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“Teeth” Bites Back Against Purity Culture: On Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacob’s Musical
Last year I went to the dentist for a toothache and was told that somehow, to my extreme...
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“Brother-Brother” by Cheta Igbokwe: A Quest for Long Lives Leads to Quick Deaths
Nigerian playwright, Cheta Igbokwe, is a prolific young writer. This I find amazing, especially...
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Love, Loss And Tears – But Also Laughter: Belvoir’s Compelling And Skilful Staging Of “Holding The Man”
Walking through Chippendale on my way to Sydney’s Belvoir Street Theatre, where this production of...
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The Ally at the Public Theater in New York: Back to the Agora
Can one truly be sympathetic until the ultimate consequences to the problems of someone who is not...
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Doubtless Doubt
Whatever your opinion of the profundity of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning 2005...
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“I Killed My Mother/It Wasn’t My Fault.” Which Way Does One Get to Come-of-Age?
The question of universality faces entire series of utterly new answers, but not all of them find...
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A Triple Bill on Desire and its Discontents: “La Voix Humaine”, “Erwartung” and Something in Between at Madrid’s Teatro Real
There are a number of firsts in the new Teatro Real production triple bill that brings together...
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Alfredo Sanzol Stages Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba”: Simmering Passions, Solitude and Surveillance
The 2023/2024 season has proved the year of Bernarda Albas. Lorca’s 1936 drama was completed only...
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Respect And Disrespect Clash Throughout 37 – A Brilliant New Play Exploring Australian Rules Football
Guernsey number 37 belonged to Aboriginal star football player Adam Goodes when he played for...
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“Haywire:” An Unsettling Account On Mental Health Issues
When Chenura Trust a Zimbabwean media company announced that they were working on a theatrical...
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“ANGELA (a Strange Loop)”: The Wild and Wonderful World of Susanne Kennedy
Susanne Kennedy doesn’t do things by half. When she creates a world, it has its own logic, its own...
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Find Your Voice, Loud and Clear: Musical “Il Tenore” Review
It is 1930s Kyeongseong (what Seoul was called during the Japanese occupation), and the colonial...
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“London Zoo,” Southwark Playhouse
Before the internet, newspapers were central to the national conversation in Britain. By the first...
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“The Bald Soprano,” French Absurd Theater Becomes a German Contemporary Opera Buffa
There are some myths about the opera that are not true. Firstly, that young people do not like...
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Tim Price’s “Nye” at the National Theatre: A Fun Life of the Creator of the National Health Service
For me, this is the most emotional show on the London stage. Why’s that? Because it’s about Nye...
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“This Is Our Home” – Online Theatre Three Years Later
The performance follows four women in different parts of Ukraine, at various distances from the...
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Lucy Kirkwood’s “The Human Body” at the Donmar Warehouse: Twin Tales of Illicit Love and the Founding of the National Health Service
It’s election year so the gaze of British theatre turns towards the National Health Service. But,...
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Marius von Mayenburg’s Nachtland at the Young Vic: Satire on Art and Anti-Semitism Is Both Absurdist and Unsettling
We’ve all heard of the metaphorical madwoman in the attic, but what about the symbolic unexploded...
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In Poor Voice
Call me clueless, but I wasn’t aware, before seeing Mona Pirnot’s new play I Love You So Much I...
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