“Once Upon A (Korean) Time:” Review
The simplicity of the set was enriched with exquisite lighting design, by Oliver Wason, depicting the starry heavens above, exploding bombs, flocks of butterflies, even projections of characters.
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Playwriting
“Sons Of The Prophet,” Hampstead Theatre
Pain is, at one and the same time, something to avoid, and also something you can use. Kahlil...
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“Baghdaddy” at the Royal Court
What is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim...
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“In a World Without Roe,” Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre Fosters Theatrical Parity
Walking to the back of Sisters on Fulton, the excitement is palpable. A sizable group has gathered...
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Women and War: a Staged Reading of Two New Plays From Ukrainian Playwrights
Earlier this year in the Polish theatre journal Didaskalia (169/170, 2022), a pair of Ukrainian...
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Joe White’s “Blackout Songs” at Hampstead Theatre: Powerful Account of Mutual Dependency on Drink
Joe White is great at staging fraught emotions. His Mayfly in 2018 vividly showed a family whose...
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“Super High Resolution,” SOHO Theater
Every day there is bad news about the NHS — junior doctors are exhausted, nurses need food banks...
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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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“Ravenscourt,” Hampstead Theatre
Therapy is inherently dramatic. After all, it’s all about character — and it has the aim of...
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Young Europe IV: Non-Dominant Voices in European Youth Theatre. Interview with Zoe Apostolidou and Emel Aydoğdu.
Young Europe IV is a large-scale artistic collaboration project to tackle the dominance of stories...
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When Playwrights Complicate Dramatic Form: Recent Developments in African American Plays of the 2010s
African American drama, theater and performance has a rich and complex history. Only recently,...
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Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 2
To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. Nahm: Let’s talk now about Texas Aunt. I said...
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Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 1
Yun Mi Hyun is a playwright based in South Korea. After writing fiction and poetry in her early...
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Emerging Playwright Embarks on Gershwin Era Musical
American playwright and concert pianist, William Robert Martin, is an emerging artist whose star...
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“Chasing Hares” at the Young Vic
While Britain is experiencing a “summer of discontent”, with inflation, strikes and other...
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About “Dog/Actor” at the Etcetera Theatre
Yesterday evening I went to see Dog/Actor at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. Written by Steven...
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“The Years of Crows” at National Theatre, Belgrade
National Theatre, Belgrade, premiere 12th March 2022 The Years of Crows is the great comeback for...
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”Seven Women in Search of Mia” or ”Breast Cancer Trilogy” (A Postproduction Reflection)
In 2011, I published my first medical humanities book, Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily...
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The Death of Madam Dupin: Is the Balkan the Sub-Saharan Africa of Europe?
An Interview with Katarina Saric – poet, writer, performer, activist-feminist (Montenegro)...
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Unmanly Griefs: Robert Icke’s “Hamlet”
The first ten minutes of Robert Icke’s 3 ¾-hour Hamlet had me worried. Icke is a British directing...
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