“Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead” at the Barbican Theatre
Imagine yourself in a remote place: it could be a mountaintop, or a lost village, or the Amazon....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd May 2023 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Imagine yourself in a remote place: it could be a mountaintop, or a lost village, or the Amazon....
Read MorePosted by Emiliia Dementsova | 26th Apr 2023 | Adaptation, Greece, Review, Theatre and Politics, Theatre Olympics 2023
No matter how trends, themes, agendas and moods of society change, the focus of the study of art...
Read MorePosted by Emiliia Dementsova | 25th Apr 2023 | Adaptation, Greece, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre Olympics 2023
Get inside a woman’s head and, by understanding her, unravel the mystery of how the world...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 21st Apr 2023 | Adaptation, Review, Spain, Theatre and Disability
There is nothing easy about Alberto San Juan’s Lectura fácil. His adaptation of Cristina Morales’...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 18th Apr 2023 | Adaptation, Review, Spain
Alejandro Palomas has transformed his acclaimed 2005 novel La isla del aire (The Island of Air)...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 6th Apr 2023 | Adaptation, Denmark, Musical Theatre, Review
It’s about two years since I moved to the Oresund region, the liminal place between southern...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 23rd Mar 2023 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America
It can be difficult to gain contemporary audience for Shakespearean performance. Though the Bard’s...
Read MorePosted by Penelope Woods | 23rd Feb 2023 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Film, United Kingdom
“What’s your type on paper?” is frequently asked by contestants on the popular reality dating...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Feb 2023 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
How can old texts speak to us now? The point is not just to adapt classics, but to reimagine them...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 14th Feb 2023 | Adaptation, Design, Directing, Review, Spain
Catalan director Àlex Rigola, the former artistic director of the Venice Biennale’s theatre...
Read MorePosted by S.E. Gontarski | 13th Feb 2023 | Adaptation, Directing, New York, Review, United States of America
Much of my approach to theatre, to performance, especially, consists in locating and assessing a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Jan 2023 | Adaptation, Nigeria, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Earlier in the week, I enjoyed a rainy afternoon at home by watching Inua Ellis’s 2019 adaptation...
Read MorePosted by Toni Hildebrandt and Zainabu Jallo | 22nd Jan 2023 | Adaptation, Review, Switzerland, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Science
Sonne, los jetzt!, Elfriede Jelinek’s new theater piece, is imperative with an unknown addressee....
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 12th Jan 2023 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
On a cold November, New York Friday night, when temperatures approached freezing, the shivering audience waiting to experience Albert Camus’ The Fall at the Soho Playhouse checked in at the box office on the upper floor, then...
Read MorePosted by Emilija Kvočka | 4th Jan 2023 | Adaptation, Directing, Festivals, Review, Serbia
At this “Desiré” festival in Subotica, on the stage of the Dezső Kosztolányi Theatre,...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Monde | 19th Dec 2022 | Adaptation, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
The previews of &Juliet the musical, began October 28th 2022 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 5th Dec 2022 | Adaptation, Musical Theatre, Review, Sweden
There is a palpable sense of world-class musicianship as the ensemble of six instrumentalists and...
Read MorePosted by Gabrielle Edelstein | 25th Nov 2022 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Sydney
Review: The Tempest, directed by Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company. The Tempest, first...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 23rd Nov 2022 | Adaptation, Essay, Theatre and Politics
Since February 2022, Western and Ukrainian media have reported on the kidnapping and forced...
Read MorePosted by Orlaith Darling | 20th Nov 2022 | Adaptation, Essay, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The last few years in politics have gifted the keen observer many allusions to some of...
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