Failing to Understand Together: What Is Theatre Seeking In Current Affairs?
From the ‘crisis play’ to the ‘memorial play’ to the ‘Syria play,’ current affairs are doing well...
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Theatre and Politics
Made in Nigeria: When Lagos Stood in Applause for Dike Chukwumerije
A guitar-strumming Kuchi opened the floor with her somewhat hoarse yet unique voice. The strings...
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“Cut Piece for Pants Suit” in Madison Square Park
Once every four years most Americans sheepishly admit to trusted friends of similar political...
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Refuge and Refusal: Why Theatre About Asylum Seekers Matters
When, some eight or nine years ago, I began researching the responses of Australian and refugee...
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South Sudan Artists Protest Civil War With Street Performances And Other Art
Musicians played lively tunes in South Sudan’s capital, and pedestrians and market shoppers...
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James Graham On How His 2012 Political Hit “This House” Will Go Down in 2016
The danger of writing political plays is that reality, of course, has a habit of overtaking you....
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Political Adaptations: Raleigh Literary Society’s “Waiting for Godot” and “Hayadavana”
In his institutional history of literature in American colleges and universities, Gerald Graff...
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“Scarlet & Gold” Chronicles Labor Movement in New Zealand
Timely, relevant, engaging, entertaining and thought-provoking “You wonder if it’ll ever change,...
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Theater Review: Helluva Theatre Takes on Shaw’s “Major Barbara”
Helluva Theatre Company—newly formed under the mission to produce plays from the traditional canon...
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The Political Is Personal (Or Vice Versa)
During summer, the Flemish theatre lover catches up on what he missed during the season. And the...
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Holocaust Narratives Set in Motion by Bill T. Jones
Analogy/Dora: Tramontane, Oct. 20-21, 2016, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Sixty years after the...
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New Theatre in Ukraine: Rattle, Break, and Creation
New Theatre in Ukraine: Rattle, Break, and Creation Ukrainian theatre has been rattling since the...
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Korean-German Collaboration “Walls–Iphigenia in Exile” Premieres in Gwangju and Berlin
Walls–Iphigenia in Exile, the result of a four-year collaboration between South Korean and German...
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Argentinean Communitarian Theatre: A Different Form of Theatre Born of Crisis
The communitarian theatre movement in Argentina formed in 1983 as its worst dictatorship was...
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“The President” Written and Performed by Alexander Sparrow
Unnervingly astute political satire When The President opened in Hamilton then Palmerston North...
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Performance and Remembering in Cusco: “De pie sobre el espejo” (2005) by Grupo Impulso de Teatro
Cusco’s Grupo Impulso de Teatro remembers twenty years of political violence in Peru with ‘De pie sobre el espejo’ (2005).
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“The Producers” Revival at Paper Mill Playhouse
The Paper Mill Playhouse’s revival of Broadway hit The Producers received the 2016 Regional...
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Unrest and Discontent – Political Theatre as Agonistic Field
The more the time we are living through seems out of joint, the harder it has been for the...
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Theatre Review: “Poker Face” By Petr Kolečko–”Feels Like It’s Happening Right Here Right Now”
The play Poker Face by acclaimed Czech playwright Petr Kolečko–in Eva Daníčková’s translation and...
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Iraqi-Swedish Theatre Director Anmar Taha Explores Nightmares, Searches for Peace
Pillars of Blood is a performance focusing on memories of the Iraqi crisis as captured by Anmar...
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