“The Most Daring Adventure Is Practicing Theater Remotely.” An Interview With Telematic Theater Pioneer Marina Hanganu [Part II]
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. Hayel Ali Al-Mathabi: In light of this...
Read MorePosted by Hayel Ali Al-Mathabi | 18th Sep 2024 | Interview, Romania, Transcultural Collaborations, Transmedia
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. Hayel Ali Al-Mathabi: In light of this...
Read MorePosted by Hayel Ali Al-Mathabi | 18th Sep 2024 | Interview, Romania, Transcultural Collaborations, Transmedia
Marina Hanganu is a theatre director, cultural manager and researcher exploring the intersection...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Sep 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Although the idea of deporting people to Rwanda as a punishment is now, following the defeat of...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 11th Sep 2024 | Interview, Iraq, Theatre and Gender
Awatif Naeem is an award-winning TV and theatre actress, director, playwright, and critic. She...
Read MorePosted by Kasia Lech | 7th Sep 2024 | Czech Republic, Essay, New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Theatre for Young Audiences, United Kingdom
Theatre for broadly understood young audiences (0-16 years) is one of the most important cultural...
Read MorePosted by Zuzanna Madurska and Jacky Lie-A-Njoek | 7th Sep 2024 | New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Poland, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, Ukraine
In Poland, the war is no longer just the national memory and has been present in our everyday life...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Sep 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Adultery is the great staple of modern British playwriting. The anguish of marriage, and the...
Read MorePosted by Tessa Coenen and Zuzanna Madurska | 6th Sep 2024 | New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Poland, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences
Introduction Gdzie Jest Tata? (Where is Daddy?) as seen at the New Theatre for Children Festival...
Read MorePosted by Yizhou Zhang | 5th Sep 2024 | Germany, South Africa, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Decolonization
This summer, Berlin’s Volksbühne presented The Visitors, a new work by the choreographer Constanza...
Read MorePosted by Tessa Coenen | 4th Sep 2024 | New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Poland, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences
The story about Koko the gorilla who learns sign language has been well documented in scientific...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 4th Sep 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Every year at the Edinburgh Fringe, Paines Plough, a UK touring company specialised in...
Read MorePosted by Zuzanna Madurska | 2nd Sep 2024 | New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Poland, Review, Slovakia
Creating theatre for the very young – one that can hold their attention, stimulate the right...
Read MorePosted by Maria Karaś, Jacky Lie-An-Joek and Tessa Coenen | 2nd Sep 2024 | New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Poland, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences
The play Drapando, czyli Atak Zamszałego Starucha (Drapando, or the attack of the mossy old man)...
Read MorePosted by Meeke van Raak | 1st Sep 2024 | New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Poland, Review, Slovakia
Púpätko is a beautiful show where sensory play meets nature. The show, aimed at children of 6...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 31st Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Italy, Review, United Kingdom
New plays can derive from many sources: a vivid imagination, novels, diaries, real-life episodes,...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 31st Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Review, Scotland
A cast of young actors from diverse parts of the globe brought Malvolio’s Fantasy to the Space...
Read MorePosted by Xunnan Li | 30th Aug 2024 | China, Review, Theatre and Politics
In 2024, National Theatre of China in Beijing showcased an experimental avant-garde theatre work “Apple Tree” to talk about the tension in the contemporary marriage between a young Chinese couple. Their tension in the marriage was reflected when the wife is suffering from the unexpected miscarriage.The play is such a transnational one. The director Feng was educated in France when he was young, with established exposure to the French film and theatre. In this play and his previous productions, there are huge amount of Roland’s style of using montage and space changing.
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 29th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Review, United Kingdom
With nearly 4000 shows at hundreds of venues in the city, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a kind...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 29th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
As part of Here and Now, a new Arts Council England showcase, Tim Etchells, artistic director of...
Read MorePosted by Xunnan Li | 28th Aug 2024 | China, Chinese Theatre Abroad, Edinburgh 2024, Review
Adapted from Lu Xun’s novel, the play takes the same name, “Zhu Jian” (Forging the Swords), and has become one of the most popular productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024. The work was brought to Edinburgh by a group of student actors from the Central Academy of Drama in China. Director Fengrui Yang is currently pursuing his doctoral training at the Academy. The play is notable for its re-examination of the theme of vengeance, a central idea in Lu Xun’s novel. Lu Xun is one of the most influential authors in modern China featured with his social criticism writing style in the 1920s.
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