National School of Drama Prepares for First Production with Pandemic Protocols
With a larger than usual stage, spaced out seating for a masked audience and actors armed with...
Read MorePosted by Damini Nath | 22nd Oct 2020 | Adaptation, India
With a larger than usual stage, spaced out seating for a masked audience and actors armed with...
Read MorePosted by Shrinkhla Sahai | 21st Oct 2020 | Adaptation, India, Interview
As Agnipankh is televised, Mita Vashisht reflects on the shifts in theatre due to the pandemic....
Read MorePosted by May Selim | 13th Oct 2020 | Adaptation, Egypt, Review
Basing his work on Naguib Mahfouz’s 1981 polyphonic novel Afrah Al-Qobba’s Wedding...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 21st Sep 2020 | Adaptation, Covid-19, United States of America
Zoom plays can feel a little dry. I’m sure, after months of this quarantine, we’ve all had the...
Read MorePosted by Yizhou Huang | 12th Sep 2020 | Adaptation, China, Covid-19, Transmedia
The Lunar New Year of 2020 struck Chinese people as unprecedented as Coronavirus forced Wuhan to...
Read MorePosted by Tonderai Chiyindiko | 7th Sep 2020 | Adaptation, Covid-19, Essay, South Africa
After the unforeseen Covid-19 induced a public events hiatus where all forms of public gatherings,...
Read MorePosted by Ahram Online | 10th Aug 2020 | Adaptation, Egypt
The Al-Talei’a Theatre troupe is gearing up for two performances of their play Al-Seirah...
Read MorePosted by Emma Cooper | 30th Jul 2020 | Adaptation, Directing, Interview, IOTF 2020, Poland, Theatre and Dance
Anty-gone Triptych Part II is a melange of movement, song, poetry, and emotion. Giving the viewer...
Read MorePosted by Nikolay Shevchenko | 28th Jul 2020 | Adaptation, News, Russia, Transmedia
The “ironic, but reliable” version recreates the theater experience in the finest details. The...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 25th Jun 2020 | Adaptation, Interview, South Korea
The Korean theatre company ETS, which is an acronym for Eye To Soul, staged Charles Mee’s Big Love...
Read MorePosted by Xunnan Li | 24th Jun 2020 | Adaptation, China, Directing, Interview, IOTF 2020: Archives
This interview with Xuexi Li and Tianjiao Li was conducted by Xunnan Li. Both interviewees are...
Read MorePosted by Sravasti Datta - The Hindu.com | 11th Jun 2020 | Adaptation, India, News, Theatre for Young Audiences
The tribute will include readings from his collection of poems Duniya Sabki and a rehearsed...
Read MorePosted by Neeraja Murthy | 3rd Jun 2020 | Adaptation, Covid-19, Festivals, India
Pune-based Swatantra Theatre is set for a big virtual experiment from June 4 when it...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Apr 2020 | Adaptation, Directing, Germany, Review, Theatre and Film, Theatre and Gender, Transmedia
Virginia Woolf’s reputation has closely followed British cultural trends: in the interwar years...
Read MorePosted by Olivia Ek | 20th Apr 2020 | Adaptation, Netherlands, Review, Transmedia
There’s a colloquialism within the theatre community that ‘you know lighting design is good when...
Read MorePosted by Niloofar Mohtadi | 28th Mar 2020 | Adaptation, Iran, Review
A Review on Iranian Adaptation of Coriolanus in Tehran A free adaptation of William Shakespeare’s...
Read MorePosted by Daily Sabah | 16th Mar 2020 | Adaptation, Musical Theatre, Review, Turkey
Adapted by Turkey’s State Opera and Ballet from the story of the ancient city, Göbeklitepe...
Read MorePosted by Maria Jovita Zárate | 10th Mar 2020 | Adaptation, Philippines, Review, Theatre and Politics
In Orteza’s and director Sigion-Reyna’s Katsuri, representations of sacada (sugar farmers in the island of Negros) veer away from the typical, almost iconic, images of the sacadas as rendered by the social realist painters of the 70s— hoodied heads, a pair of eyes peering from layers of cloth wrapped around their faces, and hunched bodies. Katsuri’s stage harbored a diverse group of farmworkers housed in a kuwartel (quarter, usually of horses), carrying their own physicalized expressions of angas (spunk), a thin cache of spunk that fizzles out when the hacienda foreman and his overbearing son swing by to make routine inspections.
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 20th Feb 2020 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Now that’s what I call a star turn. Hitting the brakes on an express train, Lesley Manville lands...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 16th Feb 2020 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
A woman walks into her home. Then does another. And another. Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House is...
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