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Broken Britain has a big problem with youth. About a million of those aged 16 to 24 are NEETs (not...
by Mert Dilek | Aug 28, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, United Kingdom | 0
by Kasia Lech | Sep 7, 2024 | Czech Republic, Essay, New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Theatre for Young Audiences, United Kingdom | 0
Theatre for broadly understood young audiences (0-16 years) is one of the most important cultural...
by Duška Radosavljević | Jul 2, 2025 | Adaptation, Denmark, Review | 0
Imagine Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, staged as a sort of salon game, in a real couple’s home serving as...
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My colleague Jonathan and I were walking towards Leidseplein and the Internationaal Theater...
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by Javad Mohajeri | Aug 6, 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review, Theatre and AI | 0
by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | Oct 10, 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review | 0
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by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Aug 31, 2025 | Austria, Dramaturgy, Interview, Macedonia | 0
An Interview with Ana Ristoska Trpenoska, a playwright, dramaturg, Vienna/Skopje, Austria/R.N....
by Lisa Monde | Oct 8, 2024 | Austria, Interview, Musical Theatre | 0
by Bryce Lease | Sep 20, 2023 | Review, Sweden | 0
In the Lilla scenen of Uppsala Stadsteater (City Theatre), a haunting echo of the past emerged,...
by Duška Radosavljević | Jun 26, 2023 | Review, Sweden | 0
by Toni Hildebrandt and Zainabu Jallo | Jan 22, 2023 | Adaptation, Review, Switzerland, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Science | 0
Sonne, los jetzt!, Elfriede Jelinek’s new theater piece, is imperative with an unknown addressee....
by Florida Kastrati | May 6, 2022 | Devised Theatre, Kosovo, Review, Switzerland, Theatre and Politics | 0
by Margaret Rose | Jul 20, 2025 | Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Italy, Review | 0
Director and writer Romeo Castellucci decided not to use one of the usual venues of the Theatre...
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by Maria Delgado | Aug 6, 2025 | Festivals, Review, Spain | 0
The 2025 Grec festival, the first under the new directorship of Leticia Martín Ruiz, opened on 26...
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by Alma Prelec | Jun 25, 2025 | Review, Spain, Transcultural Collaborations | 0
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The International Shakespeare Festival in Gdańsk is not the festival of masterpieces and it never...
by Teodora Medeleanu | Aug 10, 2025 | Poland, Review, Theatre and Science | 0
by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Mar 26, 2025 | Festivals, Interview, Playwriting, Romania | 0
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by Ilinca Todoruţ | Oct 11, 2024 | Review, Romania | 0
by Vassili Schedrin | May 2, 2025 | Dramaturgy, Review, Russia, United States of America | 0
Soviet nonconformist art was emerged in the 1950s when artists dared to transcend the official...
by Kasia Lech | Sep 7, 2024 | Czech Republic, Essay, New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Theatre for Young Audiences, United Kingdom | 0
Theatre for broadly understood young audiences (0-16 years) is one of the most important cultural...
by Verity Healey | Dec 3, 2024 | Kosovo, Kosovo Albania Theatre Showcase 2024, Review, Theatre and Politics | 0
Six Against Turkey, at The Kosovo Albania Showcase, is a new satire from playwright Jeton Neziraj...
by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | Apr 2, 2025 | Croatia, Interview, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation | 1
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by Emilija Kvočka | Jun 13, 2025 | Festivals, Review, Serbia | 0
In honour of playwright Jovan Sterija Popović, Sterijino pozorje was held this year for the...
by Kasia Lech | Sep 7, 2024 | Czech Republic, Essay, New Theatre for Children Festival, Wrocław 2024, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Theatre for Young Audiences, United Kingdom | 0
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by Emiliia Dementsova | Oct 25, 2023 | Directing, Festivals, Hungary, Review, Theatre Olympics 2023 | 0
One of the most popular dishes in French cuisine is tartare. Diced beef with egg yolk and lots of...
by Emiliia Dementsova | Oct 18, 2023 | Georgia, Review, Theatre Olympics 2023 | 0
The 10th MITEM Theatre Festival continues to showcase the theatre achievements of Hungarian...
by Tom Mustroph | Mar 6, 2022 | Interview, Moldova, Theatre and Politics | 0
Moldovan playwright and director Nicoleta Esinencu is known for her provocative monologue FUCK...
by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | Oct 10, 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review
The small district of Schnoor in the northern German city of Bremen, consisting of some 100...
