Brazil

Bringing the Actor to the Brink of This Immense Abyss: An Interview with Christiane Jatahy

Posted by Christiane Jatahy | 31st Dec 2019 | Brazil, Interview, Theatre and Film

Created and directed by Christiane Jatahy, E se elas fossem para Moscou? is comprised of two...

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Four Brazilian Artists Choose New York as Headquarters of Their Resistance

Posted by Augusta Motta | 13th Aug 2019 | Acting, Brazil, News, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Evoé Collective was born a year ago founded by four Brazilian actresses based in NYC. Bárbara...

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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”

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 23rd Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Brazil, France, Review, Transcultural Collaborations

Exile, migration, refugee crisis, loss of home and family, and death are among many realities and...

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Staging The Present Moment: International Festival of Iberian Expression Theatre

Posted by Daniel Schenker | 19th May 2019 | Brazil, Festivals, News, Portugal, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Politics

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

Posted by Clarisse Zarvos | 12th May 2019 | Brazil, Documentary Theatre, Portugal, Review, Theatre and Gender

In the early twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published the essay Room of One’s Own, based...

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Performance Entre Le Réel Et Le Virtuel: Le Projet “Odiseo.Com”

Posted by Andre Carreira | 27th Dec 2018 | Brazil, Essay, Transmedia

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”

Posted by Aldri Anunciação | 30th Sep 2018 | Brazil, Dramaturgy, Review, South America, Theatre and Art

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

Posted by Francis Wilker, Giselle Rodrigues, and Glauber Coradesqui | 13th Sep 2018 | Brazil, Essay, Portugal, Transcultural Collaborations

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

Posted by Rathsaran Sireekan | 18th Jun 2018 | Belgium, Brazil, Festivals, Review, Singapore

The Kunstenfestivaldesarts (KFDA)’s commitment to promoting “cosmopolitan vision as an...

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Adaptation, Participation, Risk-taking: Creative Interventions In Contemporary Performance

Posted by William Gregory | 26th May 2018 | Adaptation, Brazil, Dramaturgy, Immersive Theatre, News, United Kingdom

Translator and theatre scholar Dr. Jozefina Komporaly reflects on a day of exchange between the...

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“Between The Lines” (Entrelinhas): What Women Do to Survive Oppressive Regimes

Posted by Michele Rolim | 31st Jan 2018 | Brazil, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Gender

The show Between The Lines is a manifesto about the barbarity that women suffer from an oppressive...

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“Thebes Land. Kassandra” – Migrant Myth

Posted by Edélcio Mostaço | 13th Oct 2017 | Brazil, Theatre and Politics, Uruguay

Uruguayan playwright Sérgio Blanco is well known in Latin America and other countries. He is one...

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Nudity, Art and Political Violence in Brazil

Posted by Danilo Castro | 14th Sep 2017 | Brazil, Festivals

Although Brazil is known throughout the world as a country with bare bodies, its population is...

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Rio 2017 – Theatre Jeopardized

Posted by Gustavo Guenzburger | 6th Jul 2017 | Brazil, Theatre and Politics

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

Posted by The Theatre Times | 5th Jul 2017 | Brazil, Germany, Playwriting

For the first time, The Ridiculous Darkness by Wolfram Lotz will be staged twice in Brazil. For...

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Vigor Mortis Visits Dr. Lucchetti’s Grisly Universe

Posted by Raphael Cassou | 2nd May 2017 | Brazil

“I have a horror of reality. That’s why I’m a fiction writer” – RF Lucchetti...

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Kick-off: The Opening Shots of Clowns de Shakespeare (BR) and El Galpón (UY)’s Coproduction of Fútbol a gol y sobras

Posted by Diogo Spinelli | 13th Apr 2017 | Brazil, Uruguay

From February 20th to 24th this year, I had the opportunity, along with Fernando Yamamoto and...

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The Many Festivals in the Festival of Curitiba

Posted by Francisco Mallmann | 7th Apr 2017 | Brazil, Festivals

The Curitiba Festival, which runs from March 28 through April 9, celebrates its 26th edition in...

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MITsp 2017 – To Provoke Theatre, Politics, and Reflection

Posted by Renan Ji | 12th Mar 2017 | Brazil, Festivals, Theatre and Politics

One can be surprised to see the brief life of MITsp (Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo)...

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A Brief Overview of The Theatrical Scene in Natal, Brazil

Posted by George Holanda | 3rd Mar 2017 | Brazil

I was born and currently live in Natal, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte, one of the states of...

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