“A Moment of Silence” The Canadian Premiere of an Iranian Play
A Moment of Silence written and directed by award-winning Iranian artist Mohammad Yaghoubi was...
Read MorePosted by Marjan Moosavi | 24th Aug 2016 | Iran, Review, Theatre and Politics
A Moment of Silence written and directed by award-winning Iranian artist Mohammad Yaghoubi was...
Read MorePosted by Alinah Kelo Segobye | 15th Aug 2016 | Musical Theatre, Review, South Africa, Theatre and Politics
I had the opportunity to watch a performance of Billy Elliot – The Musical in Bradford, UK...
Read MorePosted by Will Worley | 4th Aug 2016 | Musical Theatre, New York, News, Participatory Theatre, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
A “profound and numbing” play dedicated to the powerful psychedelic drug ketamine is due to open...
Read MorePosted by Marjan Moosavi | 28th Jul 2016 | Iran, Review, Theatre and Politics
The Whispers Behind the Battle Line is written by Alirezā Nāderi and directed by Mohammad Rezā...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 22nd Jul 2016 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Setting Shakespeare in modern Africa is risky business for a white first-world director. That...
Read MorePosted by Didi Cheeka | 13th Jul 2016 | Essay, Nigeria, Theatre and Politics
On July 28, 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia. The next day, across the Danube, Belgrade, came...
Read MorePosted by British Ukranian Society | 19th Jun 2016 | News, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
The Point of No Return, a Maidan-themed theatre production by the BeFrank Theatre Company, was...
Read MorePosted by Anna Malpas | 11th Jun 2016 | News, Russia, Theatre and Politics
A Moscow court on Wednesday released radical performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky but gave him a...
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 1st Jun 2016 | News, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
A member of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot who was jailed over an anti-Putin protest is to make...
Read MorePosted by Paul Kihara Kariuki | 9th May 2016 | Kenya, Review, Theatre and Politics
The playwright explores issues that plague Kenya today and he does that with a compassionate eye...
Read MorePosted by Huw Griffiths | 2nd May 2016 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced has arrived in Sydney from America on the back of international...
Read MorePosted by Ashley Barnwell | 28th Mar 2016 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Neil Armfield’s new stage adaptation of Kate Grenville’s 2005 novel The Secret River invites us to...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Ravengai | 30th Oct 2015 | Essay, South Africa, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics
The Western dramatic canon has been a source of irritation to some Afrocentrists, who see it as...
Read MorePosted by Giorgia Alu | 27th Oct 2015 | Australia, Essay, Theatre and Politics
The play Jurassica, currently being performed at St. Kilda Theatre in Melbourne, begins with “the...
Read MorePosted by Julian Meyrick | 26th Aug 2015 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Some plays are ruled by a single word. It burns through their action, dark as pitch. Watching them...
Read MorePosted by Caitlin Connell and Patrick Connelly | 18th Aug 2015 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Caitlin Connell and Patrick Connelly have spent the summer in Moscow looking at the current...
Read MorePosted by Catherine Grant and Matthew Harper | 12th Jul 2015 | Australia, Cambodia, Essay, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
What we really need in this capitalist, power-driven, exploitative, consumerist world, according...
Read MorePosted by Bernard Gallagher | 12th Jun 2015 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
In October 2012 ITV broadcast The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile, in which several women alleged that...
Read MorePosted by Marina Shimadina | 7th Jun 2015 | News, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Russia is witnessing a worrying increase in attacks on avant-garde art. A series of recent bans on...
Read MorePosted by Claire Hansen | 25th May 2015 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
The Merchant Of Venice (first published in 1600) boasts a problematic and sometimes controversial...
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