Prison Theatre in Jordan
As Hakeem leaves the workshop that he leads in the Aljwaida prison for women in Jordan, he is...
Read MorePosted by Fadi Fayad Skeiker | 23rd Aug 2016 | Applied Theatre, Essay, Jordan
As Hakeem leaves the workshop that he leads in the Aljwaida prison for women in Jordan, he is...
Read MorePosted by Rok Vevar | 17th Aug 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Europe
“The past is a horrible, fuzzy abyss; what steers into that twilight, ceases to exist–like it has...
Read MorePosted by Adrian Heathfield | 15th Aug 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Participatory Theatre
Wherever dramaturgy is conceived as a practice of thought in advance of the event, it will be...
Read MorePosted by Mischa Twitchin | 13th Aug 2016 | Essay, Festivals, Poland
Being a festival visitor often leads to an impression of place or events that is slightly unreal....
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 10th Aug 2016 | Australia, Essay, Playwriting
The first Australian National Playwrights Centre (ANPC) was founded in 1973 – the age of bongs,...
Read MorePosted by Mischa Twitchin | 9th Aug 2016 | Essay, Festivals, Poland
Last year the Malta Festival in Poznan celebrated its 25th anniversary. Now a well-established...
Read MorePosted by Kenneth Wardrop and Anna Leask | 7th Aug 2016 | Essay, Festivals, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Edinburgh Festival is upon us again, a three-week spectacular that turns the Scottish capital...
Read MorePosted by Lucy Rose Coren | 2nd Aug 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay
The role of the dramaturg within text-based theatre is currently prescriptive and limiting. There...
Read MorePosted by Bryoni Trezise | 2nd Aug 2016 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Disability
Renowned Shakespearean actor Robert Armin wrote in 1608 of the difference between a “natural” and...
Read MorePosted by Oleg Krasnov - Russia Beyond Headlines | 31st Jul 2016 | Essay, Russia
Learn how to galvanize an enormous auditorium, tame an usherette and get the best seat in the...
Read MorePosted by Meron Langsner | 25th Jul 2016 | Essay, Stage Combat
Attention Young Actors: You don’t always know what you think you know. This is especially...
Read MorePosted by Fadi Fayad Skeiker | 23rd Jul 2016 | Applied Theatre, Essay, Germany
I am in the same room with three young asylum seekers from Syria—Abed, 17, from Deir al-Zour;...
Read MorePosted by Elisabeth Schweeger | 18th Jul 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay
Knowing literature inside out, developing the repertoire, making translations…the list of skills...
Read MorePosted by Didi Cheeka | 13th Jul 2016 | Essay, Nigeria, Theatre and Politics
On July 28, 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia. The next day, across the Danube, Belgrade, came...
Read MorePosted by Iulia Popovici | 12th Jul 2016 | Essay, Romania
With a new–and technocratic–government, a Ministry of Culture with a limited mandate (until the...
Read MorePosted by Bojana Jankovic - Exeunt Magazine | 17th Jun 2016 | Essay, Playwriting, Translation
Bojana Janković calls out British theatre’s extreme reluctance to stage plays that...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 16th Jun 2016 | Essay, Japan, Theatre and Dance
The atmosphere at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, must have been...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 27th May 2016 | Essay, Playwriting, Russian Theatre Abroad, United Kingdom
British stages have long been in love with Anton Chekhov and Nikolai Gogol, but there is...
Read MorePosted by Lai Del Rosario | 20th May 2016 | Essay, Philippines, Producing, Theatre and Dance
Gabriel Barredo’s Opera, Choreographed by Redha is a show fusing dance and the visual arts. Staged...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 13th May 2016 | Directing, Essay, Japan
Acclaimed stage director Yukio Ninagawa was a titan of global theater but his hand felt...
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