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Part two of Boris Yukhananov’s dazzling trilogy sees actors Vladimir Korenev and Aleftina Konstantinova weaving in and out of character as Tyltyl and Mytyl on the search for the Blue Bird of happiness. This production was captured by the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre in Moscow and presented in partnership with Stage Russia HD.

Two children embark on a whirlwind adventure to find the Blue Bird of happiness in part one of Boris Yukhananov’s epic trilogy, based on Maurice Maeterlinck’s mystical play. This production was captured by the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre in Moscow and presented in partnership with Stage Russia HD, and features the reminiscences of Russian actors Vladimir Korenev and Aleftina Konstantinova.

A young mother is taken by the Intelligence Services for interrogation in this popular comedy that comes with a warning for the Facebook generation. This witty production was captured by Australian National Theatre Live at Sydney’s famous Ensemble Theatre.

Based on Georg Büchner’s play, Woyzeck, this retelling follows the unfortunate Boichek who, after working tirelessly to earn a living, is pushed to his limits upon hearing rumours of his wife’s infidelity.

When her husband dies, aging Miss Helen begins to fill her home in the remote South African bush with strange sculptures made from beer cans and old headlights. A local clergyman and a young woman visitor try to decide whether Miss Helen’s peculiar art is an outpouring of creativity or an outbreak of madness.

10BY10 is a project developed and produced by Eclipse Theatre – Britain’s leading black-led national touring company.
10 writers. 10 cities. 10 films. A homeless man walks the streets of Sheffield collecting ‘treasures’ amongst the litter.

We’re All Good was directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna based on the play by Dorota Masłowska, commissioned by TR Warszawa and Berlin’s Schopenhauer am Lehniner Platz.The piece is a masterful exposition of the language of advertisements, glossy magazines, and tabloids; it confronts consumptionist dreams with the reality of a family living below the poverty line. All of this is merely a shell beneath which a more serious question lies: a question about the “us” in the title, about national identity, tradition, and memory.

The Shakespeare’s play, directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna, is set on an American military base in present-day Iraq. The televised version of the play was produced in 2006, just a month before the demolition of the Warsaw Waryński Factory complex, which had served as the stage for 2007: Macbeth ever since the play’s premiere. The pervasively claustrophobic interiors where the increasingly psychotic Macbeth spends his days strongly emphasized the liminal psychological condition of the protagonist.

Rafael Bonachela emerged as a leading dancer with Rambert Dance Company during the 1990s and in 2006 founded Bonachela Dance Company. Rafael is now artistic director of Sydney Dance Company. Rafael originally conceived the piece The Land of Yes and the Land of No, an emblematic integration of contemporary and classical dance, for a traditional theatre space. As an exclusive collaboration with HiBROW, Rafael took The Land of Yes and the Land of No outdoors, to the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral.

In this ambitious international collaboration, Frantic Assembly present Andrew Bovell’s heart-breaking depiction of family life. Captured live by Digital Theatre, Things I Know To Be True is co-produced by Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company South Australia with Warwick Arts Centre, and in association with Chichester Festival Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith.

Winner of the 2008 Olivier Award for Best New Play, A Disappearing Number tells the true story of the extraordinary collaboration between Cambridge professor G.H. Hardy and self-taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. This production was devised by Complicité and directed by Simon McBurney.

Krzysztof Warlikowski’s (A)pollonia is based on classical and contemporary texts, primarily, excerpts from Euripides’ Alcestis, the Oresteia by Aeschylus, and Hanna Krall’s Pola. The erudite script also includes fragments of Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes, J.M Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, Rabidranath Tagore’s drama The Post Office, and more. By bringing together these texts, Warlikowski seeks to shed light on the ambiguous and somber history of sacrifice, and self-sacrifice – giving up one’s life for another – in particular. Stories of mythological characters ruled by Fate are complemented and reflected in twentieth-century experience with its helplessness in the face of the Holocaust. In the act of sacrifice, the executioner becomes no less important than the victim.

Developed in partnership with the Association of Medical Research Charities, the University of Ulster, the NHS Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Screening Programme, and supported by the Wellcome Trust, Dayglo tells the story of two families impacted by illness.

Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” and drawing from recordings of Chekhov’s letters and dreams, this interactive online theater experience accesses the operating system behind both Chekhov’s computer and the world in which his characters live, searching for happiness.
ONE LIVE PERFORMANCE ONLY!
Sunday, May 30 at 11:00am ET | 5:00pm CEST

In Wang’s online version of “Waiting for Godot,” Estragon and Vladimir are two people separated by the pandemic. Covid-19 loomed large in the production. Members of the cast and the production team were scattered in various cities in China, including the epicenter of the pandemic, Wuhan, which was still in hard lockdown. The online theater piece was live-performed and live-streamed in April 2020, drawing a record-breaking 290,000 audience to the single performance.
ONE DAY ONLY! MAY 20!

“Insulted. Belarus” draws from the controversy surrounding Alexander Lukashenko’s highly contested presidential victory in August 2020 against opponent Sviatlana Tikhanovskaya. Statements by Lukashenko and Tikhanovskaya are here interwoven with the interjections of fictional characters, portraying how citizens from all walks of life imagine the future of Belarusian society.

After being immersed in Chinese Traditional Theatre, a boy’s childhood is far more than ordinary. The award-winning short film was completed by ‘Remote on-line directing’ during the 2020 lockdown.

Polish seminal Romantic verse drama “Balladyna” by Juliusz Słowacki is a starting point for creating an innovative story about how technology intertwines with loneliness, fear, obsession, love, and murder in the times of global isolation. EIGHT DAYS ONLY! MAY 24-31

An opera commissioned during the U.K.’s lockdown and designed with social distancing shaping the actors’ performances. The story begins with people gathering for a feast but ends with them killed by the plague.

Through the delicate use of Zoom, Google Earth, and other digital tools, the author invites the viewer to discover a geographical and personal topography of Santiago. Embracing aspects of memory, territory, and emotion, “Reminiscencia” shows the power of theatre to bring people closer at a time where distance and digital presence no longer seem that far apart. SEVEN DAYS ONLY! MAY 24-30