Friday Essay: 50 Shades Of Shakespeare–How The Bard Sexed Things Up
It’s hard to imagine a more literary or successful author than William Shakespeare, formerly...
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“Oedipus Schmoedipus” at HKREP Black Box Theatre
Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (HKREP) has been presenting the biannual International Black Box...
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Traditional Storytelling Meets New Media Activism In Iran
In the summer of 2015, I conducted fieldwork in Tehran and Qom, Iran, with a small team of...
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A New Take On “An Enemy Of The People” Fizzes With Contemporary Relevance
The fitness of Henrik Ibsen’s plays to address the political questions of our modern lives renews...
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In “Trustees,” Belarus Free Theatre Mercilessly Demolishes Australia’s Cultural Debate
The Belarus Free Theatre, exiled from their home nation, has returned to Australia to collaborate...
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An Adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” Questions Being And Perception
It resembled a pot, it was almost a pot, but it was not a pot of which one could say, Pot, pot,...
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“En Masse” Is An Arresting Fusion Of Circus, Dance, And Classical Music
According to their artistic director, Yaron Lifschitz, Circa’s En Masse “speaks of fresh starts...
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1980s Berlin Comes To Life In “Welcome The Bright World’s” Quest For “Truth”
Performance group House of Sand, in collaboration with the State Theatre Company of South...
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“Lysa And The Freeborn Dames” Pays Tribute To Feminist Protests
The three-women chorus in this energizing, thought-provoking and very well written and acted piece...
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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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Technology And Disability Performance: Our Shifting Perspectives.
Over the last 20 years, the development of technology in performance has made us question what is...
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“Melancholia” Artfully Brings The End Of The World To The Stage
Melancholia is based on Lars von Trier’s 2011 film of the same title but has been adapted for the...
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From Child Stars To Lost Theatres: Capturing Australia’s Ephemeral History Of Live Performance
In 1825, Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld watched an Aboriginal Dance of Welcome at Newcastle’s East...
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Problems With Gender Equality In Australia’s Dance Industry
The dance sector in Australia has a gender equality problem. While nearly 70% of people working in...
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“Dreams In An Empty City”: A Strikingly Prescient Morality Tale About Banking
In our Great Australian Plays series, we nominate the best of Australian drama. There is no single...
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Life, Death, Gravity, Sex, And String Theory In “The Mathematics Of Longing”
Review: The Mathematics Of Longing, La Boite, Brisbane We face a skeletal, triangular pyramid with...
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When The Cultural Cringe Abated: Australian Drama In The 1970s
In our Great Australian Plays series, we nominate the best of Australian drama. If Australian...
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The Immigrant Dragons–Part I: How Australia Is Saving A Hong Kong Tradition
It’s a cool January afternoon at a bus terminal at Yuen Long station. A blue minivan pulls up....
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“Terrestrial,” A Tale Of Friendship, Loneliness, And Aliens In The Australian Desert
Fleur Kilpatrick’s Terrestrial, directed by Nescha Jelk for the State Theatre Company of South...
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“Still Point Turning” is a Vital Affirmation of Trans People Through the Story of Catherine McGregor
“The unifying trans experience is rejection and repudiation.” So says Cate McGregor’s character in...
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