“The Great Wave” at The National Theatre: True Stories of Japanese People Abducted by the North Korean Regime
Until very recently British theatre has been pretty poor at representing the stories of Chinese...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Apr 2018 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
Until very recently British theatre has been pretty poor at representing the stories of Chinese...
Read MorePosted by Um Hyun-hee | 9th Dec 2017 | Documentary Theatre, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, South Korea, Theatre and Gender
Namsan Arts Center’s 2017 season opened with Censoring the Minority 2017 (written and directed by...
Read MorePosted by May Selim | 24th Sep 2017 | Documentary Theatre, Egypt, Festivals
The Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre (CIFCET) has just...
Read MorePosted by Cassandra Silver | 17th Aug 2017 | Canada, Documentary Theatre, Festivals, News
Review: White Man’s Indian presents a new take on the coming-of-age narrative. Darla Contois’...
Read MorePosted by Anastasiia Gaishenets | 15th Aug 2017 | Documentary Theatre, Transmedia, Ukraine
Work on a documentary performance called End of Imitation started last autumn. It was shaped by...
Read MorePosted by Oksana Dudko | 20th Jul 2017 | Documentary Theatre, Dramaturgy, Ukraine
During the post-Soviet period, Ukrainian dramaturgy lagged behind prose and poetry and was almost...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 3rd Jul 2017 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The recent general election result proves that the power of the rightwing press has diminished...
Read MorePosted by Molly Flynn | 26th Jun 2017 | Documentary Theatre, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
School #3, a documentary about everyday life in war-struck eastern Ukraine, recently won a Grand...
Read MorePosted by Finlay Greig | 11th Jun 2017 | Devised Theatre, Documentary Theatre, Italy
In the Italian region of Siena, perched on top of a hill, sits the sleepy village of...
Read MorePosted by Frederik Le Roy | 4th May 2017 | Documentary Theatre, Switzerland, Theatre and Politics
Realistic rituals Milo Rau and the International Institute of Political Murder. The Swiss...
Read MorePosted by Mark O'Thomas | 4th Apr 2017 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Much has been written over recent months about the apparent bubble in which we are all now living,...
Read MorePosted by Oksana Dudko | 28th Mar 2017 | Documentary Theatre, Playwriting, Ukraine
“How has theatre changed after Maidan?” is among the most frequently asked questions about...
Read MorePosted by Cristina Modreanu | 29th Sep 2016 | Documentary Theatre, Essay, Romania, Theatre and Politics
A powerful trend in Romanian new drama in the past few years focuses on re-discovering of the...
Read MorePosted by Daniele Avila Small | 30th Aug 2016 | Brazil, Documentary Theatre, News, Transcultural Collaborations
Rio de Janeiro hosted many interesting events in the last months. One of them was HOBRA – Artistic...
Read MorePosted by Like Davies | 18th Jun 2016 | Documentary Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
Sex work has long been a contentious issue – divisive for feminists and policy makers alike. The...
Read MorePosted by Molly Flynn | 27th May 2014 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
Natalya Vorozhbit is Ukraine’s leading playwright and co-author of Maidan: Voices from the...
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