Electra Takes Revenge into Her Own Hands
In Han Tae-sook’s Electra (LG Arts Center, April 26–May 5, 2018), the mourning daughter doesn’t...
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Voodoo Macbeth? Heir apparent of the Denmark Corporation in Manhattan? A pair of star-crossed...
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“La Cerisaie”: Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard” With New Secrets
La Cérisaie (The Cherry Tree/The Cherry Orchard) presented by the Belgian company TG STAN (i.e....
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Thou Art Translated! How Shakespeare Went Viral
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when Peter Quince sees Bottom turned into an ass-headed figure, he...
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Myth, Motherhood, And Desperation in Modern Adaptation of Lorca’s “Yerma”
Last Monday, about forty minutes into the final preview of Yerma at the Park Avenue Armory—Simon...
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“The Black Monk”: Dramatism And A Large Dose Of Slapstick
Of all the great Russian writers of the second half of the nineteenth century, none perfected the...
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“Goodbye, Mr. Yi Sang”: Seoul Performing Arts Company’s New Experiment
Theatre adaptations of novels are on the rise this season. Of course, this is nothing new....
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“Lessons Learnt” By A Professional Translator–Adapting The Same Play Three Times Over Three Years
I have just finished translating Mikhail Durnenkov’s The War Hasn’t Yet Started for the third time...
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Dairakudakan’s “Unearthly” Butoh Meets A Tortured Russian tale
Following a January press conference in which the New National Theatre, Tokyo, announced that...
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American Actors Give New Voice To French Theater
As a young French director visiting New York with his theater troupe, Paul Desveaux hardly...
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“Jubilee” at The Lyric Hammersmith: Adapting Punk Classic
The late Derek Jarman’s 1978 film Jubilee is a punk classic. I think he was in his Fellini phase,...
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“Memorial” Is A Shattering Excavation Of The Scars Of War Through Poetry, Dance, And Mind Blowing Score
Arthur Danto, in his Analytic Philosophy of History, calls the common noun “scar” a...
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Discussion On The Greatest Theatrical Scandal Of 2017: “Klątwa” At The Powszechny Theatre In Warsaw
Kasia Lech (KL): How could we introduce Klątwa [The Curse] and its context to someone for whom the...
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Contemporary “Electra” by DumbWise at The Bunker Theatre
Electra is the protagonist in two Ancient Greek tragedies, one by Sophocles and the other by...
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I Wanted To Remove The Language Of Gender: Hindi Adaptation of Lorca’s “Yerma”
Mahesh Dattani explores the symbolism, futurism and surreal influences of Spanish dramatist...
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“Y Tad” – Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru (A Welsh Translation of Florian Zeller’s “The Father”)
Terry Eagleton reminds us that in order for tragedy to occur, then the protagonist must be in...
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Chris Goode’s “Jubilee” – The State of The (Punk) Nation
The idea here is both exquisitely complex and wonderfully simple. On the one hand, Chris Goode’s...
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Molière’s “The School For Wives” At The City Garage Theatre, Santa Monica
Los Angeles can be a tricky theatre city to pin down. Though we do have a theatre district it is...
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Rude Mechs’ Experiment With Dostoevsky’s “Brothers Karamazov”
Rude Mechs, an Austin-based ensemble in their twenty-first year of collective creation, recently...
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“I Feel As If I’m Loosing My Leaves:” Translatability Of Theme Through Language In Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru’s Production Of Florian Zeller’s “Y Tad”
The universality of Florian Zeller’s undiminished modern masterpiece The Father has ceased...
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