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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“Twelfth Night” and Cross-Mobility Casting
Renowned Shakespearean actor Robert Armin wrote in 1608 of the difference between a “natural” and...
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Secrets of the Bolshoi: The Life and Times of a Soviet Claque
Learn how to galvanize an enormous auditorium, tame an usherette and get the best seat in the...
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Please Think Twice Before Putting ‘Stage Combat’ On Your Resume
Attention Young Actors: You don’t always know what you think you know. This is especially...
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Dreams of Young Syrian Refugees Imagined
I am in the same room with three young asylum seekers from Syria—Abed, 17, from Deir al-Zour;...
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On Dramaturgy: Requirement. Excessive Demand. Living Art.
Knowing literature inside out, developing the repertoire, making translations…the list of skills...
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Suicide as the Awareness of Meaninglessness in “Death and the King’s Horseman”
On July 28, 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia. The next day, across the Danube, Belgrade, came...
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Public Theatres Vs. The Independents: The Saga Of The Never-Ending Systemic Change In Romania (I)
With a new–and technocratic–government, a Ministry of Culture with a limited mandate (until the...
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