Visionary director Ivo van Hove has descended on the evocatively retro Park Avenue Armory with the venerated Comédie-Française troupe in tow to present The Damned. The production is an adaptation…
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…opportunity to touch the very first version of Molière’s text, becoming spectators of Ivo van Hove’s performance at the Comédie Française, Molière’s home. Of course, this is not quite the…
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…she had intended. In 2022 she took part in many performances at the Rallye Moi(s) Theatre festival at Antananarivo’s Ivokolo Analakely Malagasy Cultural Centre. Even though they self-produce each show,…
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…Soul, it will be echoed by the language of overcoming censorship in Ivo van Hove’s production of the Three-act version, censored by Louis XIV Tartuffe or the Hypocrite by Molière,…
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…in the financial hub that is the economic capital of Côte d’Ivoire, embraces an expressly commercial function; since its first edition in 1993, the event has provided artists with the…
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…Optics of Art” symposium. It brought contemporary media and performance artists Benjamin Vandewalle, Julien Maire, and Sarah Vanagt into dialogue with scholars from theatre studies, history of science, and cognitive…
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…work evokes that seen on bigger stages, most notably the recent production of The Damned by Ivo van Hove at Manhattan’s Armory over the summer. Kate McGee’s atmospheric lighting design…
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…makers, composers and performers made it their specialty and were invited with their projects all over the world. Famous names like Ivo Van Hove or Alain Platel made a lot…
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…Salomão. The influence of Pinter and Shepard on the script is evident, though the directorial style, with echoes of Ivo van Hove, makes it feel distinctly contemporary. At over two…
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Vanya is alive; Vanya is alive and healthy; Vanya is alive and healthy and totally free. And we are safe because we keep silent. On 27 July a small group…
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In November 2024, the world premiere of a new musical by composer Iván Macías, The Pillars of the Earth, took place at the Teatro EDP Gran Vía in Madrid. The…
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…actorly vanity and insecurity up against the quirky vanities and insecurities of Chekhov’s characters and holds the result up to us as a fabulously silly mirror that’s also profoundly illuminating….
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Ellen Pearlman interviewed by Ivo Marais Ivo: These questions are crafted to reflect the solemnity of the AI biometric cinematic opera “Language Is Leaving Me” with its themes of…
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…– as symbols of consumer society and as representatives of consumerism in their gardens. The title of the novel by Jurica Pavičić, as well as the dramatization by Ivor Martinić,…
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…similar to the Catholic one. She names women through a megaphone: (…) Antonina, Ivory Tower/Monika Ivory Tower/My name is Monika/I AM THE BORDER/My body is the border. Then she undresses,…
Read MoreEllen Pearlman interviewed by Ivo Marais To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. I: Visual AI is at the heart of this piece, almost like…
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Dedicated to the 145th anniversary of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera “The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty.” The creative duo of librettist William S. Gilbert and composer…
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…is aghast. Both these actors are worth seeing whatever the ambivalences in Morgan’s script. Uncle Vanya, Lila Neugebauer, Vivan Beaumont Theater, USA, 2024, photo credits: Marc J. Franklin. Uncle Vanya,…
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…of French republicanism. In this, her approach aligns with that of the French-Ivorian scholar Maboula Soumahoro who, in her essay on race in France, Le Triangle et l’Hexagone: Réflexions sur…
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…actors and directors, among others, made discoveries and grew – to further understand themselves through texts by others, often out of time. Their Vanya, became, after four years’ work, Vanya…
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The Queen of Versailles Musical or the Funeral of… 29th October 2025 
“Trilogia Cadela Força – Capítulo II:… 6th August 2025 
“Aşınma” (“Corrosion”): A… 23rd November 2025 
The Filmed Performance “Woodland Bird… 9th November 2025 
James Graham’s “Punch” at the Apollo Theatre:… 30th September 2025 
Nearly Finished 15th November 2025