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Interview with Handan Salta – co-founder of the Istanbul Theatre Showcase – TheatreIST, theatre...
Read MorePosted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 4th Mar 2025 | Interview, Theatre and Politics, Turkey
Interview with Handan Salta – co-founder of the Istanbul Theatre Showcase – TheatreIST, theatre...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 2nd Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
In his short story, A Report to an Academy, written and published in 1917, Franz Kafka imagines...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 13th Feb 2025 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics
Any frequent theater-goer is likely familiar with the “two block rule”, a piece of etiquette that...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 13th Feb 2025 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
With the United States now governed by swaggering, ignorant bigots spewing xenophobic venom,...
Read MorePosted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 12th Feb 2025 | Greece, Interview, Theatre and Politics
An Interview with Bouboulina Nikaki, Thessaloniki-Athens, Greece – International theatre...
Read MorePosted by Ina Doublekova | 26th Jan 2025 | Interview, Producing, Theatre and Politics
For 15 years now, Heidi Wiley has been Executive Director of the largest and most influential...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 31st Dec 2024 | Essay, Iraq, Theatre and Politics
Theatre in Iraq has some deep roots in ancient Mesopotamia, but its formal development was delayed...
Read MorePosted by Heather Waters | 10th Dec 2024 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics
We Live in Cairo, written by The Lazours, is a historical musical set in Egypt during the Arab...
Read MorePosted by Verity Healey | 3rd Dec 2024 | Kosovo, Kosovo Albania Theatre Showcase 2024, Review, Theatre and Politics
Six Against Turkey, at The Kosovo Albania Showcase, is a new satire from playwright Jeton Neziraj...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 9th Nov 2024 | Interview, Iraq, Theatre and Politics
Dr. Samir Talib is an Iraqi scholar specializing in Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. He earned...
Read MorePosted by Deniz Bașar | 31st Oct 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, Turkey
It is the 24th of September 2024 in İstanbul, and I’m finding my way through the curvy streets of...
Read MorePosted by Barbara Gabriel | 19th Oct 2024 | Canada, China, Review, Theatre and Politics
“My head feels like a bridge that all of Beijing has been walking over.” The stage is...
Read MorePosted by Ilinca Todoruţ | 13th Oct 2024 | Review, Romania, Theatre and Politics
The entire stage is the same shade of pale, dusty pink: the extra-long couch and side tables, the...
Read MorePosted by Ilinca Todoruţ | 9th Oct 2024 | Interview, Romania, Theatre and Politics
How is the German State Theatre different from other Romanian public theatres? Last year, when...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Oct 2024 | Books, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Roald Dahl evokes mixed feelings. He’s one of the greatest children’s storytellers, whose macabre...
Read MorePosted by Ali Mansouri | 25th Sep 2024 | Essay, Iran, Theatre and Politics
For many Iranians, the contemporary history of the country is divided into before and after...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 12th Sep 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Although the idea of deporting people to Rwanda as a punishment is now, following the defeat of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Sep 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Adultery is the great staple of modern British playwriting. The anguish of marriage, and the...
Read MorePosted by Xunnan Li | 30th Aug 2024 | China, Review, Theatre and Politics
In 2024, National Theatre of China in Beijing showcased an experimental avant-garde theatre work “Apple Tree” to talk about the tension in the contemporary marriage between a young Chinese couple. Their tension in the marriage was reflected when the wife is suffering from the unexpected miscarriage.The play is such a transnational one. The director Feng was educated in France when he was young, with established exposure to the French film and theatre. In this play and his previous productions, there are huge amount of Roland’s style of using montage and space changing.
Read MorePosted by Haytham Hmeidan | 26th Aug 2024 | Essay, Germany, Theatre and Politics
Artistic practice, which allows for the creation and re-creation of social spaces as testing...
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