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Debating Identity: Is It Time to Rename Cairo’s Experimental Theater Festival?
by Ati Metwaly | 26th Sep 2025 | Egypt, Essay, Festivals
The Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater (CIFET) has long been a vital platform for the boundary-pushing theatrical voices in the Arab world, and beyond. Recently, debates have emerged over whether to keep “experimental” in its name, as the festival faces pressure to broaden its scope and attract wider audiences. The question now is how to balance honoring the festival’s experimental roots while evolving to meet the changing theatrical landscape of the 21st century.
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“My Father’s Fable,” Bush Theatre
by Aleks Sierz | 25th Jun 2024 | Nigeria, Review, United Kingdom
International Project – Dramaturgy Lab: Exploring West Balkan Plays – “Big Deal” By Mia Efremova
by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 17th Sep 2025 | Dramaturgy, Hong Kong, Interview, Macedonia, Transcultural Collaborations
Collective interview with Amy Sze (Theatre maker and arts producer, London, UK-Hong Kong), Mia...
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We Passed Through The Wall Of Sorrow Together
by Mehdi Shahedi | 26th Aug 2025 | Essay, Iran, Theatre and Politics
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“All Right. Good Night.:” A Poetic Meditation on the Art of Letting Go
by Victoria Zavyalova | 20th Oct 2025 | Directing, Germany, Review, United States of America
In All Right. Good Night., German docu-theater artist Helgard Haug turns loss into a language. The...
Bloody Ignorant Apes
by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Oct 2025 | Directing, Review, United States of America
Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential...
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“Buen Camino,” Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
by Margaret Rose | 13th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Review, Scotland, United States of America
“The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave”, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Aug 2025 | Edinburgh 2025, Festivals, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Oli Mathiesen’s dance piece The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave has been described by this...
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Bell Shakespeare’s New “King Lear” Understands The Joy Of A Good Tragedy
by Kirk Dodd | 20th Jul 2024 | Australia, Dramaturgy, Review, Sydney
Oscar Barney Finn and Paulo Brunetti Interview
by Jack Wernick | 20th Aug 2024 | Adaptation, Argentina, Interview
I had the opportunity to interview frequent collaborators, writer-director Oscar Barney Finn and...
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