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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…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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…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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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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…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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…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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…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,…
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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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…be seen as uniquely American signs, to riff on the title. Problems can be looked upon from the Australian vantage point as happening “over there.” This raises at least two…
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…the stage, even in an unfamiliar language, adds a special aura to the audience’s perception of the production. Leaning Church, directed by Radovan Lipus, is a production of the Czech…
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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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…little in a boiling cauldron until it vanished completely (Bolaño 887). Bolaño never announces what is of paramount importance. Rather, he requires of his reader something like the “evenly hovering…
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…violence hovering just under the surface as her voice-over describes a stain that has appeared on one of the walls and tells of the protagonist’s various attempts to get it…
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…Acuña — founder-director with the late Luis Biasotto of the innovative dance-theatre company, Grupo Krapp — , hovers close by. A camera is set up and a camera operator, the…
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Tiruchiyai Meetta Sundarapandiyan and Blackout — two plays with different plots were presented with a slice of comedy at the annual event. Theatre Karpanai Kudhirai’s Tiruchiyai Meetta Sundarapandian is about…
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…shows from our repertoire. I started reading the works of your writers and fell in love with your literature (Ivo Andric and Danilo Kis above all). Among my long-term projects,…
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…houses are now regularly using parties to seduce a (new) audience. “About last night”, Kristof van Baarle asks himself: what does this trend have to offer to the theatre? Sometimes…
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Mozart! The Gem of European Musical Theatre 8th October 2024 
Back to the Updated Future: Rock Opera… 21st July 2024 
