Romeo Castellucci’s “The Potato Eaters” at the Venice Theatre Biennale
Director and writer Romeo Castellucci decided not to use one of the usual venues of the Theatre...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 20th Jul 2025 | Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Italy, Review
Director and writer Romeo Castellucci decided not to use one of the usual venues of the Theatre...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Jul 2025 | Festivals, Italy, Review, Transmedia, United States of America
Celebrated American actor Willem Dafoe, the new artistic director of the Venice Theatre Biennale,...
Read MorePosted by Ariadne Mikou | 31st May 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Dance
Under the artistic direction of the étoile Eleonora Abbagnato, Rome Opera House (Teatro dell’Opera...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 8th May 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
Playwright, actor, director and novelist Davide Enia had his first success as a theatrical...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Apr 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Disability
At Milan’s Franco Parenti theatre, Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink (Schegge di...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 10th Mar 2025 | Directing, Italy, Review
In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 5th Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Science
Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 2nd Mar 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Politics
In his short story, A Report to an Academy, written and published in 1917, Franz Kafka imagines...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 4th Feb 2025 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Gender
Some of the outstanding works by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood are finally being staged in...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 24th Jan 2025 | Immersive Theatre, Italy, Review
Director Romeo Castellucci is coming to the end of a four-year collaboration with Milan’s...
Read MorePosted by Ilinca Todoruţ | 12th Dec 2024 | Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kyoto Experiment 2024, Review
Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo and Italian choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 20th Oct 2024 | Festivals, Italy, Review
The city of Milan hosts two annual Fringe events, the first in June, and the second, in late...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 31st Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Italy, Review, United Kingdom
New plays can derive from many sources: a vivid imagination, novels, diaries, real-life episodes,...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 16th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Italy, Review, United Kingdom
The five-hundred-year history of Italy’s Commedia dell’Arte is neatly packed into Masquerade, a...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 28th Jul 2024 | Festivals, Italy, Review, Transmedia
This year’s Theatre Biennale (15 to 30 June), entitled, Niger and Albus (Black and White), sees...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 18th Jul 2024 | Dramaturgy, Festivals, Italy, Review
After Brexit, UK productions very rarely play in Italy, but Biennale theatre directors Gianni...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 14th May 2024 | Festivals, Italy, Theatre and Art
Together with Wayne McGregor’s dance piece, UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, Romeo Castellucci’s...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 7th Apr 2024 | Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Italy
Milan’s international multidisciplinary performance art festival FOG, featuring theatre, music,...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 1st Mar 2024 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Religion
Writer, actor, and director Ascanio Celestini is one of Italy’s most celebrated theatrical...
Read MorePosted by Ariadne Mikou | 14th Feb 2024 | Italy, Review, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Opera
For the corps de ballet of an Opera House, the place par excellence for the preservation of the...
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