essay, Germany, Theatre and Politics
The German theatre has responded to the swing to the right in society. It has thereby proceeded to...
Read MorePosted by Fadi Fayad Skeiker | 20th Sep 2016 | Essay, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
Earthport was performed in Berlin and Cairo in 2016. This article is based on the Berlin...
Read MorePosted by Gad Kaynar | 18th Sep 2016 | Essay, Israel
The late Israeli critic, Dr. Shosh Avigal, wrote in 1996 that: “It is private life that is...
Read MorePosted by Jonah Salz | 15th Sep 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Japan
Kyôgen (狂言) are short, stylized comedies performed between somber masked-dance noh (能) for over...
Read MorePosted by Peta Tait | 12th Sep 2016 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Opera
Circus has always shamelessly borrowed from other performance forms. It has coopted all types of...
Read MorePosted by Cristina Modreanu | 11th Sep 2016 | Essay, Romania, Theatre and Politics
In key historical moments, theater, as the most political of all arts, is one of the best ways to...
Read MorePosted by Judith Engel | 7th Sep 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay
What can good dramaturgy achieve? For the presentation of the Marie Zimmermann Fellowship for...
Read MorePosted by Mary Mazzilli | 7th Sep 2016 | China, Essay, Playwriting
In his 400th anniversary year, Shakespeare is still rightly celebrated as a great wordsmith and...
Read MorePosted by Martin Boyd | 6th Sep 2016 | Essay, Translation
In her article, “Performability versus Readability,” Greek-Canadian translator and translation...
Read MorePosted by KaiChieh Tu | 4th Sep 2016 | Essay, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Taiwan
Taiwan is currently celebrating vibrant queer scenes (one of the biggest Pride in Asia) and a...
Read MorePosted by Manuel de Loren | 4th Sep 2016 | Acting, Essay
In Spain, as everywhere, working in your trade—and not any other area—is not easy for everyone. Only forty-six actors and actresses out of a hundred could find work between 2014 and 2016. And almost a third of the acting professionals live under the poverty threshold and almost two thirds move between meager and just decent earnings.
Read MorePosted by Emma Smith | 4th Sep 2016 | Essay, Transmedia
Three US neuroscientists published a case study in 2005 detailing how a woman, AJ, was plagued by...
Read MorePosted by Anny Mokotow | 1st Sep 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Theatre and Dance
Multiple approaches in contemporary performance and in dance performance, in particular, are part...
Read MorePosted by Temple Hauptfleisch | 31st Aug 2016 | Essay, Festivals, South Africa
In 1999, working with colleagues from the Theatrical Event Working Group of the International...
Read MorePosted by Marina Shimadina - Russia Beyond the Headlines | 31st Aug 2016 | Essay, News, Russia
St. Petersburg’s storied Alexandrinsky Theater and its well-known artistic director Valery Fokin...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Aug 2016 | Essay, London, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Earlier this month, on 16 August, I went to a small, slightly stuffy London venue called Theatre...
Read MorePosted by Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco | 24th Aug 2016 | Directing, Essay, Philippines
Ariane Mnouchkine, the founding Artistic Director of Théâtre du Soleil in France, abhors the use...
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