“King Lear” Reincarnates As Geoffrey Rush–It’s A Bloody Tragedy
In one sense every play staged is a play for its times. Something about it attracts, provokes or...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick and Elizabeth Schafer | 23rd Nov 2015 | Australia, Playwriting, Review
In one sense every play staged is a play for its times. Something about it attracts, provokes or...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 8th Nov 2015 | Australia, Directing, Review
Today, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play that haunts itself. Its saturation into cultural...
Read MorePosted by Camelia Ciobanu | 5th Nov 2015 | Review, Romania
It’s one hundred years since the birth of Gellu Naum, Romania’s greatest Surrealist poet. Two...
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 Kechi Nomu | 31st Oct 2015 | Nigeria, Review
At its worst, Altine’s Wrath, written by Femi Osofisan (one of Nigeria’s better-known playwrights)...
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 David Chisholm | 22nd Oct 2015 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Review
Last night, The Experiment – of which I’m part – opened at the Melbourne Festival. The story of...
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 Asher Warren | 19th Oct 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, Review
The tragedy of Shakespeare’s Desdemona haunts the literary canon. Her murder at the hands of her...
Read MorePosted by Michael Halliwell | 18th Oct 2015 | Australia, Design, Review, Theatre and Opera
What is opera? This is a question that has engaged puzzled commentators and practitioners since...
Read MorePosted by Paul Rae | 15th Oct 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, Review
In Desdemona, Toni Morrison’s response to Shakespeare’s Othello, which opens today at the...
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 Robert Hassan | 14th Oct 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, Melbourne, Review
The blurb for Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s stage adaption of George Orwell’s 1984 for the...
Read MorePosted by Anny Mokotow | 13th Oct 2015 | Australia, Festivals, Melbourne, News, Transcultural Collaborations
Last week, Melbourne Festival opened with a production from the Belgian dance theatre...
Read MorePosted by Yoni Prior | 29th Sep 2015 | Australia, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Disability
When I first travelled overseas, fresh out of university in the early 1980s, I found myself in the...
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 Justyna Wasilewska | 10th Sep 2015 | Acting, Interview, Poland
What were the beginnings of your work with the Garbaczewski & Cecko duo? You met while working...
Read MorePosted by Anna Prosvetova | 30th Aug 2015 | Festivals, Interview, Russia, Ukraine
Kiev’s National Theatre of Russian Drama brings a festival of events celebrating Ukrainian...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 26th Aug 2015 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Some plays are ruled by a single word. It burns through their action, dark as pitch. Watching them...
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