Actor on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: “El Brote” (The Break) at Santiago a Mil
El Brote (The Break) is the tale of an actor who doesn’t feel he’s had the career breaks his...
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Performance and Politics: “Parlamento” (Parliament) Storms Santiago a Mil
Piel de Lava have been making work for 20 years and it shows. Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa,...
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Making a Film on Santiago’s Streets: “Efectos especiales” at Santiago a Mil
Think of a film set where the audience gathered on the streets are not fully aware that they are...
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Depression and discontents: Daniel Veronese’s staging of “La persona deprimida” (The Depressed Person) at Santiago a Mil
I read David Foster Wallace’s short story The Depressed Person soon after it was published in...
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From 1984 to 2024: Teatro Ictus’s “Primavera Con Una Esquina Rota” (Springtime In a Broken Mirror) at Santiago a Mil
Primavera con una esquina rota (Springtime in a broken mirror) has acquired a legendary status....
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“María Isabel” at Santiago a Mil: Staging Political Agency
How does one “write” a life for the stage? This question lies at the heart of Ana Luz...
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More Sickly Mansions
There are lots of reasons Americans have always loved family-dustup plays and exalted them with...
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Miguel del Arco’s “Rigoletto” at Madrid’s Teatro Real: In-Yer-Face Opera for In-Yer-Face Times
I am going to be honest. I didn’t see Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Real. I had wanted and planned to...
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Jack Thorne’s “The Motive and the Cue” at the Noël Coward Theatre: Jack Thorne’s History Play About Gielgud And Burton Transfers To The West End
This transfer of Jack Thorne’s hit National Theatre play to the West End has been hailed as...
Read More“Faded:” Beyond the Dance
Nabaggala Lillian Maximilian has outdone herself by covering a lot of ground recently. A few months ago, she premiered a dance theatre production, Nambi, and exhibited a short film, Faded in Berlin. And barely a month after the...
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At the End of the Land: an avalanche of images that invites us to sit alone in time and space together
At the End of the Land, a world premiere production by Western Australian interdisciplinary...
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The Opening of Barcelona’s Newest Theatre: Àlex Rigola Stages Thomas Bernhard’s “L’home De Teatre”
The relationship between theatre and life has been pervaded the work of dramatists from...
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Cuban Just So Stories
Buena Vista Social Club—a wonderfully infectious and sexy collection of golden-age Cuban music...
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“Vudú (3318) Blixen” or a Complex Naïve Way to Exorcise Pain
There is nothing like going to a world premiere. Being one of the first to see something brand...
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“Macbeth” at the Donmar Warehouse
How to render Macbeth anew—and how to do it well? It’s a question that has undoubtedly preoccupied...
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Coronada and the Bull Return to the Stage
Francisco Nieva (1924-2016) ranks amongst the most respected Spanish playwrights of the second...
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Desiré Festival 2023: Poetics of Andraš Urban, Circus of Marko Mandić, God of Jernej Lorenci
The international, regional festival of contemporary theatre Desiré, which takes place in Subotica...
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David Ireland’s “Ulster American” at the Riverside Studios
An American actor, an English director, and a Northern Irish playwright walk into a house in...
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Another World. Mihail Sebastian’s “A Star without a Name” at PM Theater
Cruel war rages on without an end; another bloody war has just started. This is our world today....
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Timelier Every Day: Kazimierska’s “Katie’s Tales”
“I do not know how to write,” Agnieszka Kazimierska’s Katie tells her audience. At this...
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