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While acclaimed American performance artist Marina Abramovic was exploring her own body, Russian...
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Theatre and Politics
“Eden” at The Hampstead Theatre: Building a Luxury Golf Course
In the medieval Mappa Mundi, which hangs in Hereford cathedral, the Garden of Eden is pictured at...
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“How To Rule The World” Is A Biting And Urgent Satire Of Australian Politics–That Feels All Too Real
How To Rule The World is Indigenous playwright Nakkiah Lui’s critical riposte to the intellectual...
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Tears of a Clown: “American Juggalo”
What is a juggalo? Let me think for a second…Oh! He gets butt-naked and then he walks through the...
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Brecht In Exile: “Galileo” In Brooklyn
New York’s Irondale Project presents a scrupulously faithful production of Brecht’s The Life Of...
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Russian Theatre: The Century of Violence
In the year 2017 Russian society passed through the jubilee of the Bolshevik Revolution. It would...
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Subtle and Striking, Irondale’s Timely “The Life of Galileo” is Epic Theater
Irondale’s innovative and triumphant “Galileo” is Bertolt Brecht at his most excellent, cradled by an ensemble of dynamic and invested performers and pitched inevitably toward its audience with a playful, conscious eye toward its own didactic mission.
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Review: Who Needs To Be Reminded “We Are Not Alone”?
“I want to believe,” declared Agent Fox Mulder in the 1998 television pilot for The X-Files. Two...
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“City Of No Illusions” Takes Refugees To The Border Of Life And Death
“City of No Illusions,” a political comedy that stages the modern refugee crisis inside a funeral home.
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Vikram Phukan: Mapping Resilience And Vulnerability
In the midst of external turmoil, how does one battle with one’s inner demons? In a world where...
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Shakespeare’s “Othello” In The Trappings Of Twenty-First Century America
An updated version of Othello now playing at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge...
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“The Petty Bourgeois‘” And “The Gambler‘s” Warnings About Anthropocentrism And Capitalism
For the first article about Czech theatre, I’ve selected works by two young directors, who belong...
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“Welcome To The U.K.” at The Bunker Theatre: Satire on Obstacles Facing Refugees
Refugees have an image problem—and it’s getting worse. But the widespread anger that their...
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“Ms. Smith Goes To Washington”-The Fountain Theatre At Los Angeles City Hall
On Thursday, January 24th a lucky group of citizens in Los Angeles was treated to a unique...
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“Hercules” At Abrons Arts Center
The historic Abrons Arts Center on New York’s Lower East Side is the setting of a dynamic...
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Ishy Din’s “Approaching Empty” at The Kiln Theatre
Write what you know, says the adage, and that’s exactly what playwright Ishy Din has done with his...
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Interview With Milo Rau “This Trial Would Never Have Been Possible In The Hague”
One of the few court hearings to address the crimes committed in Eastern Congo was actually an art...
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Rise And Shine: “AWAKE!” At The Barrow Group
The mission of AWAKE!, written and directed by K. Lorrel Manning and currently premiering at the...
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Plight Of Immigrant Women Takes Center Stage In İzmir
A theater group based in İzmir province has been preparing the play Hiç Kimse...
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A Review of “Conformist 2029” from the 2018 Boska Komedia Festival: “Those Who Would Give Up Essential Liberty, to Purchase a Little Temporary Safety…”
Konformista 2029 [Conformist 2029], directed by Bartosz Szydłowski. Presented at Teatr Łaźnia...
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