Immersive Theatre: Towards a Dramaturgy of Participation
As participatory theatre saturates the mainstream, here’s Persis Jade Maravala and Jorge...
Read MorePosted by Persis Jade Maravala and Jorge Lopes Ramos - Exeunt Magazine | 2nd May 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Immersive Theatre, Participatory Theatre
As participatory theatre saturates the mainstream, here’s Persis Jade Maravala and Jorge...
Read MorePosted by Marina Shimadina | 15th Apr 2016 | Essay, Management, Russia
One of Moscow’s leading theaters, the Sovremennik, is marking its 60th anniversary. The theater,...
Read MorePosted by Anna Kamaralli | 21st Dec 2015 | Acting, Australia, Essay
As the year’s major family holiday season arrives, now is a good time to consider how much about...
Read MorePosted by Sheila T. Cavanagh | 3rd Nov 2015 | Essay, Translation, United Kingdom
An uproar ensued after it was reported that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) – southern...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Ravengai | 30th Oct 2015 | Essay, South Africa, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics
The Western dramatic canon has been a source of irritation to some Afrocentrists, who see it as...
Read MorePosted by Giorgia Alu | 27th Oct 2015 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics
The play Jurassica, currently being performed at St. Kilda Theatre in Melbourne, begins with “the...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick and Elizabeth Schafer | 21st Oct 2015 | Australia, Directing, Essay
Old soldiers fade away. Old theatre directors disappear more quickly. And old female directors can...
Read MorePosted by Farida Fozdar | 14th Oct 2015 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Dance
Australia’s “boat people crisis” has, we’re told, been averted and for many, it’s a case of “out...
Read MorePosted by Jennifer Anderson | 14th Sep 2015 | Australia, Essay, Participatory Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences
A highlight of this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival, which begins tomorrow, is an expanded...
Read MorePosted by Christine Lambrianidis | 18th Aug 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, Essay, Melbourne
When you hear the words Greek tragedy, you might think of white masks, or even the ongoing...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Connell and Patrick Connelly | 18th Aug 2015 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Caitlin Connell and Patrick Connelly have spent the summer in Moscow looking at the current...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 18th Jul 2015 | Essay, Theatre and Disability
The connection between humor and disability is perhaps one of the most challenging and...
Read MorePosted by Catherine Grant and Matthew Harper | 12th Jul 2015 | Australia, Cambodia, Essay, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
What we really need in this capitalist, power-driven, exploitative, consumerist world, according...
Read MorePosted by Peter Tregear | 5th Jul 2015 | Essay, London, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
As an art form routinely accused of contemporary irrelevancy, opera rarely makes headline news....
Read MorePosted by Maria Pilatowicz | 18th Jun 2015 | Essay, Los Angeles, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad
“Does anyone still read Jan Kott?” asked Michael Billington, theatre critic, in his article in The...
Read MorePosted by Aleena Karim | 18th Jun 2015 | Essay, Playwriting, Russia
Aleena Karim interviews John Freedman, an acclaimed American critic, translator and playwright, on...
Read MorePosted by Agnieszka Tworek | 12th Jun 2015 | Directing, Essay, Poland
Today, Monique Stalens often directs her theater adaptations of Gombrowicz and Witkacy in Polish,...
Read MorePosted by Amelia Parenteau | 19th May 2015 | Essay, New York, Theatre and Gender, Translation, United States of America
Our correspondent Amelia Parenteau attended a “consciousness-raising” discussion of...
Read MorePosted by Olesya Khantsevich | 7th May 2015 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Disability
A play staged by Moscow’s Theater of Nations has become the first theatrical production in Russia...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 30th Apr 2015 | Australia, Dramaturgy, Essay, Playwriting
This is a long-read essay, the third in a series on playwriting and drama by Julian Meyrick. Read...
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