Artistic Expression Under Threat As Conservative Tide Grows In Russia
Russia is witnessing a worrying increase in attacks on avant-garde art. A series of recent bans on...
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Theatre and Politics
Review: “The Merchant Of Venice,” Shakespeare’s Comedy Of Cruelty
The Merchant Of Venice (first published in 1600) boasts a problematic and sometimes controversial...
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Built for Collapse: “Red Wednesday”
The evening that I saw Red Wednesday by Built for Collapse at the LaGuardia Performing Arts...
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Culture Wars in the Russian Theater
As the government continues to censor and cancel Russian theater performances, a group of artists...
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The “Dancer’s Body” Is Fat: Force Majeure’s “Nothing To Lose”
The fear and loathing of fat is such a ubiquitous part of contemporary Western culture that it...
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Ridley Scott’s Casting Of White Actors Is Symptomatic Of Larger Problems
Director Ridley Scott recently set off a firestorm when he dismissed those who criticized him for...
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Staging Power: David Williamson’s Portrait Of Citizen Murdoch
The Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) production of David Williamson’s 2013 play Rupert has...
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“Dangerous Acts Starring The Unstable Elements Of Belarus”: Review By Jesse Kirkwood
“Belarus is not sexy. Sexy countries have oil, gas, diamonds, sea, mountains … Belarus has...
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Can Keene/Taylor’s New Play “Dreamers” Keep Us From Despair?
More than ten years after the last production by the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project (KTTP),...
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Big hART’s “Hipbone Sticking Out”: Truthful And Ambitious Theatre
Hipbone Sticking Out, the Big hART production now playing at the Melbourne Festival, begins in...
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Terrorism, Truth, and Trust – How Dramaturgy Informs Real Life
Drama and its core principles are to be found in theatres while the real world goes on outside,...
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“Black Diggers”: Out Of The Trenches At The Brisbane Festival
The performance space in which Wesley Enoch‘s play Black Diggers is being performed at the...
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Back to the U.S.S.R.
On occasion, rather than buried and hidden somewhere, essences lie right there on the surface,...
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“Naked, Obscene Theater, That’s What Our People Fear” – On Russian Theatre and Politics
Kirill Serebrennikov, the artistic director of Moscow’s innovative Gogol Center, and a...
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“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...
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New Fringe Play Offers Insights On Illegal “eBay For Drugs”
Alex Oates’ debut Fringe play traces the journey of 19-year-old Geordie lad Bruce, as he begins...
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Assessing The First Wave Of The AIDS Epidemic, A Generation On
My Night With Reg, Kevin Elyot’s 1994 play, has returned to the London stage, poignantly only a...
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Mayakovsky At Carriageworks: A Telegram From An Alien Future
“I’m a poet. That’s what makes me interesting.” So begins the autobiography of Vladimir...
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“Henry V” Meets The London Blitz And Brings The House Down
Bell Shakespeare’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V–which opened in Canberra on...
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“Opus No.7” By Krymov To Be Performed In London
Director and artist Dmitry Krymov’s production of Opus No.7, about the Holocaust and the...
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