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Brexit Revisited

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Feb 2020 | Essay, London, United Kingdom

“Fetch me ’ammer.” (Edward Bond, Saved) “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with...

Performativity and Worldmaking: An Interview with Chiel M. Kattenbelt

Posted by Ágnes Bakk | 14th Feb 2020 | Interview, Romania, Transmedia

This interview was made within the framework of the exploratory research project rethinking...

“Poet in Da Corner” at The Royal Court

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 13th Feb 2020 | London, Review, Transmedia, United Kingdom

The last time I took my non-theatre-going husband to the Royal Court was in the autumn of 2013,...

“Daddies of Sugar” Pokes Fun at Shenanigans of Modern-Day Ruling Elites

Posted by Tonderai Chiyindiko | 13th Feb 2020 | Africa, Review, South Sudan

Daddies of Sugar with its catchy and somewhat risqué title is Jefferson Tshabalala better known in...

Movie or Musical? “West Side Story” at The Broadway Theatre

Posted by Andrew Agress | 12th Feb 2020 | New York, Review, Theatre and Film, United States of America

It seems that the classic Broadway musical West Side Story may be getting not one but two film...

Al Blyth’s “The Haystack” at the Hampstead Theatre: Not Entirely Believable Surveillance Thriller

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Feb 2020 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Total surveillance: this is the idea that every moment of our waking existence can be spied upon...

“The Sugar Syndrome” at The Orange Tree Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Feb 2020 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Your sweet tooth can get you into trouble. Lots of trouble. In this revival of Lucy Prebble’s...

VR-adaptations: Faithfulness and Interactions

Posted by Ágnes Bakk | 11th Feb 2020 | Hungary, Interview, Transmedia

Mika Johnson is an artist with a background in theatre, but also a film director. Besides this, he...

“Bran Nue Dae” Review: Exceptional Singing And Music Obscure The Political Heart Of This Classic Australian Musical

Posted by Bronwyn Carlson | 10th Feb 2020 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Politics

Review: Bran Nue Dae, by Jimmy Chi and Kuckles and directed by Andrew Ross for Sydney Festival....

Space Opera in New York City

Posted by Marcina Zaccaria | 10th Feb 2020 | New York, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

With a smattering of words, carefully grouped to alert the scholar that collectivism and...

“Little Shop of Horrors” at the Pittsburgh Public Theater in Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Posted by Wendy Arons | 9th Feb 2020 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America

There’s no way Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski could possibly have predicted that the...

Bringing Haruki Murakami’s “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” to Japan’s Stages

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 9th Feb 2020 | Interview, Japan, Transcultural Collaborations

Haruki Murakami is probably Japan’s best-known living writer — a worldwide bestseller with novels...

“Hoot” – Featuring the Inimitable and Versatile Matthew Ribnick is a Rib-Cracking Comedic Masterpiece!

Posted by Tonderai Chiyindiko | 8th Feb 2020 | Acting, Africa, Review, South Africa

Matthew Ribnick is not your average actor and his performance in the highly acclaimed Hoot is...

Druid Shakespeare: “Richard III” – The Voracious Void

Posted by Antigoni Gaitana | 7th Feb 2020 | Design, New York, Review, United States of America

A series of questions filled my mind. What was the motivation behind the choice of sets and costumes? In my opinion, the only thing that really worked well set wise was the ever-present void on stage, the grave downstage in which all bodies were thrown in – a constant reminder of death and of Richard’s deeds.