Can Dündar’s “#WeAreArrested” at the Arcola Theatre: Committed Political Theatre
Truth is the first casualty of war, and often it is journalists who have to pay the price. Killing...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 24th Nov 2019 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Turkey, United Kingdom
Truth is the first casualty of war, and often it is journalists who have to pay the price. Killing...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 12th Nov 2019 | Documentary Theatre, India, Review, Theatre and Politics
Piyush Mishra’s Gagan Damama Bajyo centers around the young freedom fighter’s ideology of...
Read MorePosted by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi | 1st Nov 2019 | Documentary Theatre, Essay, Theatre and Politics, Theatre and Religion, Translation, United Kingdom
In 2019, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi was asked to translate Trojan Horse, a play by Lung Theatre based...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Oct 2019 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
True stories, even in a fictional form, have the power to grip you by the throat, furiously shake...
Read MorePosted by Alex Trustrum Thomas | 11th Sep 2019 | Documentary Theatre, Interview, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Politics
Whatever preconceptions you have about documentary theatre, set them aside when you step inside...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The Russian state murders dissidents not only in their homeland, but also in the UK. Recent cases...
Read MorePosted by Henrik Eger | 4th Aug 2019 | Czech Republic, Documentary Theatre, Dramaturgy, Interview, News, Russia
Cooper Robb, an immensely knowledgeable and prolific American theater critic, who recently passed...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 26th Jun 2019 | Adaptation, Documentary Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
Three generations, three centuries, three acts: The Lehman Trilogy is a theatrical feast that...
Read MorePosted by Clarisse Zarvos | 12th May 2019 | Brazil, Documentary Theatre, Portugal, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Gender
In the early twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published the essay Room of One’s Own, based...
Read MorePosted by Kathleen Gallagher | 3rd May 2019 | Canada, Documentary Theatre, News, Theatre and Age
Today’s young people deserve to be heard. But, because of all of our technological distractions...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 12th Apr 2019 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Spain
Presented as a double bill alongside Jauría (English title Pack) at Madrid’s El Pavón Teatro...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 1st Mar 2019 | Adaptation, Documentary Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
What is a juggalo? Let me think for a second…Oh! He gets butt-naked and then he walks through the...
Read MorePosted by Peter Eckersall | 13th Feb 2019 | Directing, Documentary Theatre, Interview, Lebanon
Peter Eckersall: How did you come into theatre and how did you start working around this idea of...
Read MorePosted by Teo Xiao Ting | 5th Feb 2019 | Documentary Theatre, Immersive Theatre, Review, Singapore
Taking a right turn towards Camp Kilo Charcoal Lounge (formerly Sam Tat Building) at Kampong...
Read MorePosted by Eleonore von Bothmer | 24th Jan 2019 | Documentary Theatre, Interview, Switzerland, Theatre and Politics
One of the few court hearings to address the crimes committed in Eastern Congo was actually an art...
Read MorePosted by Jenn Stephenson | 8th Jan 2019 | Canada, Documentary Theatre, Essay
With the onslaught of “alternative facts” or “fake news,” it can feel as though the ground has...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Jun 2018 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Masculinity, whether toxic or in crisis (but never ever problem-free), is a hardy perennial...
Read MorePosted by Marjan Moosavi | 9th Jun 2018 | Canada, Documentary Theatre, Iran, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender
Acclimatization refers to the process by which an individual organism adjusts to a change in its...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Apr 2018 | Documentary Theatre, London, Participatory Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
It’s been a golden week for James Graham, British theatre’s wonder boy. After winning an Olivier...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Apr 2018 | Acting, Documentary Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
There are few things more British than talking about the weather. What makes this play about a...
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