Good Dramaturgy Is Invisible: Friedrich Schirmer, Marcus Grube & Judith Engel
What can good dramaturgy achieve? For the presentation of the Marie Zimmermann Fellowship for...
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From China With Love: Tang Xianzu was the Shakespeare of the Orient
In his 400th anniversary year, Shakespeare is still rightly celebrated as a great wordsmith and...
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The Problem of ‘Performability’ in Theatre Translation
In her article, “Performability versus Readability,” Greek-Canadian translator and translation...
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Taiwanese Experimental and Queer Theater: Always Political, Always Queer
Taiwan is currently celebrating vibrant queer scenes (one of the biggest Pride in Asia) and a...
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An Actor’s Future-Not Even Television Will Save Them
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.
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Why We Need to Remember How to Forget
Three US neuroscientists published a case study in 2005 detailing how a woman, AJ, was plagued by...
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Decentring Dance Dramaturgy
Multiple approaches in contemporary performance and in dance performance, in particular, are part...
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South African Arts Festivals Today
In 1999, working with colleagues from the Theatrical Event Working Group of the International...
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The Alexandrinsky Theater: Still Pushing Cultural Boundaries at 260
St. Petersburg’s storied Alexandrinsky Theater and its well-known artistic director Valery Fokin...
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The Theatre of Carolina Virgüez
Carolina Virgüez Serrato arrived at Rio de Janeiro in the early 80’s and knew she wouldn’t be...
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London Theatre: In Mourning for Brexit
Earlier this month, on 16 August, I went to a small, slightly stuffy London venue called Theatre...
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The Theater of José Estrella
Ariane Mnouchkine, the founding Artistic Director of Théâtre du Soleil in France, abhors the use...
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Prison Theatre in Jordan
As Hakeem leaves the workshop that he leads in the Aljwaida prison for women in Jordan, he is...
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From Death Cult To Hope
“The past is a horrible, fuzzy abyss; what steers into that twilight, ceases to exist–like it has...
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Dramaturgy Without a Dramaturg
Wherever dramaturgy is conceived as a practice of thought in advance of the event, it will be...
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The Contexts Festival of Ephemeral Art
Being a festival visitor often leads to an impression of place or events that is slightly unreal....
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Playwriting In Australia
The first Australian National Playwrights Centre (ANPC) was founded in 1973 – the age of bongs,...
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The Malta Festival, 2015
Last year the Malta Festival in Poznan celebrated its 25th anniversary. Now a well-established...
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Edinburgh Festivals: How They Became the World’s Biggest Arts Event
The Edinburgh Festival is upon us again, a three-week spectacular that turns the Scottish capital...
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The Dramaturgical Notion of Counter-text
The role of the dramaturg within text-based theatre is currently prescriptive and limiting. There...
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