“Prah” Premiere: Kasia Wroblewska Reviews György Spiro’s New Play
Ignition Stage, a small professional theatre company from Manchester, have taken upon themselves...
Read MorePosted by Robin Ashenden | 15th May 2014 | Hungary, Review
Ignition Stage, a small professional theatre company from Manchester, have taken upon themselves...
Read MorePosted by Iryna Chuzhynova | 20th Apr 2014 | Review, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
During the several months of protests in Kyiv Maidan a group of young dramatists who call...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 31st Mar 2014 | Australia, Directing, Review
Love is a battlefield. While Pat Benatar might have made this line her own in the 1980s,...
Read MorePosted by Anna Teresa Scheer | 11th Mar 2014 | Australia, Review, Sydney, Theatre and Disability
This week, Back to Back Theatre‘s 2012 production Ganesh Versus The Third Reich will open at...
Read MorePosted by Christine Judith Nicholls | 10th Mar 2014 | Adaptation, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Netherlands, Review, Theatre and Politics, Transmedia
Over six hours, three Shakespearean tragedies – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony And...
Read MorePosted by Stuart Richards | 16th Feb 2014 | Australia, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review
British playwright Mike Bartlett’s contemporary comedy of manners Cock opened on the Melbourne...
Read MorePosted by Harry Ricketts | 12th Feb 2014 | New Zealand, Review
Historically, geographically, culturally – there are many points of comparison between Australia...
Read MorePosted by Ian Maxwell | 30th Jan 2014 | Australia, Devised Theatre, Festivals, Review, Sydney
The rules of Cadavre Exquis are basic. Four directors, each responsible for 15 minutes of...
Read MorePosted by Dara Weinberg | 28th Jan 2014 | Essay, Poland, Review
The group of visual artists and actors who comprise the surrealist dance-theater Teatr...
Read MorePosted by David Williams | 25th Jan 2014 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Sydney
In August 2012, I was invited by the Sydney Festival to work with Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director...
Read MorePosted by Amanda Card | 20th Jan 2014 | Festivals, Review, Sydney, Transcultural Collaborations
There is speculation that the taiko drum was first used by soldiers in battle. At its best, Chi...
Read MorePosted by Julian Murphet | 15th Jan 2014 | Australia, Festivals, Netherlands, Review, Sydney
An unnamed woman alone in an apartment conducts an increasingly panicked conversation on the...
Read MorePosted by Helena Grehan and Peter Eckersall | 20th Nov 2013 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Disability
Super Discount – currently playing at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre – is the latest work by...
Read MorePosted by Tatiana Rubleva | 2nd Nov 2013 | Review, Russia, Theatre and Dance
Anglo-Russian dance sensation marries ice-skating and theater in their production of Nutcracker on...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 30th Oct 2013 | Directing, Kama Ginkas Black Monk, Review, Russia
Of all the theatrical languages that coexist in Moscow, director Kama Ginkas is an intonation unto himself. You can hear it in his actors’ speech. “They often speak not as they do in life or even on stage for another...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 12th Sep 2013 | Japan, Review, Russia, Transcultural Collaborations
“I have rarely seen a great production of any Chekhov play in Japan. Sometimes, I’ve even wanted...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 25th Apr 2013 | Review, Russia, Theatre and Politics
A play in which the privileged are out of touch and the poor are getting poorer is all too apt in...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Mar 2013 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Science is an area of perennial fascination for the theatre. In the past, plays as various as Tom...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 4th Jan 2013 | Adaptation, Review, Russia
A traditional version of Anton Chekhov’s play gets West End glamor and charm but lacks conviction....
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 20th Nov 2012 | Adaptation, Review, Russia
Chekhov’s timeless exploration of youth, aging, and the desire for fame sprouts fresh wings in an...
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