When Real Life Out-Performs The Theatre: “1984” At The Reykjavik City Theatre
“If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.”...
Read MorePosted by Sigríður Jónsdóttir | 29th Sep 2017 | Adaptation, Iceland, Theatre and Politics
“If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.”...
Read MorePosted by Alvina Ruprecht | 26th Sep 2017 | Adaptation, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Yerma in London, as the subtitle states, is a contemporary adaptation of Federico García...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Sep 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Anyone who likes playing “Spot the weirdo” will find themselves instantly at home in Howard...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 31st Aug 2017 | Adaptation, Participatory Theatre, South Korea, Theatre and Politics
It has only been one hundred days into President Moon Jae-In’s administration, but the new...
Read MorePosted by Borimir Totev | 27th Aug 2017 | Adaptation, Directing, Interview, United Kingdom
This powerful new stage adaptation of Georgi Vladimov’s cult novel that marks the centenary of the...
Read MorePosted by Lorena Meeser | 26th Aug 2017 | Adaptation, Mexico
Icaro Compañía Teatral in Mexico presents Julius Caesar the adaptation of the work of William...
Read MorePosted by Olena Mygashko | 2nd Aug 2017 | Adaptation, Ukraine
On the stage covered with flour appears officer Bonet (Dmytro Surzhykov). Heavy and uneven white...
Read MorePosted by Emma Cole | 25th Jul 2017 | Adaptation, London, News, Translation, United Kingdom
In 2013-14, an innovative, cross-disciplinary research project explored the interactions of...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 23rd Jul 2017 | Adaptation, Festivals, Japan
Antigone by Sophocles, directed by Satoshi Miyagi; music by Hiroko Tanakawa; scenography by...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 19th Jul 2017 | Adaptation, Festivals, Japan
The government’s Cool Japan initiative may be focused on spreading anime around the world, but...
Read MorePosted by Whit Emerson | 10th Jul 2017 | Adaptation, China, Hong Kong, Review, Theatre and Opera, Transcultural Collaborations
Princess Jia’s request for poetry upon her visit to the Red Chamber is met by the impetuous Bao...
Read MorePosted by Namrata Chaturvedi | 8th Jul 2017 | Adaptation, India
Recently, Delhi hosted the dramatic production Ram ki Shakti Puja, by the Banaras-based theatre...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Nderitu | 6th Jul 2017 | Adaptation, Kenya, Theatre and Gender
‘I am wife Number One…I am gold. And then silver, bronze, even charcoal came along!’ This lament...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Drummond | 1st Jul 2017 | Adaptation, London, Playwriting, Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad, Translation, United Kingdom
Xameleon Theatre treats London audiences to a new insight into the life and works of Chekhov in...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 27th Jun 2017 | Adaptation, India, Theatre and Gender
Ulka Mayur’s Cast Off All Shame re-imagines four female bhakti poets in a modern-day avatar to...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 25th Jun 2017 | Adaptation, Belarus, Theatre and Politics
These people had already seen what for everyone else is still unknown. I felt like I was recording...
Read MorePosted by Maria Pia Pagani | 15th Jun 2017 | Adaptation, Italy
Twenty years ago, on 13 December 1996, Euripides’ Medea debuted in Bergamo (Teatro Donizetti): for...
Read MorePosted by S. Ravi | 12th Jun 2017 | Adaptation, India, Theatre and Politics
Ajit Chitturi’s The Spartan Conspiracy brings to fore how the desire to control resources dictates...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Deutsch | 11th Jun 2017 | Adaptation, France, Transcultural Collaborations, United Kingdom
“An enemy is someone whose story you have not yet heard,” advised my dear friend Rabbi Arthur...
Read MorePosted by Kim Soyeon | 8th Jun 2017 | Acting, Adaptation, Interview, South Korea, Translation
The Orphan of Zhao: Seeds of Revenge was staged again recently. The premiere production was an...
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