Stratford’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” Unveils An Intriguing Atticus Finch
STRATFORD, Ont.—It didn’t seem such a great idea 11 years ago when the Stratford Festival first...
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Adaptation
Elizabeth Strout: “Nobody Was Even Remotely Interested In My Writing”
The story of Elizabeth Strout is one of creative faith and persistence. Growing up in Maine, “a...
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“The Girl On The Train” Onstage: “We Wanted It To Have The Pace Of A Train Out Of Control”
So what attracted you to the multimillion-selling novel The Girl On The Train? That could be my...
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“Up To Low” Has Universal Appeal!
For Ottawa-area audiences, part of the charm of the theatrical adaptation of Up To Low, by Ottawa...
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Keishi Nagatsuka Navigates Cultural Differences In Bringing Play About Capital Punishment To Japan
For casual fans of film, the name Martin McDonagh only became familiar after the movie he wrote,...
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Adaptation, Participation, Risk-taking: Creative Interventions In Contemporary Performance
Translator and theatre scholar Dr. Jozefina Komporaly reflects on a day of exchange between the...
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Let Sleeping Molière Lie
It is impossible to put it in writing, but to record the horror of the thing here is a black cross...
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The Importance Of “Hamlet”
The Bard’s tale on the machinations of Denmark’s royal family remains his most influential plays...
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Unpacking The Role Of Women In Ibsen’s “The Enemy Of The People”
Goodman’s Resident Dramaturg on how her work gives texture and specificity to a production....
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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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Global Shakespeare
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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