Review: Love And War In “All’s Well That Ends Well”
Love is a battlefield. While Pat Benatar might have made this line her own in the 1980s,...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 31st Mar 2014 | Australia, Directing, Review
Love is a battlefield. While Pat Benatar might have made this line her own in the 1980s,...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 30th Oct 2013 | Directing, Kama Ginkas Black Monk, Review, Russia
Of all the theatrical languages that coexist in Moscow, director Kama Ginkas is an intonation unto himself. You can hear it in his actors’ speech. “They often speak not as they do in life or even on stage for another...
Read MorePosted by Wojtek Ziemilski | 22nd Jul 2012 | Devised Theatre, Directing, Interview, Poland
Talk with Wojtek Ziemilski Look around–nowadays even ads for shoes are often bolder than the...
Read MorePosted by Emmanuel Grynszpan | 31st May 2012 | Directing, Review, Russia
For the first time, Mikhail Baryshnikov acts in Russian for one of Russia’s most innovative...
Read MorePosted by Joanna Szupinska-Myers | 12th May 2012 | Directing, Essay, Poland
The following essay is the fifth in this six-part column for CR. Developed during Polish Movie...
Read MorePosted by Ewelina Godlewska-Byliniak | 7th Nov 2011 | Directing, Poland, Review
Does the end mean a promise of fulfillment? Or is it just its illusion, a delusive prospect of...
Read MorePosted by Dara Weinberg | 7th Nov 2011 | Directing, Musical Theatre, Poland, Review
“I want to create a new kind of chorus theatre,” says Marta Górnicka. If Tu Mówi Chór…...
Read MorePosted by Marta Bryś | 7th Nov 2011 | Directing, Poland, Review
In his latest premiere, Koprofagi, Jan Klata abandons all the strategies that secured him his...
Read MorePosted by Pawel Soszynski | 22nd Sep 2011 | Directing, Poland, Review
What Lupa staged in Wrocław was simply a bad play. Waiting Room.0 is an intentional formal and...
Read MorePosted by Pawel Soszynski | 7th Apr 2011 | Directing, News, Participatory Theatre, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Theatre and Film
In her debut film, Małgorzata Dziewulska takes on a challenging task: revising Grotowski’s...
Read MorePosted by Paul Bargetto | 22nd Feb 2011 | Directing, Interview, Playwriting, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad
I feel there’s a straight line from Mrożek to Dorota. She’d probably kill me if she heard me say...
Read MorePosted by Tomasz Cyz | 19th Jun 2010 | Directing, Interview, Poland
I’m also sometimes afraid of music in moments of depression. I feel that even very good music can...
Read MorePosted by Alicja Rosé | 18th Jun 2010 | Directing, Essay, Poland
Beckett would have been unhappy. Hamm’s feet sticking out from under the blanket, and in white...
Read MorePosted by Malgorzata Dziewulska | 7th Jun 2010 | Directing, Essay, Poland
Theatre works chiefly through temporal sequences and if Jerzy Grzegorzewski was in his artistic...
Read MorePosted by Joanna Wichowska | 31st May 2010 | Directing, Germany, Interview
“Someone decided to combine the luxury of culture with the luxury of remorse and invited me...
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