Big In Belgium At The Edinburgh Fringe 2023
…Queuer and two pieces from another Belgian regular SKaGeN – The Van Paemel Family and Sneakpeek Shadow Game. Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of the Belgian theatre scene is indeed…
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With Faith and Trust into the Future: The 10th International Theatre Olympics in Hungary
…as the political situation is right, we will host Russian artists again”. And as often happens in life – everything is indeed decided at the last minute. The Ukrainian Ivan…
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A Play About Abortion – “Hypothetıcal Baby”
…income from her profession and, therefore, takes on a side job as a shoe shiner. She plans to visit her mother in Vancouver for the Christmas holidays. However, a day…
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Tim Price’s “Nye” at the National Theatre: A Fun Life of the Creator of the National Health Service
For me, this is the most emotional show on the London stage. Why’s that? Because it’s about Nye Bevan, who as Minister of Health in the postwar socialist Labour government…
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Memorial To Professor Maya Harbuzyuk
…Professor Maya Volodymyrivna Harbuzyuk. Maya Harbuzyuk was a professor at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine, and Dean of the Faculty of Culture and Arts at this university….
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“The Pillars of the Earth”: Bestseller and Musical. An Exclusive Interview with Ken Follett. Part II
…interest in literary bestsellers. Thus, composer Iván Macías and lyricist Félix Amador – authors of several successful Spanish musicals, used as the basis for their latest productions El Médico Мusical…
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EXÓTICA by Amanda Piña
…Benga, Kurdish-Ottoman Leyla Bederkhan, and Mexican Clemencia Piña “La Sarabia,” as presented and recorded on European stages. Standing tall under the centennial sylvan décor by Albert Dubosq, Piña underlines that…
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“La Regenta” as Opera: a Coruscating Portrait of Smalltown Community Abuse
…sexual feelings for her. There is also the womanising Álvaro Mesía hovering in the distance who hopes to seduce her – Ana ultimately falling victim to two men who each…
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Depression and discontents: Daniel Veronese’s staging of “La persona deprimida” (The Depressed Person) at Santiago a Mil
…hour-long duration. María Onetto, the actress who created the role in Veronese’s first outing of the production in 2019, suffered from depression and committed suicide in 2023. Her ghost hovers…
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‘Strong Theatre With Unwavering Precision’: Into The Shimmering World Asks Us What Does It Mean To Be Good?
…formally precise form hovering on cross-braced timber pillars a metre above the floor of the theatre, separated from the audience by a dark moat, towards which descend a flight of…
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Getting Known
…one section of Beckett Briefs that doesn’t quite gel. Not I is a monologue in which Mouth, hovering eight feet above the stage in a tight spotlight, emits a furious,…
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Theatre Against Ageism: “The Secret Lives of Extremely Old People” by Rachel McAlpine
…“I will be COOL”; “Everything would be BORING, but not senior discounts” “Asleep on my hovercraft chair” [with matching illustration]; “I will tell storys to my grankids”. From the intimacy…
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Dropping Balms
…years in Manchester, hovers as its own mystery. Marjan’s enthusiasm for English is evident, as is her empathy with those trying to prepare themselves to leave Iran, but she never…
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The Brilliance of Nuria Espert: Secrets, Lies and “La Isla Del Aire”
…a toxicity between Flavía and Mencía that hovers over the proceedings from the beginning – the reason is revealed at the end of the play. In addition, Lía had a…
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Capitalism Meets Austerity in Àlex Rigola’s “Glengarry Glen Ross”
…on the margins of one wall of the auditorium. Sandra and Andrés hover around the opposing wall. Francesc watches Andrés and Sandra from across the stage, neither appear to register…
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Anything Can Be Bought If The Price Is Right: Juan Mayorga’s “La Colección” (The Collection)
…Susana, as if observing her every move. Carlos, their “assistant”, sometimes sits at a distance, observing the proceedings; at other times he hovers behind Berna and Héctor. For all the…
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“whole body like gone”: The Art of the Virtual World within Hannah Clarkson’s Exhibition of Samuel Beckett and Jocelyn Herbert
…daylight created the most wonderful experience of the infinite variety and play of light and shadow waltzing merrily across the floor, doors, walls and ceiling. Two hooded hairdryers hover over…
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“Love”—A Dissenting View
…these matters never rise to be gripping; rather they hover and dally as informational. At least from row J, the play’s events remain interesting ideas generated in improv material that…
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Bell Shakespeare’s New “King Lear” Understands The Joy Of A Good Tragedy
…space. This allows for a fluent orchestration of the play’s many diversions. And hovering above the stage is a gold cosmic spiral, like a galaxy, and centered disc (the sun?)…
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Laura Horton’s Lynn Faces at the New Diorama Theatre: Surreal Gig Theatre Event Explores Coercive Control Through Comedy
…about telling your boss to shove “your Dictaphone up your arse”, offer in-yer-face surprises, while the episode in which the C-word is spoken 40 times (one for each of Leah’s…
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