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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“Figures In Extinction:” A Dance Trilogy Report
…performance, entitled “The List,” where, in a scene emotional to its very core, two dancers entered into a duet composed of delicate, almost weightless, bird-like movements that seemed to hover…
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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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Liu Xiaoyi’s Creative Revolution
…that hovers over the top half of his Zoom screen. He elaborates: artists in Hong Kong “are constantly thinking about their relationship between their own safe structure and the bigger…
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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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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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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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David McVicar’s new “Maria Stuarda” at Madrid’s Teatro Real
…it hovered above the stage. Maria dominates Act 2, a figure increasingly vulnerable, falling to the floor in fear and panic. She appears in a white veil and black dress…
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Alberto Conejero’s “En Mitad de Tanto Fuego” (In the Midst of So Much Fire): Addressing the Gaps from the Margins
…ideas of legacy, agency, and forgiveness, the play examined the spectre of Lorca that hovers over Rodríguez Rapún – the celebrated writer’s name cannot be uttered in a climate of…
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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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Oscar Barney Finn and Paulo Brunetti Interview
…way of expressing the opposite of Lorca’s interiority. Similar in different intensity in their searches but immersed in a violent and intolerable reality where death hovers. There is intolerance. Jack…
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Nick Payne’s One Day When We Were Young at Park Theatre: Time-Hopping Love Story Is Restrained By The Slenderness of the Plot
…exactly at the moment when both of them hover on the edge of expressing themselves. Somehow this is unfairly tricksy. Instead, Payne gives us some lovely moments of social awkwardness,…
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An Innovative “Romeo E Giulietta” In Milan
…the play an everyday earthiness, instead of the aura of romanticism that still hovers over some Italian productions. Juliet (Francesca Massari) and Romeo (Marcos Piacentini) make you think of any…
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“Stumped.” Live Theatre In The Age Of Hybrid Realities.
…of online theatre through blending the live and online, so their new live theatre production of Stumped equally defies and hybridizes genera categorizations by hovering around the borders of: black…
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“That Perfect Dark”: Samuel Beckett’s “Company” in Dunedin
…from a description of two lovers resting under a tree. His expressive body is perfectly matched with the text, at times hovering in space in stillness, at other times moving…
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Timelier Every Day: Kazimierska’s “Katie’s Tales”
…to her lover, away at war. Her hand hovers above a piece of parchment; she worries at her lip; she smiles, falters, laughs, gasps. She cannot write, and she turns…
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“From Dust.” Another Review. Holland Festival 2025.
Stepping into From Dust feels less like attending a performance and more like consciously entering a dream. In this virtual reality opera, Michel Van der Aa extends his innovation in…
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A Dramaturgy Of Desire
…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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Diego Garrido Sanz’s “Violencia” (Violence) at the Centro Dramático Nacional: exploring the possibilities of restorative justice
…their son, Iván was murdered in a school shooting by another pupil, Jaime, his parents Beatriz and Martín have come to a neutral location, an arts-community venue run by a…
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Santiago’s Teatro a Mil 2026: theatre, democracy and artistic responsibility
…A frustrated Vanya and a sleeping Serebryakov in Vania. Photo courtesy of Teatro a Mil Argentine director Guillermo Cacace provided one of the highlights of Teatro a Mil in 2024…
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