Boundary Problems
…appeal with facile topicality. There was Oskar Eustis’s 2017 Julius Caesar, for instance, whose Caesar and Calpurnia were made up to resemble Donald and Melania Trump. And Daniel Sullivan’s 2019…
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We Passed Through The Wall Of Sorrow Together
…if everything else had vanished. The pain in our legs disappeared. Our voices grew stronger. The actors’ playfulness returned with warmth. The theatre itself became a space of release—a ritual…
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Meet ONG Keng Sen, the Artistic Director of Singapore’s T:>Works and Keynote Speaker at the 2024 Singapore Literature Festival in NYC
…really left NYC. Those years when I did my Masters I remember very vividly because it’s a New York that some say has already vanished. When I arrived in the…
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Desiré Festival 2023: Poetics of Andraš Urban, Circus of Marko Mandić, God of Jernej Lorenci
…the literature text by István Örkény from 1966, directed by Andraš Urban, represents political satire, the world’s senselessness of wars and warfare and the tragedy of specific prototypes and universal…
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“Youth Without God;” Unkind, Realistic Reminder
…Bernard Tomić, with the exception of Ivan Pašalić), exhibit a bloodthirst that exceeds anything that can be generated by meds. They are “born killers”, the video games having not caused…
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“Amahemhem”: Walking Alongside the Ghosts of Our Past
…fragments of his life story within his biography, as well as the driving force behind his photographic and journalistic work. Performer: Human van der Merwe. Photographer: David April (@davidaprilphotography) The…
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Craft of “Downton Abbey” and “Gilded Age” Director, Michael Engler
…aristocrat Agnes van Rhijn who reigns over an established order. “Well, it was fantastic working with Salli. I adore her. She is a completely original director with her own voice….
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The Social Theater of Ambulatory Care in Poland. Part 2.
…wołoczebne peregrination”) is a vanishing tradition of “Easter carol singing,” practiced in northern and eastern Poland. In keeping with the custom, the “carol singers” visit nearby homes on Easter Monday;…
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La Vie En Sickly Rose: Florian Zeller’s “The Son” at the German State Theatre
…of the upper middle class. Topped by a geometric candelabra that throws shade in concentric, sleek circles around the couch, Răzvan Bordoș’ stage design for Florian Zeller’s 2018 play The…
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New York City Fringe Begins April 1
…a little bit. Vanessa Peruda in All the Rage. Press photo. MZ: How do you feel about that? EZ: I like the variety. I like, you know, being able…
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Keeping Alive the U.N.’s Dialogue Among Civilizations – as Theatre
…long did you live in Turkey? VY: Almost two years. During the first year I was living with refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Iran in the city of Van’s U.N….
Read MorePlaywriting The “Next Generation.” How To Create A Character At The University Of Arts In Târgu-Mureș.
…I met Suzanne van Lohuizen from the Netherlands, who has unfortunately now passed away. She was my first teacher and she was excellent for me. I was in my twenties…
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Miriam Battye’s “Little Scratch” at the New Diorama Theatre: Restaged Adaptation of Rebecca Watson’s Novel Is Powerfully Theatrical
…Eve Ponsonby, and Ragevan Vasan — wear dark clothes and perform the words as if they are playing a 90-minute musical quartet. There is something fascinating about hearing the different…
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At the End of the Land: an avalanche of images that invites us to sit alone in time and space together
…young women in a Victorian-era boarding house. Speaking as one of these vanished women about “the day we all died” and what it’s like to be dead, Rubin guides the…
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Truth and Reconciliation in “Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept” – Kosovo
…hold the Kanuns have is so hard. Not only is there family expectation and generations of it, but the dead also must be vanquished. There is a scene where an…
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Great Acting: Training Your Mind and Body to be Perceptive – Learning About Yourself and Your Surroundings. An Interview with Zdravko Stojmirov
…intuitive, lucid, transformative in acting, also artistically-creatively and by interpretation/s – and you selflessly (contra stage egos and vanities around us) you offer many very good acting options-versions. Can you…
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“Macbeth” at the Donmar Warehouse
…Kathleen MacInnes and musicians Brian James O’Sullivan and Alasdair Macrae (also the composer). Rosanna Vize’s minimalist design effectively bifurcates the action between a white platform, which also doubles as a…
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Melati Suryodarmo and Alessandro Sciarroni Moving Within Patriarchy
…the Last Dance for Me explores a nearly vanished popular tradition that emerged in Bologna in the 1900s: the polka chinata, or crouched polka. The dance’s distinguishing trait is the…
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There Is Nothing To Know About The Theatre, There Is Everything To Discover About Theatre
…are reviving a part of the Slovenian folklore – oral tradition, but also of the tradition of the great Slovenian playwright Ivan Cankar and his dramatic requiem Beautiful Vida? SS:…
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The TikTok-isation Of Theatre? – “Dziewczyna, Która Podeptała Chleb”
…Miodek and Michał Jaros) sees her life vanishing away as a result of drug usage, herself living through a hell, in severe withdrawal, yet perfectly aware of how her dreams…
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