Tracing With Body And Music In Jeff Ho’s “Trace”
In his debut as playwright, Jeff Ho presents a solo piece that explores his family history through...
Read MorePosted by Shelley Liebembuk | 3rd Dec 2017 | Canada, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender
In his debut as playwright, Jeff Ho presents a solo piece that explores his family history through...
Read MorePosted by Dena Al-Adeeb | 3rd Dec 2017 | Iraq, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Film
The Taste of Displacement (2014) is a video project and an experimental performance piece that...
Read MorePosted by Baharak Sahami | 2nd Dec 2017 | Directing, Iran, Review
Mrs. Pistols is an outstanding example of an Iranian play that meets the intellectual and...
Read MorePosted by Davide Cioffrese | 1st Dec 2017 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
Sam Mendes–Oscar-winning Sam Mendes (American Beauty [1999])–has confirmed it: in 2018, he will be...
Read MorePosted by Leigh Boucher | 30th Nov 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Review
Muriel Heslop occupies a precious position in Australian cultural life. She is, perhaps, our...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 29th Nov 2017 | Acting, Directing, Japan, Review
As the saying goes, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” In the same way, if you thought the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 29th Nov 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine, United Kingdom
War is morally acidic: it dissolves social rules, loosens inhibitions and gives permission to men...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 28th Nov 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Julia Cho’s Office Hour began life as a reaction to the 2007 mass-shooting at Virginia Tech. It...
Read MorePosted by Zolima Citymag | 28th Nov 2017 | China, Hong Kong, Review, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Film
Among Hong Kong’s artists, designers, playwrights and stage directors are polymaths who somehow...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Nov 2017 | Acting, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
One defining characteristic of Englishness is social awkwardness, and its emotional register is an...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 26th Nov 2017 | Festivals, India, Puppetry, Review
Anurupa Roy’s contemporary retelling of the epic uses a melange of cultural influences to focus on...
Read MorePosted by Khaleem Ali | 26th Nov 2017 | Boston, France, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
“[It] is utterly useless to accuse my characters of being symbolical,” wrote Albert Camus...
Read MorePosted by James Rowson | 25th Nov 2017 | Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation, United Kingdom
This November, the Royal Court Theatre in London stages the global premiere of Ukrainian...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Nov 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Asylum is one of the most emotive words in the English language. It evokes valleys of pain,...
Read MorePosted by Mara Valderrama | 24th Nov 2017 | Review, Spain
The Ambigú is a tiny space in the Pavón Kamikaze theatre in Madrid; a large hallway bar that often...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Nov 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Lizzie Clachan’s set is a simple stone floor slanting downwards towards the audience in a warm...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 23rd Nov 2017 | Festivals, India, Review
Far from the creaky floorboards and blazing arc lamps of the makeshift prosceniums of Faridabad,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Nov 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Harry Potter has a lot to answer for. The phenomenal success of JK Rowling’s books, and of their...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 21st Nov 2017 | Collaborating Across Cultures, Japan, Review, United Kingdom
One Green Bottle is a new-ish work co-written by the renowned Japanese dramatist Hideki Noda and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Nov 2017 | Acting, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Continental drama, in this era of Brexit negotiations, seems to be rarer and rarer on British...
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