Festivals
LATEST REPORTS FROM THEATRE FESTIVALS
Edinburgh Fringe 2019: “Interbeing – Stories Of A Current War”, Cockpit Theatre: Putting A Forgotten War Back Into The Spotlight
“There are bombardments constantly on the outskirts of Donetsk, while in central Donetsk they...
PQ 2019: Noise Music
The Rudolfinum is the main classical music performance hall in Prague. The house of the Czech...
A Review of “Notes From Exile” from the 2018 Boska Komedia Festival: Reverberations of Antisemitism
Zapiski Z Wygnania [Notes from Exile] directed by Magda Umer. Presented at Narodowy Stary...
ALL LATEST FESTIVAL REPORTS
Follies and Murder Ballads and Extinction, Oh My!: New York City Fringe 2024
2024’s New York City Fringe has come to an end, eighteen nights of shows enjoyable, waspish,...
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Milan’s FOG Festival
Milan’s international multidisciplinary performance art festival FOG, featuring theatre, music,...
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Re-imagining the City through Performance: “The Drifting Room”, Created and Performed by Stephen Bain
The Drifting Room, created and performed by Stephen Bain. The Performance Arcade 2024,...
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A Beginner’s Guide To Santiago a Mil 2024: 10 Key Takeaways From One of Latin America’s Most Important Theatre Festivals
Santiago a Mil is an annual theatre and performing arts festival held in the Chilean capital in...
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Dealing with a Difficult Past: Guillermo Calderón’s “Villa” at Santiago a Mil
Catching up with Guillermo Calderón’s Villa at Santiago a Mil after almost 12 years has been a...
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Actor on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: “El Brote” (The Break) at Santiago a Mil
El Brote (The Break) is the tale of an actor who doesn’t feel he’s had the career breaks his...
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Performance and Politics: “Parlamento” (Parliament) Storms Santiago a Mil
Piel de Lava have been making work for 20 years and it shows. Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa,...
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Making a Film on Santiago’s Streets: “Efectos especiales” at Santiago a Mil
Think of a film set where the audience gathered on the streets are not fully aware that they are...
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Depression and discontents: Daniel Veronese’s staging of “La persona deprimida” (The Depressed Person) at Santiago a Mil
I read David Foster Wallace’s short story The Depressed Person soon after it was published in...
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From 1984 to 2024: Teatro Ictus’s “Primavera Con Una Esquina Rota” (Springtime In a Broken Mirror) at Santiago a Mil
Primavera con una esquina rota (Springtime in a broken mirror) has acquired a legendary status....
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“María Isabel” at Santiago a Mil: Staging Political Agency
How does one “write” a life for the stage? This question lies at the heart of Ana Luz...
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Fringe Theatre at Ukraine Fringe: from a Bomb Shelter to a Festival
Readers may or may not be aware that the first edition of the Ukraine Fringe festival, sub-titled...
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Desiré Festival 2023: Poetics of Andraš Urban, Circus of Marko Mandić, God of Jernej Lorenci
The international, regional festival of contemporary theatre Desiré, which takes place in Subotica...
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Les Saisons de la Création, First Edition of the Tunisian National Theater Festival Ficks Off
The curtain rises on the first edition of the Tunisian National Theater Festival. “Les...
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“Strength, Don’t Let Yourself Be Anyone’s” – BITEF, Belgrade, Serbia
The Belgrade International Theater Festival was founded in 1967 and to this day represents one of...
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Tartuffe or the Hypocrite: Tartare of Tartuffe
One of the most popular dishes in French cuisine is tartare. Diced beef with egg yolk and lots of...
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“The Overcoat:” A Balaganza of Absurdity and Travesty.
The 10th MITEM Theatre Festival continues to showcase the theatre achievements of Hungarian...
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“Leaning Church”: The Voices of a Vanished City
This is the story of the Big Bang. Not the explosion that gave birth to the universe. But an...
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“Fear Eats The Soul”: Love In The Grip of Hate
These two people are separated by history, geography, language, maths, and other school subjects...
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“The Book of Ruth”: Kaddish For Peaceful Life
The 10th edition of the Madách International Theatre Meeting in Budapest coincided with the Jewish...
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“Gulliver’s Travels”: a Lesson in Satire for Children.
“The life of man to represent, And turn it all to ridicule, Wit did a puppet-show...
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Edinburgh Festivals, May Luck Be With You
Edinburgh in August is a kind of Mecca for theatergoers around the world. It is due to its...
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Nice to MITEM you: the 10th edition of the Madách International Theatre Meeting Opens in the Hungarian Capital
Budapest is becoming a vibrant place and proving highly attractive to theatre lovers. All the...
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How Urdu Theater Is Reaching Out to New Audiences
The Hoshruba Repertory Theatre Festival, which begins on September 12 at Prithvi Theatre in...
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68th Sterijino pozorje: A critical dialogue
The 68th Sterijino pozorje took place earlier this summer in Novi Sad. Critics Borisav Matić and...
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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” at Shakespeare Festival in Serbia
The tenth in a row international theatre festival “Shakespeare Festival”, whose...
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Edinburgh Fringe 2023: Overview
There is a show at this year’s Fringe called Distant Memories of the Near Future written and...
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Edinburgh Fringe 2023: “Lucy and Friends,” Pleasance Courtyard
Lucy McCormick used to do music gigs and re-enactments, but she has now put her past and her...
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Edinburgh Fringe 2023: #Danish Ed Fringe
There is a little red brochure going around the Edinburgh Fringe titled #Danish. It represents the...
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Big In Belgium At The Edinburgh Fringe 2023
It was exactly ten years ago that Big in Belgium – a season of work from Flanders – was first...
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