“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.
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 3rd Jan 2023 | New York, Playwriting, Puppetry, South Korea, United States of America
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.
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Dec 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Religion, United Kingdom
Pain is, at one and the same time, something to avoid, and also something you can use. Kahlil...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Dec 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
What is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 4th Dec 2022 | New York, News, Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
Walking to the back of Sisters on Fulton, the excitement is palpable. A sizable group has gathered...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 2nd Dec 2022 | London, News, Playwriting, Translation, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Earlier this year in the Polish theatre journal Didaskalia (169/170, 2022), a pair of Ukrainian...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 30th Nov 2022 | Acting, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Joe White is great at staging fraught emotions. His Mayfly in 2018 vividly showed a family whose...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Nov 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Every day there is bad news about the NHS — junior doctors are exhausted, nurses need food banks...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 10th Nov 2022 | Documentary Theatre, London, Playwriting, Theatre and Decolonization, United Kingdom
Sudha Bhuchar’s Evening Conversations at the Soho Theatre: a calmly intelligent exploration of family identity
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Oct 2022 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Therapy is inherently dramatic. After all, it’s all about character — and it has the aim of...
Read MorePosted by Christy Romer | 28th Sep 2022 | Europe, Interview, Playwriting, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics
Young Europe IV is a large-scale artistic collaboration project to tackle the dominance of stories...
Read MorePosted by Jade Thomas | 12th Sep 2022 | Belgium, Essay, Playwriting, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America
African American drama, theater and performance has a rich and complex history. Only recently,...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 9th Sep 2022 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation
To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. Nahm: Let’s talk now about Texas Aunt. I said...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 8th Sep 2022 | Interview, Playwriting, South Korea, Theatre and Politics, Translation
Yun Mi Hyun is a playwright based in South Korea. After writing fiction and poetry in her early...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Fatouros | 23rd Aug 2022 | Chicago, Musical Theatre, News, Playwriting, United States of America
American playwright and concert pianist, William Robert Martin, is an emerging artist whose star...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Aug 2022 | India, London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
While Britain is experiencing a “summer of discontent”, with inflation, strikes and other...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 4th Aug 2022 | Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Yesterday evening I went to see Dog/Actor at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. Written by Steven...
Read MorePosted by Andrej Čanji | 2nd Aug 2022 | Playwriting, Review, Serbia, Theatre and Politics
National Theatre, Belgrade, premiere 12th March 2022 The Years of Crows is the great comeback for...
Read MorePosted by Cătălina Florina Florescu | 1st Aug 2022 | Interview, New York, Playwriting, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
In 2011, I published my first medical humanities book, Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily...
Read MorePosted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 23rd Jul 2022 | Interview, Playwriting, Serbia, Theatre and Art
An Interview with Katarina Saric – poet, writer, performer, activist-feminist (Montenegro)...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 19th Jul 2022 | Adaptation, New York, Playwriting, Review, United States of America
The first ten minutes of Robert Icke’s 3 ¾-hour Hamlet had me worried. Icke is a British directing...
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