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Perhaps it’s an indicator of the feebleness of new writing after the pandemic that so many of the...
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This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe was as sprawling and invigorating as ever, and expectedly...
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Writer-actor Alan Bissett’s When Billy met Alasdair imagines what happened when Alasdair Gray...
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Read Moreby Duška Radosavljević | Aug 25, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
Emma Frankland’s No Apologies achieves something genuinely rare: a radical reimagining that...
Read Moreby Duška Radosavljević | Aug 25, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
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Read Moreby Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe | Aug 24, 2025 | Festivals, Germany, Review
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Read Moreby Duška Radosavljević | Aug 24, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
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Works and Days the latest production of the FC Bergman collective, played at the Lyceum Theatre as...
Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Aug 19, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom
Out of the many venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Summerhall Arts is one that shines for...
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Read Moreby Maria Delgado | Aug 18, 2025 | Finland, France, Review, Tampere Theatre Festival 2025
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Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Aug 18, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, Scotland, United Kingdom
The Edinburgh International Festival this year, welcomes several international trailblazers like...
Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Aug 18, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
As I read the title of Jonny Woo’s latest show, Suburbia, I wondered how this celebrated...
Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Aug 14, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, Scotland, Theatre and Gender
Playing at the Scottish Storytelling Centre during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cassandra,...
Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Aug 14, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, United Kingdom
Here at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as Gary McNair’s A Gambler’s Guide to Dying, I caught the...
Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Aug 14, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, Scotland
For this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Traverse Theatre has, as usual, put together a...
Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Aug 13, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, Scotland
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Read Moreby Margaret Rose | Aug 13, 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, Scotland, United States of America
‘Dare to Discover’ is the leitmotiv of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe running from 1st to 25th August....
Read Moreby Maria Delgado | Aug 11, 2025 | Festivals, Finland, Review, Tampere Theatre Festival 2025
In the opening page of the 2025 Tampere Theatre Festival brochure, the artistic team (Hilkka-Liisa...
Read Moreby Teodora Medeleanu | Aug 10, 2025 | Poland, Review, Theatre and Science
Sitting through 5 and a half hours of performance might seem like an exercise of will and...
Read Moreby Maria Delgado | Aug 6, 2025 | Festivals, Review, Spain
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Read Moreby Jenny Strataki | Aug 6, 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review
My colleague Jonathan and I were walking towards Leidseplein and the Internationaal Theater...
Read Moreby Róisín Daly | Aug 6, 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review, Theatre and AI
Stepping into From Dust feels less like attending a performance and more like consciously entering...
Read Moreby Javad Mohajeri | Aug 6, 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review, Theatre and AI
Arrival and Anticipation On Thursday, June 19, I participated in Michel van der Aa’s From Dust....
Read Moreby Unnur Hlíf Rúnarsdóttir | Aug 6, 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review
For Part I of this review, go here. Yet again, I find myself at the edge of Amsterdam, at the...
Read Moreby Unnur Hlíf Rúnarsdóttir | Aug 6, 2025 | Holland Festival 2025, Netherlands, Review
It is the third day of the Holland Festival, and I make my way to what feels like the edge of...
Read Moreby Emiliia Dementsova | Aug 5, 2025 | Adaptation, Azerbaijan, Review, Theatre and Politics
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Read Moreby Maria Delgado | Aug 5, 2025 | Festivals, Review, Spain
The first new production of Mark Rosenblatt’s Olivier-award-winning Giant since its London...
Read Moreby Aleks Sierz | Aug 2, 2025 | London, Review, United Kingdom
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To read PART I of this report, go to this link. Two “in yr face” Tragedies: Double...
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