“Ugly Mugs”: ‘An Unacceptable Breach Of Sex Workers’ Privacy’
Peta Brady’s Ugly Mugs, which I saw in Sydney last week, opens with a gurney being wheeled onto...
Read MorePosted by Leslie Barnes | 19th Aug 2014 | Australia, Interview, Theatre and Politics
Peta Brady’s Ugly Mugs, which I saw in Sydney last week, opens with a gurney being wheeled onto...
Read MorePosted by Emily Lindsay Brown | 15th Aug 2014 | Essay, Scotland, Theatre and Politics
Alex Oates’ debut Fringe play traces the journey of 19-year-old Geordie lad Bruce, as he begins...
Read MorePosted by Andrew Blades | 4th Aug 2014 | Essay, London, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
My Night With Reg, Kevin Elyot’s 1994 play, has returned to the London stage, poignantly only a...
Read MorePosted by Mark Steven | 31st Jul 2014 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
“I’m a poet. That’s what makes me interesting.” So begins the autobiography of Vladimir...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 16th Jun 2014 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Bell Shakespeare’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V–which opened in Canberra on...
Read MorePosted by Dmitriy Romendik | 4th Jun 2014 | News, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Director and artist Dmitry Krymov’s production of Opus No.7, about the Holocaust and the...
Read MorePosted by Vladimir Kozlov | 2nd Jun 2014 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics
After a long period in which Russian theater productions avoided political themes, the last few...
Read MorePosted by Molly Flynn | 27th May 2014 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
Natalya Vorozhbit is Ukraine’s leading playwright and co-author of Maidan: Voices from the...
Read MorePosted by Rob Pensalfini | 20th May 2014 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics
Since 2006, I have led the Shakespeare Prison Project, an initiative by the Queensland Shakespeare...
Read MorePosted by Tina Nandha | 19th May 2014 | News, Playwriting, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
Before Maidan events faded from people’s memories, playwright Natal’ya Vorozhbit brought the...
Read MorePosted by Iryna Chuzhynova | 20th Apr 2014 | Review, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
During the several months of protests in Kyiv Maidan a group of young dramatists who call...
Read MorePosted by Christine Judith Nicholls | 10th Mar 2014 | Adaptation, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Netherlands, Review, Theatre and Politics, Transmedia
Over six hours, three Shakespearean tragedies – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony And...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 22nd Feb 2014 | Essay, Participatory Theatre, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
Between 11-18 February 2014, seven International Theatre of the Oppressed practitioners were...
Read MorePosted by Pawel Soszynski | 11th Dec 2013 | Collaborating Across Cultures, Interview, Poland, Theatre and Politics
Divine Kraków, Un-Divine Comedy: A talk with Croatian Director Oliver Frljić of Un-Divine Comedy...
Read MorePosted by Hannah Wolf | 9th Dec 2013 | Spain, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
This post was written by the director, dramaturg, and educator, Hannah Wolf, who is currently in...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 6th May 2013 | Essay, Management, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Mitt Romney’s offhanded crusade against Big Bird, announced in a presidential debate with...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 25th Apr 2013 | Review, Russia, Theatre and Politics
A play in which the privileged are out of touch and the poor are getting poorer is all too apt in...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 2nd Oct 2012 | Review, Theatre and Disability, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
During the ten years of its run, when asked what I thought of Mabou Mines’s Dollhouse, I’ve always...
Read MorePosted by Roman Dolzhansky | 13th Sep 2012 | News, Russia, Theatre and Politics
A production by the Moscow’s Teatr.doc has not just soared to popularity as a cultural event, but...
Read MorePosted by Dorota Kowalkowska | 11th Jul 2012 | Essay, Poland, Theatre and Politics
The last piece written by Demirski and directed by Strzępka brings a simple, and yet a very...
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