Sequins and Symphonies: How Opera Ran Away With the Circus
Circus has always shamelessly borrowed from other performance forms. It has coopted all types of...
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...
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...
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