Medea as a Border-Body [Part I]
Perhaps the 2024 production of La MaMa’s Medea, under Zishan Ugurlu’s direction and reimagining,...
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Medea as a Border-Body [Part II]
To read PART I of this essay, go to this link. The snake that Medea uses to make her...
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Igor Vuk Torbica (1987 – 2020) – Balkan “Prince of Theatre” – The third Igor’s Days
He lived for 33 years, and then he left us. He had his first professional direction in the...
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“Phaedra” at The National Theatre
How can old texts speak to us now? The point is not just to adapt classics, but to reimagine them...
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“The Burnt City,” One Cartridge Place
Punchdrunk theatre, the eponymous progenitors of “immersive theatre,” have been wowing...
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A Memory Palace on Tauris: Reprise of Gluck’s Iphégenie en Tauride at the Paris Opera
Gluck’s Iphégenie en Tauride doesn’t waste any time ushering the viewer into its mystical score....
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On The Other Side Of “Ant Street”: An Interview With Theatre Director Oliver Micevski
Oliver Micevski (b. Skopje, Macedonia, 1980) is one of the most creative and intelligently...
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Julia Pascal’s “Blueprint Medea” at The Finborough Theatre: Mythical Reboot
The rewriting of Ancient Greek myth offers a way of creating contemporary stories that have a deep...
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Theatre Nisha Revives “The Trojan Women”
The Chennai production promises a commentary on a war that is as relevant it was in 415 BC when...
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“Hercules” At Abrons Arts Center
The historic Abrons Arts Center on New York’s Lower East Side is the setting of a dynamic...
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Persian Hippolyte: Hybrid Performance Cultures, Hybrid Identity, And Hybrid Technology
In 2013, Goosan Artistic Group, an Iranian group of performance artists, created a promenade...
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A Greek Tragedy For Two Actors
Euripides’ Ion – Director: Ioli Andreadi – “Alfa Idea” Theatre – Athens Staging...
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Theodoros Terzopoulos’ “Return” To Delphi
A big tribute to the director and Euripides’ The Trojan Women at the Ancient Theatre of Delphi. Of...
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Glasgow’s Easterhouse To Stage Ancient “Trojan Women” Play With War-Scarred Syrian Refugees
A 2,400-year-old Greek tragedy is to be staged in one of Scotland’s most deprived communities to...
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Bearing Down On The Bechdel Test: Laurie Fyffee At The Ergo Arts Pink Festival!
In 2017, I came across the Ergo Arts Pink Festival with a mandate as follows: “Ergo Pink Fest is a...
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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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“Girls And Boys” at The Royal Court
This is Carey Mulligan week. She appears, improbably enough, as a hard-nosed cop in David Hare’s...
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How Far Should We Go When Depicting Violence on Stage?
Last year, London audiences have been horrified by the violence shown on stage in the National...
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Theatre Review: Odéon–Théâtre De L’Europe’s “Phaedra(s)” With Isabel Huppert At The Barbican
Polish theatre director Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Phaedra(s) is in London from the Odeon Theatre de...
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Plays In Ancient Athens Would Have Been More Like A Kate Bush Concert Than High-End Theatre
The September 4 live transmission of Euripides’ Medea will have brought an ancient Greek tragedy...
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