Review: “Antigone” at the New Diorama Theatre
In her contemporary re-working of Sophocles’ tragedy, Lulu Raczka has chosen to forego the...
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Alexandra Wood’s “The Tyler Sisters” at the Hampstead Theatre: The Future Is Female In Epic Family Saga
What has Saint Augustine of Hippo got to do with new writing? At first sight, not very much. That...
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“Magdalene” at Prototype Festival
What are the first words you think of when you hear the name Mary Magdalene? Prostitute? Saved?...
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“Cyrano De Bergerac” at The Playhouse Theatre
Actor James McAvoy is much in demand: in the BBC’s His Dark Materials he is busy saving a parallel...
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A Space Divided: GCTC’s “Cottagers and Indians” an Evocative Disavowal of White Privilege
The split is clear upon first glance. He wears muddy jeans and rain boots, while she dons...
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“Chicago:” Presenting Crime as a Show
Chicago combines passion, adultery, crime, murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation and...
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Groundbreaking Festival of Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa: Inaugural Season
Under the direction of Kevin Loring in collaboration with artistic associate Lindsay Lachance, the...
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“Touching the Void” at The Duke of York’s Theatre
Theatre can touch thousands of lives. But can it compete with the success of a bestselling book?...
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Kitchen Aromas and Angels with Water Guns: Japanese Visual Storytelling Comes Alive at OzAsia
Review: The Dark Master and Totes Adorbs ♥ Hurricane, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, 22 October...
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“A Kind of People” at The Royal Court
The trouble with prejudice is that you can’t control how other people see you. At the start of her...
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“Trojan Horse” at the Battersea Arts Centre
Media hysteria needs good branding. So when in March 2014 an email letter was leaked to the press,...
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The Democracy of a Whale Ship (and then a Vaudeville)
Moby-Dick at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA For those who are not familiar with...
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“Casablanca:” We’ll Always Have the Radio!!!
Gone are the days when, on a cold winter night, the family gathered around a fire to listen to the...
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“The Arrival” at The Bush Theatre
Family dramas are a staple of British new writing, but as well as talking about our nearest and...
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“Rhinoceros” by Eugène Ionesco: A Novella
Rhinoceros (1959) is one of Eugène Ionesco’s best-known plays, one of the plays with which the...
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“Queen-Size:” Blurring the Lines Between Public and Private
Single Performance: Queen-Size, by Sandbox Collective, a dance-performance at Spaces, Chennai,...
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“Macondo” in New York: Russian Theatre Brings Márquez’s Epic to Life
A thread of life and blood, unconditional love and death, incest and destiny all interconnect in...
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Teatr Brama’s “Ghost Dance”
In the main Sala of the Vorpommen Theater in Greifswald, northern Germany, a row of bare-footed...
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Re-visiting Sartre with a Pacific Twist: “Uma Lava” by Victor Rodger
Uma Lava by Victor Rodger, Circa Theatre, Wellington. 23 November – 7 December 2019. Directed by...
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“Shakespeare’s Will” at Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh PA, USA
When William Shakespeare died in 1616, he left behind dozens of plays and hundreds of poems, but...
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