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Norwegian Avant-Garde Theatre, Part I

Posted by Elisabeth Leinslie | 18th Oct 2016 | Essay, Norway

The Norwegian theatre landscape is vast and heterogeneous; as different as the cultures and the...

Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Queer Interventions

Posted 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...

Ta’ziyeh – Ritual Performance During Muharram

Posted by Marjan Moosavi | 16th Oct 2016 | Essay, Iran

Muharram, the first month of the Islamic (lunar) calendar, coinciding this year with the seventh...

Alternative Worlds and Dream Worlds

Posted 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....

Contemporary New Play Development in Italy: A Playwright Shares Her Experience

Posted 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

“An Enemy of the People”: The Egyptian Experience

Posted 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...

Theatre Projects of Refugee Artists

Posted 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...

Is There a Peruvian Theatre Canon? Part One: “Ipacankure” (1968) by César Vega Herrera

Posted by Mary Barnard | 12th Oct 2016 | Essay, Peru

How to determine which works of theatre belong in a canon is a perennial question, especially...

Dramaturgical Practice – Some Thoughts On Working On Actions in Performance

Posted 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,...

New Plays in Germany

Posted 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...

The Others: Ensemble Workshops with Syrian Refugees

Posted 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...

The Labor of Sense-Making

Posted 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...

The Origin of Armenian Theatre and Transformation of Theatrical Process.

Posted by Ani Harutyunyan | 30th Sep 2016 | Armenia, Directing, Essay

The 20th century became a critical point for Armenian theatre. The development of artistic process...

Welsh Theatre – Curse or Blessing?

Posted 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