From Social Theatricality To Stage Theatricality: A Continuous Pandemic Script
The pandemic, like the tragedy of the 21st century, has a theatrical mode, and the social response...
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Tribute to 25 Years of Theatre of the Andes
The idea of celebrating the 25 years of Theatre of the Andes (Teatro de los Andes) was born from...
The Third Edition Of Loja’s International Festival Of Living Arts, Ecuador (FIAVL 2018)
The third edition of the Festival of the Living Arts of Loja (FIAVL), the southernmost Ecuadorian...
The Fundamental Profanation
Stabat Mater is the most recent work by Brazilian actress, playwright, and director Janaina Leite,...
The Theatre of Carolina Virgüez
Carolina Virgüez Serrato arrived at Rio de Janeiro in the early 80’s and knew she wouldn’t be...
Interview With Sergio Blanco: “A Creator Must Know The Times In Which He Lives”
The acclaimed Franco-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco was in Madrid to stage his play Ostia at...
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From Social Theatricality To Stage Theatricality: A Continuous Pandemic Script
The pandemic, like the tragedy of the 21st century, has a theatrical mode, and the social response...
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Dancing with a Deer, a Jaguar or a Snake
A diptych on the re-appearance of other-than-Human movements, with Amanda Piña and Rolando...
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The Fundamental Profanation
Stabat Mater is the most recent work by Brazilian actress, playwright, and director Janaina Leite,...
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The Bolshoi Theater School: Only in Russia and… Brazil
Twenty years ago, the school’s founders included leading Moscow ballet masters and today, a...
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“El Círculo” Review: The Vulnerability of Process as Performance
El Círculo will have another run in this month’s Santiago a Mil festival. This review is of a...
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Bringing the Actor to the Brink of This Immense Abyss: An Interview with Christiane Jatahy
Created and directed by Christiane Jatahy, E se elas fossem para Moscou? is comprised of two...
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“Inchoate Buzz:” A Testing Ground for Interaction and Interdisciplinarity
How far can bodily interaction amongst the audience members, with performance objects, and with...
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Isabelita Perón in the Spotlight: “Happyland” at Buenos Aires’ Teatro San Martin
Alfredo Arias has been based in France for many decades now, but he is an increasingly frequent...
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Trying to Transition with Asperger’s: Diego Casado Rubio’s “Millones de segundos/Millions of Seconds”
A performance for teenage schoolchildren of Diego Casado Rubio’s Millones de Segundos (English...
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Life on the Road: Mauricio Kartun’s “La vis cómica/A Humorous Streak”
There is no shortage of plays about troupes of traveling actors eking out a living on the road. To...
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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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Staging Forgotten Histories: “Kingdoms” at the Sarmiento Theatre
Romina Paula is perhaps best known outside Argentina for her work as an actress in seminal films...
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“Petróleo/Petroleum” – Piel de Lava’s Performed Deconstruction of Masculinity
For many in the English-speaking world, the company Piel de Lava is known primarily for its work...
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Plotting Yiddish Drama: A New Digital Resource
The history of Yiddish theatre is embedded – quite literally – in urban space. If you walk past...
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Four Brazilian Artists Choose New York as Headquarters of Their Resistance
Evoé Collective was born a year ago founded by four Brazilian actresses based in NYC. Bárbara...
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Popular Theater in Buenos Aires
The cliché phrase that Buenos Aires was the Paris of South America exemplifies the exaggerated...
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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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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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Staging The Present Moment: International Festival of Iberian Expression Theatre
FITEI – International Festival of Iberian Expression Theater, taking place in Porto, Portugal,...
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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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The Third Edition Of Loja’s International Festival Of Living Arts, Ecuador (FIAVL 2018)
The third edition of the Festival of the Living Arts of Loja (FIAVL), the southernmost Ecuadorian...
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When Poetry Is The Protagonist: “Lugones,” The Lord Of All The Words
Traditional literary analysis has focused on a tripartite division of genres as if they were...
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Performance Entre Le Réel Et Le Virtuel: Le Projet “Odiseo.Com”
Performance Between the Real and the Virtual: The Odiseo.com Project I will focus here on the...
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The Language Of Secrecy In Brazilian Performance “Quaseilhas”
In times of cognitive arrogance in contemporary reception, Quaseilhas is guided by the language of...
