“The Iliad” at Betty Nansen Theatre, Copenhagen
It’s about two years since I moved to the Oresund region, the liminal place between southern...
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“Love”—A Dissenting View
Alexander Zeldin’s Love— a much-celebrated, quietly confrontational, British-devised piece from...
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“All Night Long” by Chantal Akerman
Dance, the maternal and the push and pull against the form. The feature length film Toute une nuit...
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The Envy of Baz Luhrmann: A Parkside “Romeo + Juliet” to Remember
It can be difficult to gain contemporary audience for Shakespearean performance. Though the Bard’s...
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“Sex Magick”: This Gender-Bending, Time-Traveling Play Invites You to Detangle Love and Sex
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl and follows her to India. Boy has a transformative...
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You Came to See the Obscene?—”2020: Obscene”
Alexandra Bachzetsis’s latest group performance, 2020: Obscene, estranges the word obscene from...
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Bjørg Vik’s “The Journey To Venice” At the Finborough Theatre: Norwegian Memory Play Is Tender If Slight
Bjørg Vik’s The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre: Norwegian memory play is tender if slight
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Remembering A Silenced Teacher: Xavier Bobés And Alberto Conejero’s “El Mar. Visión De Unos Niños Que No Lo Han Visto Nunca”/”The Sea. Vision Of Some Children Who Have Never Seen It”
Xavier Bobés is one of those remarkable artists able to conjure a world through a few objects that...
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Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini’s “Sleepova” at the Bush Theatre: Rather Predictable, but Fun Show about Coming of Age
Is anyone still nostalgic about their teen years? The coming-of-age drama is a staple of...
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Prototype Festival: “Mary Motorhead/Trade” and “In Our Daughter’s Eyes”
It has been so challenging to write these reviews of three recent works presented as part of the...
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“Trouble In Butetown” at the Donmar Warehouse
With the fast-approaching anniversary of the latest war in Europe, our culture’s continued...
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Friendship And Its Discontents: Juan Mayorga’s “Amistad”
Juan Mayorga, one of Spain’s most decorated dramatists — a member of Spain’s Spanish Royal Academy...
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“Much Ado About Nothing:” National Youth Theatre Gives Shakespeare the Love Island Treatment
“What’s your type on paper?” is frequently asked by contestants on the popular reality dating...
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Brecht, Kabarett, and Pussy Riot: The Impact of AnomalousCo’s “(beyond) Doomsday Scrolling”
Entering the theatre at HERE Arts, there is already a sense of broken ground. My companion and I...
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More Than 2,000 People from Wittenoom Died of Asbestos-Related Diseases. A Powerful and Compelling Requiem Brings Their Story to the Stage
Deep in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia, the town of Wittenoom lies empty,...
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Laura Horton’s “Breathless” at the Soho Theatre: Slender but Heartfelt Account of Hoarding
The female monologue is a well-established contemporary theatre form, but often the content is...
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Josep Maria Pou Excels In a Minimalist Catalan-language Production of Florian Zeller’s “The Father”
Florian Zeller’s The Father, first produced in 2012, remains a timely play for various reasons. It...
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“Phaedra” at The National Theatre
How can old texts speak to us now? The point is not just to adapt classics, but to reimagine them...
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Àlex Rigola’s Lean, Mean Riff on “Hedda Gabler”
Catalan director Àlex Rigola, the former artistic director of the Venice Biennale’s theatre...
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The Geography of Theatre Imagination: A New “Endgame” at a New Irish Theatre Festival
Much of my approach to theatre, to performance, especially, consists in locating and assessing a...
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