“Buggy Baby” at The Yard Theatre: How Can You Represent Trauma in The Theatre?
How can you represent trauma in the theatre? Let’s count the ways: the naturalistic way tells a...
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Gore Vidal’s “The Best Man” at The Playhouse Theatre: Is It Possible to Get Too Much of American Politics?
Is it possible to get too much of American politics? With Donald Trump’s daily tweets invading our...
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“How Black Mother’s Say I Love You” Dissects Mother-Daughter Relationship
“I love you” doesn’t slip easily from Daphne’s tongue. But they are words that her grown...
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“Jubilee” at The Lyric Hammersmith: Adapting Punk Classic
The late Derek Jarman’s 1978 film Jubilee is a punk classic. I think he was in his Fellini phase,...
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“The Second Woman”: A 24-Hour Lesson in the Gendered Performance of Intimacy
The idea that femininity is a social performance, while masculinity simply sets the coordinates...
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From the Space-Race to Filial Tensions, Robert Lepage’s “The Far Side of the Moon” Explores Reconciliation
In The Far Side of the Moon, Philippe and Andre, two estranged brothers, deal with the aftermath...
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Interpreting The Epics
The Tenkutittu and Badagutittu traditional theatre styles of coastal Karnataka come alive. The...
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“Memorial” Is A Shattering Excavation Of The Scars Of War Through Poetry, Dance, And Mind Blowing Score
Arthur Danto, in his Analytic Philosophy of History, calls the common noun “scar” a...
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Unfulfilled Dreams, Stunning Portraits
Bharatmuni Rang Utsav saw some moving productions highlighting moral dilemmas and disturbing...
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The Great War and Kings of War Journey from the Kill Zone to the Map Room
Two plays about war, one utilizing children’s toys, the other blank verse. In many ways,...
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“The White Card”: An Attempt To Communicate
The White Card, Claudia Rankine’s play on racism is having its world premiere at Boston’s...
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Dunedin’s Arcade Theatre Company And “Fold:” An Absurdist Production For A Post-Truth Era
The newest theatre company to emerge from Dunedin, New Zealand’s funky, eclectic arts scene is...
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Still Unsettling: The Continuing Power of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart”
Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart is a play fueled by anger. Anger at the political, medical and...
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Contemporary “Electra” by DumbWise at The Bunker Theatre
Electra is the protagonist in two Ancient Greek tragedies, one by Sophocles and the other by...
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“Amy And The Orphans”: Down Syndrome Psychodrama?
Lindsey Ferrentino has done a marvelous thing in conceiving a substantial and nuanced lead...
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Life Isn’t a Beach in “Einstein in the Carpark”
If the avant garde director Robert Wilson died and went to purgatory, Einstein in the Carpark is...
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The Bathroom Play: Georgia Christou’s “Yous Two” at The Hampstead Theatre
Theatre is a business as well as a craft. In an age of austerity cuts, and at a time when most...
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Warsaw’s Teatr 21 At POLIN: Passover Is A Celebration Of Freedom
Pesach or Passover is the most widely observed Jewish holiday and arguably the most joyful....
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“La Principessa Della Czarda”: Do You Know What Operetta Is?
Do you know what operetta is? Literally, it indicates a small opera, mostly in one act, with a...
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“Y Tad” – Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru (A Welsh Translation of Florian Zeller’s “The Father”)
Terry Eagleton reminds us that in order for tragedy to occur, then the protagonist must be in...
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