“Low German” Theatre in Bremerhaven: “The Physicists” by Dürrenmatt
In terms of linguistics, Low German (Plattdeutsch) is a language of its own, not a dialect, and...
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Translation
Beautiful Detours: An Interview with Taiwanese Playwright Cheng-Chun Lee
Cheng-Chun Lee was an underperforming student in his high school composition classes. It was...
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“Translators As The Most Attentive And Analytical Readers: Knowing Every Corner, Strength, And Weakness Of A Text”
An interview with Mrs. Gabriela Abrasowicz (Slavist, translator, and theatre scholar, Poland)....
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Poetry: The Realm Where Unrealized Ambitions Find Aesthetic Sublimation
An Interview with Mr. Muanis Sinanovic (Slovenia), poet, writer, essayist, and critic. Muanis...
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I Am Not Afraid For The Future Of The Theatre
An Interview with Ms. Zeljka Turcinovic – dramaturg, editor of magazines: Croatian Theatre and...
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Bridging Worlds: Bahram Beyzaie’s “Naqqali Trilogy” Wins The 2024 ASTR Translation Award Prize
In November, the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) awarded the 2024 Translation Prize...
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A Theatre of Elsewhere
For some of us, the critical process, our practice – that is, what we do – is a continuous and...
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Meeting The Public Is The Most Important Incentive For Those Who Do Theatre: An Interview With Walter Prete
Walter Prete is a playwright, author, actor, educator, dramaturg, and director. Born in 1991 in...
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“Kiss” at the Wilma Theater
Directed by Fadi Skeiker with Wilma Hothouse Company favorites, the show’s physical and visual...
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Bjørg Vik’s “The Journey To Venice” At the Finborough Theatre: Norwegian Memory Play Is Tender If Slight
Bjørg Vik’s The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre: Norwegian memory play is tender if slight
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When Nobel Met Booker: Dario Fo, Barry Unsworth, and One Shambolic Italian Summer
The summer of 1985 is oppressive around the medieval Italian town of Gubbio. Thick heat is held...
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Women and War: a Staged Reading of Two New Plays From Ukrainian Playwrights
Earlier this year in the Polish theatre journal Didaskalia (169/170, 2022), a pair of Ukrainian...
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Five Myths About Shakespeare’s Contribution to the English Language
Shakespeare’s language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status...
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Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 2
To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. Nahm: Let’s talk now about Texas Aunt. I said...
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Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 1
Yun Mi Hyun is a playwright based in South Korea. After writing fiction and poetry in her early...
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Learning From Scratch: Istanbul Theatre Through a Canadian-Armenian Lens. Interview with Art Babayants.
Dr. Art Babayants is a multilingual artist-scholar who lives and works in what is now called...
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A New Translation of Molière’s “Dom Juan” for the 21st Century
A Preview of a new translation of Molière’s Dom Juan for the 21st century by Gideon Lester and...
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ProEnglish Theatre in Kyiv: It’s Important that Art Doesn’t Stop during War
On the first day of the Russian invasion, the ProEnglish Theatre in Kyiv, the only...
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“The Chairs” at The Almeida Theatre
Eugene Ionesco’s 1952 play The Chairs belongs to the moment of post-second world war European...
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A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…): Interview with Pablo Manzi and William Gregory
A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…) marks Chilean playwright Pablo Manzi’s English-language...
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