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On Vera Mantero’s Residency Program For Brazilian Theater Troop Aisthesis
It was Southern summer, but winter up North when Brazilian artist collective Aisthesis traveled to...
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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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The Power Of “La Pilarcita”: María Marull’s Opera Prima Celebrates Its Fourth Season In Buenos Aires
Pilgrimages have long served as expressions of both collective and individual faith, as well as...
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Adaptation, Participation, Risk-taking: Creative Interventions In Contemporary Performance
Translator and theatre scholar Dr. Jozefina Komporaly reflects on a day of exchange between the...
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A Cyclical Tragedy: Poetry, Humor, Theatre, And Neoliberalism In Argentina
Remar, An Improper Destination, written and directed by Mariano Saba, premiered at the Sportivo...
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Interview With Sergio Blanco: “A Creator Must Know The Times In Which He Lives”
The acclaimed Franco-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco was in Madrid to stage his play Ostia at...
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“Between The Lines” (Entrelinhas): What Women Do to Survive Oppressive Regimes
The show Between The Lines is a manifesto about the barbarity that women suffer from an oppressive...
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“Millions Of Seconds” by Diego Casado Rubio: On Being Transgender in Argentina
The desired body vis a vis tradition, and institutional normative sedimentation. ...
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“Thebes Land. Kassandra” – Migrant Myth
Uruguayan playwright Sérgio Blanco is well known in Latin America and other countries. He is one...
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The Words of The Plays
Continta me tienes, the Spanish publishing house, sent us the volume The Words of the Plays,...
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Nudity, Art and Political Violence in Brazil
Although Brazil is known throughout the world as a country with bare bodies, its population is...
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Fuerza Bruta Re-Interprets a Night Out at The Theater
Since Argentinian physical theater troupe Fuerza Bruta burst onto the scene in Buenos Aires in...
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The Work of a Poet: The Marull Sisters’ New Play “Hidalgo”
The Marull sisters do it again with their new play Hidalgo. From the minute Susana walks into the...
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“Fanny and the Admiral:” A Quasi-Metaphorical Scene of the Ideological Fissure in Argentine History and Politics
Fanny and the Admiral, written by Luis Longhi, premiered in 2016 at La Máscara Theatre, Buenos...
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Out of the Wings Brings Hispanic and Lusophone Theatre to London Audiences
Following its second annual week of play readings from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world,...
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Metamorphosis And Free Associations In “Cimarrón”
“A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it,”...
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“La Fiesta del Viejo”: A Fresh Perspective on a Classic Tale
It’s a beautiful Sunday morning in Buenos Aires, and while most tourists are rushing off to the...
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Rio 2017 – Theatre Jeopardized
The city of Rio de Janeiro has been historically acclaimed as one of the main hubs of theatre...
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“The Ridiculous Darkness” Is An Instruction Manual For Reality
For the first time, The Ridiculous Darkness by Wolfram Lotz will be staged twice in Brazil. For...
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“The Foundation” by Susana Torres Molina: A Mask Hiding Inside Other Masks
Susana Torres Molina, with her own dramatic text and very successful direction, is currently...
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Argentine Playwright Is Bold and Real in Two One-Acts
It’s good to be shaken off our predictable paths, and Ithaca’s Cherry Arts productions do that...
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Paula Marull’s “Yo no duermo la siesta” Delights Audiences at the Espacio Callejón
When Prince Charming shows up on a dilapidated motorcycle in the middle of the night, seemingly...
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Wagner’s “Forbidden Love” (“Das Liebesverbot”) at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires
German composer’s Forbidden Love is premièred at the Teatro Colón The Colón hasn’t offered Richard...
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Vigor Mortis Visits Dr. Lucchetti’s Grisly Universe
“I have a horror of reality. That’s why I’m a fiction writer” – RF Lucchetti...
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Polish Director, Michal Znaniecki, in Argentina, on Globalization of Art
Polish stage director on his version of Dallapiccola’s Volo di notte and Il Prigioniero at the...
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Conversation with Mauricio Kartún, Argentinian Playwright and Director
Born in San Martín, Buenos Aires province, Argentina in 1946. Plays: Sacco y Vanzetti (1992), El...
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