…cases of political pressure are the recent events in Sofia, Bulgaria, when the audience members were physically prevented from entering the building of Ivan Vazov National Theatre by nationalistic groups,…
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…a conversation between Alan Merton, a forty-four-year-old van driver from Gilmerton, a suburb in the south-east of Edinburgh, his colleague Davie and Brian, the foreman at the mattress warehouse where…
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…Gareth Fry includes about 100 speakers scattered throughout the house. This creates a playground for live Foley artist Ruth Sullivan who immerses the audience in the sounds of birds, brooks,…
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…used to be known as Carla del Ponte trinkt in Pristina einen Vanilla Chai Latte* and is a series of vignettes. And Carla del Ponte, the former war crimes prosecutor,…
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…director Eline Arbo, together with composer Thijs Van Vuure, prove that this ancient story is indeed the stuff of drama. In Arbo’s radical reimagining, Penthesilea and Achilles become contemporary rockstars,…
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…but where the boundaries between the two are blurred, as in his reworking of Uncle Vanya entitled Vania (escenas de la vida) (2017). The wooden box has been his preferred…
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…too? If the job of the playwright is to hold a mirror up to society, as Shakespeare did in his own time, then how do you reflect back all the…
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Anniversaries are great moments for reassessment. Ten years ago, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) first staged Tanika Gupta’s enjoyably epic history play, The Empress, about Indians in Victorian London, directed…
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…have a similar relationship with Shakespeare, but each time a theatre fan goes to see a new production of Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, they expect to see something different….
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…reading aloud. Alternately, it will recite Frost, Shakespeare, all the classics an American schoolchild grows up learning. There is something deeply comforting about it, and, in the spotlight and the…
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…on humanness arrive with subtlety in their bravado. Kitt and Kat are two louder-than-life characters commanding intimacy; it’s this very juxtaposition that gives them power. Brecht meets Sir Chloe. Shakespeare…
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…offers insight into a very different – and more typical – example of Bral’s work. Here an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play is presented at a gratifyingly accelerated pace by eleven…
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…practical and an aesthetic choice, telematics can serve pedagogical purposes in theatre education. For example, professor Dr. Tom Gorman from Coventry University in the UK uses telematics to rehearse scenes…
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…at the in-person festival (Ukraine, Hong Kong, France, Switzerland, the UK and the US). The audience members were mostly local, with a sprinkling of foreign guests (myself included) and a…
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…In our complacency, however, we are as blind as Shakespeare’s Prospero, whom Sarah addresses in her last words. Collective scene. Foto: Magda Hueckel/Arkiwum Artystyczne Teatru. How much more time do…
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…past roles. Rather, he embodies the roles he never got to play, the trust he was never given — and his Shakespearean monologues sound like: “I have been playing Hamlet…
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…The PM Theater’s production of “A Star without a Name” gives this question a Shakespearean answer: you cannot change life because you cannot alter fate, like a star that cannot…
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…and when the ideas should. I’m not exactly a Shakespeare fan, but I have to admit, he was a master at structuring drama and creating rhythm by alternating between fast-…
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…“building bridges and ladders” in the industry, declaring that “with visibility comes extreme accountability.” The second day of the intensive began with Drew Lichtenberg, Resident Dramaturg for the Shakespeare Theatre…
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…the exchange of ideas across borders, ensuring that influential texts—whether dramatic works or critical scholarship—reach a wider readership. Sabouri and Chason describe Bahram Beyzaie (b. 1938) as the “Shakespeare of…
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The Queen of Versailles Musical or the Funeral of… 29th October 2025 
“Aşınma” (“Corrosion”): A… 23rd November 2025 
“Trilogia Cadela Força – Capítulo II:… 6th August 2025 
A Theatre Of Boredom And Theatrical Distrust (André… 4th December 2025 
James Graham’s “Punch” at the Apollo Theatre:… 30th September 2025 
Dostoevsky on Stage. “The Mutt” by Anoushka… 7th December 2025 
Nearly Finished 15th November 2025