“Rhinoceros” by Eugène Ionesco: A Novella
Rhinoceros (1959) is one of Eugène Ionesco’s best-known plays, one of the plays with which the...
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“History of Violence” and How Your iPhone is a Culprit
First of all, don’t be put off by the pompous, academic title. Thomas Ostermeier’s...
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Denying A Harsh Reality in “The History of Violence”
It opens with a manic attempt to clean. The sheets, the floors, the smell of the air, everything...
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Interview with Compagnie Dyptik
Founded in 2012 by two breakdancers, Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari, Compagnie Dyptik is...
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Glasses That Translate. How Is This Possible?
Writing about non verbal communication in his book Beaux Gestes; A Guide to French Body Talk, the...
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French Puppetry and Object Theater in North America and France
Between January and July 2019, the liveliness of the French puppetry and object theater scene was...
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Interview with Plasticiens Volants
In August and September, the street theater collective Plasticiens Volants (PV) return...
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Avignon 2019 – “Outwitting the Devil”: A Mesmerizing Dance and an Hypnotic Experience Created by Akram Khan
Outwitting the Devil, Akram Khan’s latest work, truly stood out within the line up of very...
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Avignon 2019: Seeking the Other – Staging the Paroxysms of Orientalism
Mahmoud & Nini is an unusual show –not only it does not look like your typical proscenium...
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Avignon 2019: “Outside” – Between Testimony and Political Provocation
Provocation – artistic, political, personal – is the signature style of the Russian theatre...
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Avignon 2019: “The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema” as Told by the Chorus from the Banlieu
Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma written by Martin Crimp, translated by Philippe Djian...
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Avignon 2019: Irène Bonnaud’s Amité and The Lessons in Juicy Comedy, Delicious Acting and Humanity of Being
Let me tell you a secret- I love the old good comedy, its extensive gestures, inappropriate jokes,...
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Avignon Festival 2019: “L’Amour Vainqueur”
What a delight, a relief and a sheer pleasure to sit through Olivier Py’s operetta for children...
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Avignon 2019: Imagining Two Plays That Embody the Ghosts of Europe. “Dévotion” and “Nous l’Europe”
Moving along with the themes of history, memory and forgetting – the focus of Paul Ricœur’s famous...
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Avignon 2019: “Architecture” – Between History and Philosophy
Walter Benjamin once said that storytelling is a form of “artisan communication”, a...
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Avignon 2019: Staging the Impossible. On Exile, Community and Hope in Christiane Jatahy’s “Le Présent Qui Déborde – Notre Odyssée II”
Exile, migration, refugee crisis, loss of home and family, and death are among many realities and...
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Avignon 2019: In Search Of Multiple Selves: “Multiple-S” By Salia Sanou And “Oskara” By Kukai Dantza
The focus of this review is inspired by the title and the theme of Salia Sanou’s multidisciplinary...
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Avignon 2019: Seeking Truth: On History, Memory and Fiction in Alexandra Badea’s Points de Non-Retour [Quais de Seine]
Following the themes of the Avignon 2019, Alexandra Badea’s Points de non-retour [Quais de...
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Avignon 2019: Reading the Open Ending of “Sous D’autres Cieux” (“Under Different Skies”)
An imaginative, dynamic, and visually striking production Sus d’autres cieux continues the...
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International Playwrights Showcased at Columbia University School of the Arts
In June 2019, Columbia University School of Arts staged the second annual International Play...
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