Satiric Re-staging of Colonial Battleground : “Company Kamupene” Written and Performed by Jamie McCaskill.
Company Kamupene Written and performed by Jamie McCaskill. Presented by Tikapa Productions and The...
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Theatre and Decolonization
Invisible Diaries: Lay Your Burdens Down Day
I’ve hit the wall. The big move is over but moving the “small stuff” all day reminded...
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Invisible Diaries: Sympathetic Magic
Grades went in. No death threats. A student wrote: “I learned something, and I laughed. That’s all...
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Shadow Theatre: Performance and the Imaginary in Contemporary Egypt
An essay by Nora Amin that traces the presence of shadow theatre within the modern and...
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“Almighty Voice and His Wife:” Love, Settler Colonialism, and Looking Back at the Audience
Almighty Voice and his Wife, a play written by Daniel David Moses in 1991, was recently staged in...
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National Theatre: Inua Ellam’s “Three Sisters” Surges with Narrative Energy, Depicting Sisterhood and Colonial Injustice in the Short-Lived Republic of Biafra
In recent years there has been a resurgence of progressive adaptations of Chekhov’s realist...
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“VAST:” Returning to the Natural Body to Combat the History of Colonialism
From Reunion Island to India, this play explores freedom and history. A young boy from Nepal...
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Colonialism, Farce and Absurdism: Ignacio Bartolone’s “Piedra sentada, pata corrida/Sitting Stone, Running Foot”
In 2013 Ignacio Bartolone created a buzz with his first play, Piedra sentada, Pata corrida...
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Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” Explores Colonialism, Resistance and Liberation
Last winter, at the Studio Theatre at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Canadian actor...
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In “Cloudstreet,” Nostalgia All Too Easily Redeems Australia’s Colonial Past
Set in a rambling and ageing house haunted by a colonial past, Cloudstreet is a theatrical...
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The Naked Archivist: Tradition In The Work Of Performance Artist Pichet Klunchun
Author: Rathsaran Sireekan Contemporary art’s desire to be “contemporary”, for many practitioners,...
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“There Is More Future Than Past” And “A Room of One’s Own”: Documentary Play About Latin American Women Artists
In the early twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published the essay Room of One’s Own, based...
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“Black: The Sorrows Of Belgium”–Luk Perceval/NTGent and “Flandria”–Roland Gunst/LOD
A continuous conversation, not a hot topic With the reopening of the Africa Museum in Brussels and...
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Danai Gurira’s “The Convert” at The Young Vic: Religion and Colonialism
Wow! First, the Black Panther team took cinema by storm; now, they have conquered theatre as well....
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Shakespeare In South African Schools: To Die, To Sleep–Or Perchance To Dream?
South Africa’s education authorities are reviewing the school curriculum. Basic Education Minister...
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Sheetala Bhat Documents The Lives Of Female Performers In Colonial India
Sheetala Bhat’s Performing Self, Performing Gender: Reading The Lives Of Women Performers In...
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“The Long Forgotten Dream” Raises Uneasy Questions About Performance And Colonization
A large, ochred sail swells, rolls and eases in the heavens of the stage. It forms both ceiling...
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The Tiger And The Anus: How KFDA Decolonises Cosmopolitanism
The Kunstenfestivaldesarts (KFDA)’s commitment to promoting “cosmopolitan vision as an...
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Shakespeare and Decolonization: #ShakespeareMustFall?
The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016 provided ample room for celebrations and...
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Can an English Artist Use Classical Nigerian Art as He Likes?
Reaction to Damien Hirst’s use/misuse of Ife art image. The insensitivity of many Westerners in...
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