Battle Cries For Liberation
At a staging in Kerala in January, Sara Matchett’s Walk: South Africa proved to be a harrowing but...
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Theatre and Gender
Bearing Down On The Bechdel Test: Laurie Fyffee At The Ergo Arts Pink Festival!
In 2017, I came across the Ergo Arts Pink Festival with a mandate as follows: “Ergo Pink Fest is a...
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The Making and Breaking of a Tyrant: “Dhaad” New Play from India
At the ongoing Theatre Olympics, Gujarati play Dhaad brought to fore the making and breaking of a...
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Chinese Vagina Monologues And Beyond
On March 20 2018, VaChina, a London-based Chinese feminist network, staged its first full drama...
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What It’s Like To Be A Female Fight Director
“We will not glorify violence” Visit Ruth Cooper-Brown at the weekend and you might...
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“Love Me Now” at The Tristan Bates Theatre: Love in the Time of Tinder
Love may well be the strongest four-letter word, but what is the latest news from the front line...
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Women Flying High In Circus
On International Women’s Day 2018 and in the year of Circus250, Poppy Burton-Morgan blogs for UK...
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“In the Club”: Tackling Sexual Assault, Gender, and a Male Dominated Sports Culture
A new play by award-winning playwright Patricia Cornelius tackles the prevalence of sexual...
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Living And Breathing History, Through Noh
Noh performer Hisa Uzawa has spent her life devoted to an art form that—with its slow and steady...
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“The Second Woman”: A 24-Hour Lesson in the Gendered Performance of Intimacy
The idea that femininity is a social performance, while masculinity simply sets the coordinates...
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I Wanted To Remove The Language Of Gender: Hindi Adaptation of Lorca’s “Yerma”
Mahesh Dattani explores the symbolism, futurism and surreal influences of Spanish dramatist...
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“My Fair Lady” is Revived, Brilliantly Led by Lauren Ambrose
Where others this season have failed to mount lovable productions of classic Broadway theater, Bartlett Sher’s lush, elegant revival of My Fair Lady is triumphantly successful.
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Praises To “Athena”
Yesterday I knew nothing about the playwright Gracie Gardner or The Hearth, a feminist theater...
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“Girls And Boys” at The Royal Court
This is Carey Mulligan week. She appears, improbably enough, as a hard-nosed cop in David Hare’s...
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“Love In Hate Nation” Premieres At Penn State’s Playhouse
My Heart Felt That Sha La La The proscenium stage of the Playhouse has been converted into...
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Liberty, Equality, And Feminism: “Stateswomen, Sluts Of The Revolution, Or The Learned Ladies”
To probe the practices of both protest and theatre-making, Teatr Polski of Bydgoszcz looked to...
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Jaclyn Backhaus’ “Men On Boats” (Re)Imagines History With Women Front And Center
In a city that still has a relatively conservative theatre community such as Houston, seeing ten...
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Men, The Internet, and Politics: “The Believers Are But Brothers” at The Bush Theatre
Do boys never leave the playground? Just when I was reasonably sure that the crisis of masculinity...
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The Focus Is On The Power Of Those On The Margins: 33 Performances, Representing 14 Countries
The 10th edition of ITFoK touches upon diverse themes such as gender, identity, displacement, and...
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Movie Star-Crossed: Adrienne Kennedy’s “He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box”
The explosively feminine theater of Adrienne Kennedy breaks many of the fundamental “rules” of...
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