Participatory Theatre Archives

Zoukak’s “In My Heart’s Eye: The Love Project” Deciphers All the Emotions Related to Love with Intelligence, Depth and Wit.

Posted by Christiane Waked | 17th Mar 2020 | Lebanon, Participatory Theatre, Review

The Greek philosopher Plato, summarized what is to be in love as “a serious mental illness.”...

Born Toulouse

Posted by Abigail Weil | 27th Feb 2020 | New York, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

To find Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec, you will first enter through the wrong door. The production is...

On Guts and Astonishing Effect: Gctc’s “Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools”

Posted by Aisling Murphy | 25th Feb 2020 | Canada, Participatory Theatre, Review

There’s a danger to hasty reaction. To act on instinct is to perhaps ignore a bigger contextual...

Funny and Fem, “She the People” at the Huntington Theatre Company

Posted by Matthew McMahan | 23rd Feb 2020 | Boston, North America, Participatory Theatre, Review, United States of America

Visiting the city of Boston during its national tour, the Second City sketch revue She The People:...

Screaming, Sweat, and Prizes in “Old School Game Show” at OBERON

Posted by Matthew McMahan | 22nd Feb 2020 | Boston, Participatory Theatre, Review, United States of America

One of Boston’s long-running interactive theatrical events, now featured routinely at the...

“Shear Madness:” Utterly Bostonian and World-Famous

Posted by Irina Yakubovskaya | 24th Jan 2020 | Boston, Immersive Theatre, Interview, Participatory Theatre, United States of America

This native Bostonian theatre production is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the...

Cosmos, Without Us

Posted by Abigail Weil | 15th Dec 2019 | New York, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Age, Transmedia, United States of America

I’m a thirty-four-year-old straight woman who grew up in the suburbs with an older brother. That...

Any One Thing’s Souvenir: Being a Guest in A Dystopian Birthday Party

Posted by Aida Rocci | 15th Dec 2019 | Immersive Theatre, London, Participatory Theatre, United Kingdom

I’m crouching along with a group of strangers, waiting for Anna to arrive. I have never met Anna...

“Tactile Quartet(s)” – Vera Tussing and Quatuor MP4

Posted by Rathsaran Sireekan | 4th Dec 2019 | Belgium, Participatory Theatre, Review

New Nexus Formed After several projects which look into ways to expand performing art’s notion of...

“The Black History Museum…According to the United States of America”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 15th Nov 2019 | Immersive Theatre, New York, Participatory Theatre, Review

The Black History Museum….According to the United States of America, Smoke & Mirrors...

HERE’s “Looking at You”: Exposure & Revelation

Posted by Abigail Weil | 17th Sep 2019 | Immersive Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Opera, Theatre and Science, Transmedia, United States of America

My instinct is to describe Looking at You, the new opera from librettist Rob Handel, composer...

Site-Specific, Immersive, and Interactive Theatre at the Napoli Teatro Festival 2019

Posted by Erin B. Mee | 21st Jun 2019 | Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Italy, Napoli Teatro Festival 2019, Participatory Theatre, Review

Most writing on site-specific, immersive, and interactive theatre focuses on productions in...

Participation in European Theatre: An Account of the European Theatre Conference, Dresden 2019

Posted by Christopher Harris | 6th Jun 2019 | Festivals, Germany, News, Our Stage European Festival in Dresden 2019, Participatory Theatre

For the most part, theatre can be recognized as the art of the collective. The ETC (European...

“Our Stage: European Bürgerbühne Festival”: Day Four, Tuesday

Posted by Christopher Harris | 2nd Jun 2019 | Festivals, Germany, Hungary, News, Our Stage European Festival in Dresden 2019, Participatory Theatre

Hungarian company ‘Lifeboat Unit – STEREO AKT’ bring their enticing and interactive performative...

“Our Stage: European Bürgerbühne Festival”: Day One, Saturday

Posted by Christopher Harris | 30th May 2019 | Festivals, Germany, News, Our Stage European Festival in Dresden 2019, Participatory Theatre

Here, at the annual ‘Our Stage Festival’ in Dresden, the average citizen is the center of the...

Performatik 2019 – Towards Indisciplinarity

Posted by Rathsaran Sireekan | 6th May 2019 | Belgium, Essay, Festivals, Participatory Theatre, Theatre and Art, Transmedia

The politics of (dis)association The sixth edition of Performatik, the Brussels Biennale for “live...

Should Our Funds For The Arts Pay For Cultural Democracy?

Posted by Nan Van Houte | 3rd May 2019 | Essay, Europe, Management, Participatory Theatre

You can also read this article in French here. This series of articles, commissioned together...

Escaping The Imaginary Of Engaged Arts

Posted by Goran Toka | 29th Apr 2019 | Essay, Europe, Participatory Theatre

This series of articles, commissioned together with HowlRound in the framework of IETM Hull,...

Rethinking The Purpose Of British Arts Institutions

Posted by Lyn Gardner | 21st Apr 2019 | Essay, London, Participatory Theatre, United Kingdom

You can read this article in French here. This series of articles, commissioned together...

Any One Thing’s “Recollection”: Breaking The Threshold Of Immersive Theatre

Posted by Aida Rocci | 31st Mar 2019 | Immersive Theatre, London, Participatory Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Recollection takes up to six participants in a thrilling journey about the importance of memories and personal data. Going beyond the sensational premise, the budding Any One Thing ambitiously explores the ideas of ‘personalized’ and ‘immersive’ theatre in depth, taking the genre to the boundaries of what is real.