Between The REMBELIO OF POPOLARI (“Omilies”, Carnevals, Anonymous Poets) And No Stable Funding
An Interview with Kostas Kapodistrias – Theatre actor and director, theatre manager/founder of...
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Tag: Bertolt Brecht
Brexit Revisited
“Fetch me ’ammer.” (Edward Bond, Saved) “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with...
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Stratford 2019: “Nathan the Wise”- A Parable of Tolerance
“ I hear, I hear, come finish with thy tale. Is it soon ended?” – Nathan the Wise There are...
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“The Animals And Children Took To The Streets” at The Lyric Hammersmith
Whenever I hear the word “cosmopolitan” I think of Europe in the 1920s: German Expressionism,...
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In “Kwongkan,” Indian And Australian Performers Convey An Urgent Climate Change Message
Review: Kwongkan, Perth Festival 2019 “Kwongkan” means sand in the language of the Nyoongar...
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Brecht In Exile: “Galileo” In Brooklyn
New York’s Irondale Project presents a scrupulously faithful production of Brecht’s The Life Of...
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Subtle and Striking, Irondale’s Timely “The Life of Galileo” is Epic Theater
Irondale’s innovative and triumphant “Galileo” is Bertolt Brecht at his most excellent, cradled by an ensemble of dynamic and invested performers and pitched inevitably toward its audience with a playful, conscious eye toward its own didactic mission.
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Betraying Kane, the Musical: “4.48 Psychosis” Venables’ Operatic Version
4.48 Psychosis, by Sarah Kane, was turned into an opera by composer Philip Venables in a...
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Dark Times: British Theatre After Brexit
“In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark...
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How Brexit Ruins My Life
Brexit. The UK Referendum vote to leave the European Union — Brexit — took place on 23 June 2016,...
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Tokyo Festival Looks To Throw Open Some Doors With Fringe Elements
If the inclusion of Festival/Tokyo in Tokyo Festival’s diverse program of performing arts is any...
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Brecht Comes Home To Santa Monica With City Garage’s “Arturo Ui”
There are plays that feel timeless because they strike familiar chords and speak to something at...
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Keiko Miyata To Mark Departure From The New National Theatre, Tokyo, With Piece By Up-And-Coming Playwright
After eight years as artistic director for drama at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Keiko Miyata,...
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Robert Lepage Finally Makes It To Stratford With An Astonishing “Coriolanus”
We’re not in a movie house. We’re in Robert Lepage country, so it’s inevitable that the famed...
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Cross-cultural Encounters In World Theatre: Bertolt Brecht, The “Alienation” Effect And Chinese Drama
The German playwright and drama theorist Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is particularly famous for...
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Battle Cries For Liberation
At a staging in Kerala in January, Sara Matchett’s Walk: South Africa proved to be a harrowing but...
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Socialist Morality in “The Threepenny Opera”
On Friday, March 23rd, Boston Lyric Opera continued its run of The Threepenny Opera to a sold-out...
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Contemporary “Electra” by DumbWise at The Bunker Theatre
Electra is the protagonist in two Ancient Greek tragedies, one by Sophocles and the other by...
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How The Refugee Crisis Is Playing Out on The German Stage
Since 2015, over one million refugees have entered Germany. As a political event, the so-called...
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Brecht’s “Mother Courage” at Cairo’s Miami Theatre
The play El-Om El-Shogaa (Mother Courage) opened in Miami Theatre in Cairo on 4 September. The...
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