“Loud Whispers” Stage Play: New Hope for Nigerian Theatre
Theatre in Nigeria was reborn on Workers` day – Sunday, May 1st when Comedy maestro Ali Baba,...
Read MoreTheatre in Nigeria was reborn on Workers` day – Sunday, May 1st when Comedy maestro Ali Baba,...
Read MorePosted by Matthew Lockitt | 3rd Mar 2016 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Review
Original Australian musical theatre seems to be a relatively well-kept secret. The existing...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 27th Feb 2016 | Adaptation, Japan, Review
In 2014, rising playwright and director Kenichi Tani translated Harold Pinter’s Old Times for an...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 25th Feb 2016 | Japan, Playwriting, Review
“At last, the masterpiece Yakiniku Dragon (Korean Barbecue Dragon) is going to be staged again!”...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 25th Jan 2016 | Japan, Review, Theatre and Dance
“Many people have a preconception about butoh — that it is performed by dancers whose bodies...
Read MorePosted by Alana Lentin | 22nd Jan 2016 | Australia, Devised Theatre, Review
Before even entering the Drama Theatre at the Sydney Opera House on the opening night of All The...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 16th Jan 2016 | Acting, Japan, Review
Tokyo was bathed in warm sunshine in the run-up to 2016, and when Takehiro Hira meets me at a...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 24th Nov 2015 | Directing, Review, Russia
After a 24 year hiatus, Russian director Kama Ginkas has again stepped into one of the most famous...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
Read MorePosted by Marina Shimadina | 10th Jul 2015 | Directing, Review, Russia
The world premiere of a groundbreaking new production by Robert Wilson took place at Moscow’s...
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