In Conversation with Deniz Başar: “Wine&Halva – A Play That Tests The Limits of Friendship Within Canadian Institutional Racism (part III)
In April 2020 Wine&Halva, a play by Turkish playwright and theater researcher Deniz Başar,...
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In Conversation with Deniz Başar: “Wine & Halva” – A Play That Tests The Limits of Friendship Within Canadian Institutional Racism (part II)
In April 2020 Wine&Halva, a play by Turkish playwright and theatre researcher Deniz Başar,...
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In Conversation With Deniz Başar: “Wine&Halva” – A Play That Tests The Limits Of Friendship Within Canadian Institutional Racism (Part I)
In April 2020 Wine&Halva, a play by Turkish playwright and theater researcher Deniz Başar,...
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Angella Emurwon: Writing For Me Is Like Breathing
Angella Emurwon is a playwright, theatre director and filmmaker. The name ‘Emurwon’ means seer,...
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Lloyd Lutara: The Ugandan Artist Who Refuses to Box a Story
Lloyd Lutara (LL) is a multi-form storyteller writing and producing theatre, film, fiction and...
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Anya Richkind: The Spontaneous Playwright in Experimental Theatre
Anya Richkind is an emerging Brooklyn-based playwright who has taken many different roles in...
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Interview with Playwright David Lescot
Guillaume Clayssen, a fellow playwright, interviewed David Lescot on his newest piece in June 2016...
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Samia Jaheen: The Story of All Stories
Samia Jaheen’s performance was part of the 10th Hakawy International Arts Festival for...
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“New Dramaturgies:” Insights Into Mark Bly’s Playwriting Exercises. Interview with Mark Bly
Mark Bly is an American dramaturg, editor, and lecturer. He was the chair of the MFA Playwriting...
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Paranoia at the Fore in Steppenwolf’s Revival of Tracy Letts’s “Bug”
Tracy Letts’s Bug may be fourteen years old, but this tale of a couple convinced that they are...
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Examining “A Black and White Cookie”
We can’t discuss unpleasant historical events or why you or I voted for that candidate without generating anger and accusations. A society which is afraid to think and respectfully consider different points of view will inevitably degrade its ability to understand. Then what?
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Welcome to the Age of the Latina Nerd: “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” at Steppenwolf For Young Adults
Welcome to the Age of the Latina Nerd! Anywhere you look—on stage, on screen, on the written page,...
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Who Am I, The Author? But Who Is The Author?: An Interview With Ulrike Syha
Ulrike Syha was born in 1976 in Wiesbaden, Germany. She studied Dramaturgy at the Hochschule für...
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Janice Okoh’s “The Gift” at the Theatre Royal Stratford East: Complex and Powerful Account of Race and Empire
Queen Victoria is a strong symbol of the old British Empire. For some 200 years, up to the 1950s,...
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Alexandra Wood’s “The Tyler Sisters” at the Hampstead Theatre: The Future Is Female In Epic Family Saga
What has Saint Augustine of Hippo got to do with new writing? At first sight, not very much. That...
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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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Ian Kershaw’s “The Greatest Play in the History of the World” at the Trafalgar Studios: Science Fantasy Hymn to Love
Naturalism is both the best thing about British theatre, being democratic and comprehensible by...
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David Baddiel’s “God’s Dice” at the Soho Theatre: Mid-Life Crisis as Science Confronts Religion
One of the great cultural divides is that between religion and science. Of course, as novels such...
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Arinzé Kene’s “Little Baby Jesus” at the Orange Tree Theatre: Lyrical, Energetic and Wise Coming-of-Age Drama
Wow. Just wow. The moment you enter the auditorium of this venue it’s immediately obvious that...
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The Enduring Tale Of “Imam-E-Hind”
Ahead of the première of Dastaan-e-Ram, writer Danish Iqbal discusses the joys and challenges of...
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