Avignon 2019: “Outside” – Between Testimony and Political Provocation
Provocation – artistic, political, personal – is the signature style of the Russian theatre...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 8th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Provocation – artistic, political, personal – is the signature style of the Russian theatre...
Read MorePosted by Rathsaran Sireekan | 2nd Aug 2019 | Adaptation, Belgium, Essay, Review, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Politics
Engaging choreography in a green discourse Anyone associating ‘De Keersmaeker’ and P.A.R.T.S....
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 29th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Politics
Moving along with the themes of history, memory and forgetting – the focus of Paul Ricœur’s famous...
Read MorePosted by Christine Deitner | 23rd Jul 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
The world premiere of a new play in North Hollywood opens old wounds for one man on his 50th...
Read MorePosted by Gowri S | 23rd Jul 2019 | India, Review, Theatre and Politics
The Auroville Theatre Group’s latest production adapts a searing drama of social injustice written...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jul 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
In the middle of the current decade, there was a mild vogue for reviving a handful of the great...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 20th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Politics
Following the themes of the Avignon 2019, Alexandra Badea’s Points de non-retour [Quais de...
Read MorePosted by Marjan Moosavi | 19th Jul 2019 | Adaptation, Iran, Review, Theatre and Politics
Ruhollah J’afari’s Richard III Will Not Take Place is an excavation of real historical events. A...
Read MorePosted by Henrik Eger | 14th Jul 2019 | Afghanistan, Interview, Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
The playwright “I spring from ministers, murderers, rebels, addicts, closeted queens, soldiers,...
Read MorePosted by Janice Weizman | 11th Jul 2019 | Dramaturgy, Interview, Israel, Theatre and Politics, Translation
Although Hanoch Levin (1943–1999) is arguably Israel’s most important playwright, his work is...
Read MorePosted by Henrik Eger | 30th Jun 2019 | Interview, Israel, Palestine, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
Ibrahim Miari, son of a Palestinian Muslim father and Jewish Israeli mother, grew up in Israel,...
Read MorePosted by Aneta Głowacka | 29th Jun 2019 | Poland, Review, Theatre and Politics
Standing on the edge of a meadow and a forest, the spreading lime tree in the opening scene of the...
Read MorePosted by Geetha Venkataramanan | 27th Jun 2019 | India, Review, Theatre and Politics
What happens when an egoistic father of a middle-class family is brought down to earth? While the...
Read MorePosted by Isaiah Lopaz | 25th Jun 2019 | Belgium, Review, Theatre and Politics
“You have to sit on the side of the stage. You’ll see that when you enter you have the option of...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 20th Jun 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Many a dramatist has imagined what happens to Nora after she slams the door at the end of Ibsen’s...
Read MorePosted by Patrick Langston | 17th Jun 2019 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Politics
When U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence lauded Donald Trump’s pro-life stance during his recent visit...
Read MorePosted by Jozefina Komporaly | 16th Jun 2019 | Festivals, Romania, Theatre and Politics
Arguably, it is not common practice to name a theatre after a living playwright, and neither is to...
Read MorePosted by Ryan Pepper | 15th Jun 2019 | Canada, Festivals, Ottawa Fringe 2019, Review, Theatre and Politics
Solo shows are Fringe’s bread and butter and offer an excellent vehicle to explore in-depth a...
Read MorePosted by Marta Bryś | 15th Jun 2019 | Poland, Review, Theatre and Politics
The Polish narrative of 1968 tends to end with the conclusion that Jews lived in Poland after...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Jun 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Last night, I went, for the first time, to the Barons Court Theatre, which is staging a compact...
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