“Love”—A Dissenting View
Alexander Zeldin’s Love— a much-celebrated, quietly confrontational, British-devised piece from...
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Documentary Theatre
“TRACES:” An Interview With Co-Creators James Clements and Sam Hood Adrain of What Will the Neighbors Say?
TRACES is a new devised documentary theater piece presented by the investigative theatre group...
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James Graham’s “Best of Enemies” at the Noël Coward Theatre
TV is a strange medium, but James Graham is no stranger to its toxic charm. London audiences have...
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Godless Clergy Members in “The Unbelieving”
The Unbelieving is documentary theater (all the lines are taken from real interviews), but this...
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Sudha Bhuchar’s Evening Conversations at the Soho Theatre: A Calmly Intelligent Exploration of Family Identity
Sudha Bhuchar’s Evening Conversations at the Soho Theatre: a calmly intelligent exploration of family identity
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New Zealand Covid Response Dramatized in Moving Verbatim Play: “Transmission” by Stuart McKenzie
Transmission written by Stuart McKenzie. Directed by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie. 20...
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Raw, Revolutionary, and Painfully Honest: “Insulted. Belarus(sia)”
The new play Insulted. Belarus(sia) was written in September 2020 by Andrei Kureichik, a prominent...
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OYUB: Sounding Russian Docudrama
Documentary dramas engage the audience with social issues, and in Russia, documentary drama...
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Review: More Important Halves, Teatar Mašina igre in Collaboration with Teatar & TD in Zagreb, Croatia
What have millennial women fought for? “Did we fight for that? Why we fought for nothing,” cries...
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“Seven Days Later” at Sarajevo’s Narodno Pozorište
“Who was human before the war, remained so”, says one of the actors in the beginning of the play...
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“It’s True, It’s True, It’s True” at The Breach Theatre
Artemisia Gentileschi definitely had a hard time. Although she was an outstanding Renaissance...
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“Herrin Made” Used Theatre to Reflect Community History in Southern Illinois
Herrin Made was a play written and performed in the United States’ deeply rural area of Southern...
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The Fundamental Profanation
Stabat Mater is the most recent work by Brazilian actress, playwright, and director Janaina Leite,...
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Tom Morton-Smith’s “Ravens: Spassky Vs Fischer” at the Hampstead Theatre: Real-Life Cold War Chess Match
Today, we call it soft power. During the Cold War it was more like success at any cost—and by any...
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Can Dündar’s “#WeAreArrested” at the Arcola Theatre: Committed Political Theatre
Truth is the first casualty of war, and often it is journalists who have to pay the price. Killing...
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Reclaiming the Legend of Bhagat Singh
Piyush Mishra’s Gagan Damama Bajyo centers around the young freedom fighter’s ideology of...
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Translating Trojan Horses
In 2019, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi was asked to translate Trojan Horse, a play by Lung Theatre based...
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Richard Gadd’s “Baby Reindeer” at The Bush Theatre: An Obsessive Story About Obsession
True stories, even in a fictional form, have the power to grip you by the throat, furiously shake...
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“No Elections, Torture Instead”: Zarema Zaudinova, Rising Star of Russian Documentary Theatre, About Her Latest Work, “Torture”
Whatever preconceptions you have about documentary theatre, set them aside when you step inside...
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Lucy Prebble’s “A Very Expensive Poison” at the Old Vic: Post-truth Games with Docu-drama
The Russian state murders dissidents not only in their homeland, but also in the UK. Recent cases...
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