“All Night Long” by Chantal Akerman
Dance, the maternal and the push and pull against the form. The feature length film Toute une nuit...
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Touching the Azerbaijani Theatre: From Ritual to Spontaneity
The term of ritual has always been an object for endless discussions amongst theologians, cultural...
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The Digital Spectator. Romanian Experiences During the Pandemic
The topic of the digital spectator and, implicitly, the one of the multi-stratified co-presence,...
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ENTRE: A Dispersed Festival of Literature and Theater in Goiania and São Paulo, Brazil
An ambitious plan to fly from Gdańsk, Poland to Goiânia, Brazil and co-organize as well as lead a...
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Theatre and Social Justice in Brazil: The Successful Case of the São Paulo Theatre School
Introduction São Paulo Theatre School was founded in 2009 with the aim to establish a democratic...
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The ENTRE Festival in Midwest Brazil
ENTRE, is a Portuguese verb in the imperative tense that invites us to enter. That says to us:...
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The Brazilian Experience with Different Forms of Technopresence in Theatre: Os Satyros and SP Escola de Teatro
Praça Roosevelt (Roosevelt Square) is a square located in downtown São Paulo. It was a historic...
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How British Theatre Censorship Laws Have Inadvertently Created a Rich Archive of Black History
In an age of so-called “cancel culture” it’s important to remember that for much of British...
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When Nobel Met Booker: Dario Fo, Barry Unsworth, and One Shambolic Italian Summer
The summer of 1985 is oppressive around the medieval Italian town of Gubbio. Thick heat is held...
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A Director’s Reflection: “Crimea 5 am” at The Kiln Theatre
Before the war, in what now feels like another lifetime but in reality is just over a year ago, I...
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Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive 2022
During a summer of uncertainty and anxiety for American theatres and artists alike, a cohort of...
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Unjust Laughter: Representations of Equity-Deserving Groups in Contemporary Iraqi Comedy
Introduction The ongoing unsettling shift of my identity from a “white” Iraqi back home (in Iraq)...
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Glitches, Memes and Playbackshows: Performance in the Post-internet Era
Drag is gaining popularity and visibility at a rapid pace. With the body as a canvas and the...
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How I Reunited the Most Important Documents in English Theater History for the First Time in 200 Years
Most of what we know about the beginnings of English professional theater as a financial...
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4 Plays that Dramatize the Kidnapping of Children During Wars
Since February 2022, Western and Ukrainian media have reported on the kidnapping and forced...
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Four of Shakespeare’s Plays and How They Speak to the Current Political Situation in Britain
The last few years in politics have gifted the keen observer many allusions to some of...
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Happy Birthday, Dracula!
Dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the legendary hero of the famous gothic novel “Dracula”,...
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Refugees in Berlin (Excerpts From a Sort of Berlin Diary)
Dmitry Troyanovsky is a theatre and opera director living in Boston, MA. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine...
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Remembering Joan Littlewood (6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002)
Since 2015, a large bronze statue has stood outside the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Raised on a...
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How Drama Can Help Open Up Conversations on Suicide for Young People in Post-Pandemic Times
Suicide is the second highest cause of death in 15-to-29-year-olds around the world, according to...
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