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“The House of the Spirits” at The Cervantes Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Nov 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America

South America’s trauma in the second half of the twentieth century can be summed up by one phrase:...

“Shukshin’s Stories” by The Theatre of Nations at The Barbican

Posted by Jagger Biggs | 18th Nov 2019 | London, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad, United Kingdom

This month, Moscow’s Theatre of Nations graced the Barbican’s stage with Shukshin’s Stories, an...

Love in 3D: Multiple Guises for L’Amour at the Royal Opera House

Posted by Yulia Savikovskaya | 14th Nov 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom

Love seems to have preoccupied the planning team of the 2019/2020 season: it rushes on stage in so...

David Baddiel’s “God’s Dice” at the Soho Theatre: Mid-Life Crisis as Science Confronts Religion

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Nov 2019 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Religion, Theatre and Science, United Kingdom

One of the great cultural divides is that between religion and science. Of course, as novels such...

“On Bear Ridge” at the Royal Court: History of Loss in Ed Thomas’s Absurdist Play.

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Nov 2019 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Memory involves places, people, things and words–especially words. This abstract proposition...

“Botticelli in the Fire” at the Hampstead: A Queer 15th Century Tale.

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Nov 2019 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Botticelli is a household name, but who knows the true story behind his most famous painting? The...

Samuel Bailey’s “Shook” at Southwark Playhouse

Posted by Mert Dilek | 8th Nov 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

The winner of the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize, Shook by Samuel Bailey offers a glimpse into...

Slanguages, Hip-Hop, a Russian Play, Punjabi Poetry and Oxford University

Posted by Raveeta Banger | 5th Nov 2019 | Applied Theatre, News, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations, United Kingdom

Oxford University hosted ‘Poetry in Motion’ lin June at Wolfson College to academics, students,...

Cultural Participation Policies: A Poverty of Ambitions

Posted by David Stevenson | 4th Nov 2019 | Essay, Management, United Kingdom

This series of articles was commissioned in preparation for the IETM Plenary Meeting in Rijeka,...

A Quietly Bold Statement from a New Artist with a Lot to Tell: Oona Doherty’s “Hard to be Soft” at Dance Umbrella Festival at Southbank Centre, London

Posted by Miranda Laurence | 3rd Nov 2019 | Dance Umbrella 2019, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom

My senses are all awakened. It begins in the darkness. A curl of smoke rises from a dimly lit bowl...

Translating Trojan Horses

Posted by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi | 1st Nov 2019 | Documentary Theatre, Essay, Theatre and Politics, Theatre and Religion, Translation, United Kingdom

In 2019, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi was asked to translate Trojan Horse, a play by Lung Theatre based...

Annie Baker’s “The Antipodes” at the National Theatre

Posted by Mert Dilek | 31st Oct 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America

“Wily, slippery thing.” “Spiky little animal.” “One long nightmare.” These are the phrases that...

Sarah Rutherford’s “The Girl Who Fell” at the Trafalgar Studios: Death, Mourning, Co-Incidence and Healing

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 31st Oct 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Feeling guilty can be a drug. A powerful drug. Okay, it makes you feel bad, but at the same time,...

Ravers Under the Microscope: Dance Umbrella Festival Opens with Gisèle Vienne’s “Crowd” at Sadler’s Wells

Posted by Lisa Marie Bowler | 28th Oct 2019 | Dance Umbrella 2019, London, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom

The opening of the annual Dance Umbrella Festival of international contemporary dance in London...

Richard Gadd’s “Baby Reindeer” at The Bush Theatre: An Obsessive Story About Obsession

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 27th Oct 2019 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom

True stories, even in a fictional form, have the power to grip you by the throat, furiously shake...

Alice Birch’s “[BLANK]” at the Donmar Warehouse

Posted by Mert Dilek | 26th Oct 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom

Believe me when I tell you that there is much more to Alice Birch’s play [BLANK] than meets the...

Arinzé Kene’s “Little Baby Jesus” at the Orange Tree Theatre: Lyrical, Energetic and Wise Coming-of-Age Drama

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 26th Oct 2019 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Age, United Kingdom

Wow. Just wow. The moment you enter the auditorium of this venue it’s immediately obvious that...

Maxim Gorky’s “Vassa” at the Almeida Theatre

Posted by Mert Dilek | 25th Oct 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom

“Our family doesn’t get on,” sneers the eponymous matriarch of Maxim Gorky’s Vassa, now playing at...

Samuel Gallet’s “Mephisto [A Rhapsody]” at The Gate Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Oct 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Adaptation is too banal a word to describe the cross-fertilization of theatre and other art forms....

“A History Of Water In The Middle East” at The Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Oct 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer who has explored issues of Muslim and British...

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“The House of the Spirits” at The Cervantes Theatre

“Shukshin’s Stories” by The Theatre of Nations at The Barbican

Love in 3D: Multiple Guises for L’Amour at the Royal Opera House

David Baddiel’s “God’s Dice” at the Soho Theatre: Mid-Life Crisis as Science Confronts Religion

“On Bear Ridge” at the Royal Court: History of Loss in Ed Thomas’s Absurdist Play.

“Botticelli in the Fire” at the Hampstead: A Queer 15th Century Tale.

Samuel Bailey’s “Shook” at Southwark Playhouse

Slanguages, Hip-Hop, a Russian Play, Punjabi Poetry and Oxford University

Cultural Participation Policies: A Poverty of Ambitions

A Quietly Bold Statement from a New Artist with a Lot to Tell: Oona Doherty’s “Hard to be Soft” at Dance Umbrella Festival at Southbank Centre, London

Translating Trojan Horses

Annie Baker’s “The Antipodes” at the National Theatre

Sarah Rutherford’s “The Girl Who Fell” at the Trafalgar Studios: Death, Mourning, Co-Incidence and Healing

Ravers Under the Microscope: Dance Umbrella Festival Opens with Gisèle Vienne’s “Crowd” at Sadler’s Wells

Richard Gadd’s “Baby Reindeer” at The Bush Theatre: An Obsessive Story About Obsession

Arinzé Kene’s “Little Baby Jesus” at the Orange Tree Theatre: Lyrical, Energetic and Wise Coming-of-Age Drama

Maxim Gorky’s “Vassa” at the Almeida Theatre

Samuel Gallet’s “Mephisto [A Rhapsody]” at The Gate Theatre

“A History Of Water In The Middle East” at The Royal Court

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