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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
Violence and Therapy: 29th International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk, Poland, 2025
The International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk is not the festival of masterpieces and it never...
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 in 22 Shows
This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe was as sprawling and invigorating as ever, and expectedly...
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“When Billy Met Alasdair” At The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Writer-actor Alan Bissett’s When Billy met Alasdair imagines what happened when Alasdair Gray...
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025: Provisional Futures in a World on Fire
For the last thirty years of my attendance, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has always been too big...
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German Summer Festival Theatre (2): Domfestspiele Verden, “Die Zündholzfrau”
In 1997, an association was founded in the German city of Verden on the river Aller, located...
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“No Apologies” by Emma Frankland, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Emma Frankland’s No Apologies achieves something genuinely rare: a radical reimagining that...
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“The Ego” by Anemone Valcke and Verona Verbakel, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Anemone Valcke and Verona Verbakel’s The Ego emerges from Ontroerend Goed’s theatrical...
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“Riot Days” by Pussy Riot, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
What is the purpose of performing arts when the stakes are literally life and death? Pussy...
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“Thanks for Being Here” by Ontroerend Goed, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
The Belgian Company Ontroerend Goed have been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for so long that I...
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German Summer Festival Theatre (1): Theatersommer Wismar, Brecht/Weill The Threepenny Opera
Over the summer months, all of the publicly funded state and municipal theatres, as well as...
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“Aether”, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Emma Howlett’s Aether arrives with impressive academic credentials—consultations with...
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“Little Bulb: Listen Dance”, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
What does it take to get you up on your feet and into the groove? Whatever your disposition,...
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“The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave”, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Oli Mathiesen’s dance piece The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave has been described by this...
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“A Poem And A Mistake,” Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
At the Edinburgh Fringe, the solo show, A Poem and a Mistake, is playing for the entire month of...
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“Works And Days” By The Fc Bergman Collective, Edinburgh International Festival
Works and Days the latest production of the FC Bergman collective, played at the Lyceum Theatre as...
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“Wild Thing!” By Mechanimal, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Out of the many venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Summerhall Arts is one that shines for...
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Sam Kissajukian’s “Three Hundred Paintings,” Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
Summerhall, one of Edinburgh’s busiest venues, known for its innovative, cutting-edge programme,...
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Mohamed El Khatib’s “La Vie Sècrete Des Vieux”: a Poetics of Attentive Listening
There are shows that may, on the surface, feel wafer thin, shows where nothing much seems to...
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“Make It Happen,” Edinburgh Festival Theatre 2025
The Edinburgh International Festival this year, welcomes several international trailblazers like...
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“Suburbia,” Written And Performed By Jonny Woo, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
As I read the title of Jonny Woo’s latest show, Suburbia, I wondered how this celebrated...
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“Cassandra,” Written And Performed By Ailsa Dixon, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Playing at the Scottish Storytelling Centre during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cassandra,...
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Karis Kelly’s “Consumed” At The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Here at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as Gary McNair’s A Gambler’s Guide to Dying, I caught the...
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“A Gambler’s Guide To Dying” Set In Glasgow’s Gorbals, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
For this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Traverse Theatre has, as usual, put together a...
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“Athens Of The North” at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The expression ‘Athens of the North’, the title of the play in the present review, conjures up an...
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“Buen Camino,” Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
‘Dare to Discover’ is the leitmotiv of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe running from 1st to 25th August....
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Tampere Theatre Festival 2025: Worlds in Miniature
In the opening page of the 2025 Tampere Theatre Festival brochure, the artistic team (Hilkka-Liisa...
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Barcelona’s 2025 Grec Festival: “The Performing Arts as a Critical and Poetic Tool”
The 2025 Grec festival, the first under the new directorship of Leticia Martín Ruiz, opened on 26...
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“Trilogia Cadela Força – Capítulo II: The Brotherhood.” Review. Holland Festival 2025.
My colleague Jonathan and I were walking towards Leidseplein and the Internationaal Theater...
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“From Dust.” Another Review. Holland Festival 2025.
Stepping into From Dust feels less like attending a performance and more like consciously entering...
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“From Dust.” Review. Holland Festival 2025.
Arrival and Anticipation On Thursday, June 19, I participated in Michel van der Aa’s From Dust....
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