“Lie Low,” Royal Court
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Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Jun 2024 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics
Faye is okay. Or, at least she says she’s okay. But is she really? And, if she really is okay,...
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I’ve never been one for school reunions, but even if I had kept in touch with former classmates I...
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Polymath Philip Ridley has a rare superpower — he able to consistently astonish both audiences and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Jan 2021 | Playwriting, United Kingdom
Ten prompts for writing about the year 2020: 1) “It started with a slight cough, a rather dry...
Read MorePosted by Clement Lee | 6th Jan 2020 | Adaptation, Dramaturgy, Essay, Hong Kong, Theatre and Opera
This excerpt of the article is originally written in Chinese by the author. Full article will be...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Sep 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The past can often hang like a nightmare on the present. And, in the case of Jewish identity, this...
Read MorePosted by Síofra Ní Shluaghadháin | 15th Aug 2019 | Ireland, New Zealand, Review
Irish theatre company Restless Ecstasy’s production of New Zealand modern classic Skin Tight retains its tension in Dublin showing.
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 23rd Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Brazil, France, Review, Transcultural Collaborations
Exile, migration, refugee crisis, loss of home and family, and death are among many realities and...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 1st Jun 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
A hit of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Selina Thompson’s one-woman show salt is on at the Royal Court...
Read MorePosted by Aida Rocci | 31st Mar 2019 | Immersive Theatre, London, Participatory Theatre, Review, United Kingdom
Recollection takes up to six participants in a thrilling journey about the importance of memories and personal data. Going beyond the sensational premise, the budding Any One Thing ambitiously explores the ideas of ‘personalized’ and ‘immersive’ theatre in depth, taking the genre to the boundaries of what is real.
Read MorePosted by Clement Lee | 4th Mar 2019 | Canada, Festivals, Hong Kong, Review
Theatre as a memory vessel is nothing new to contemporary theatre. There is a reason why types of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Oct 2018 | Acting, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Blackout. Dark, the color of childhood fear. Black, the color of despair. Black. No light visible;...
Read MorePosted by Nicole Birmann Bloom | 22nd Sep 2018 | Adaptation, France, Interview
The 7th Edition of Seuls en scène, Princeton French Theater Festival presents Harlem...
Read MorePosted by Laurie Fyffe | 28th Jan 2018 | Canada, Playwriting, Review
Like pinpoints of light scattered across the map of shows, I have attended over thirty years,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Jan 2018 | London, Review, United Kingdom
The marvelous is a dangerous place. Especially in memory. Today I still remember seeing the first...
Read MorePosted by EfeJota Suárez | 30th Dec 2017 | Review, Spain
Silence. From the Latin “silentium”. The RAE (The Royal Spanish Academy) defines it as...
Read MorePosted by Christoph Leibold | 19th Sep 2017 | Austria, Germany
Hardly another art form is better suited for the work of remembrance than the theatre as a medium...
Read MorePosted by Anastasiia Gaishenets | 17th Jul 2017 | Interview, Playwriting, Ukraine
Theatrical season of 2016-2017 finally brought post-dramatic theater to Ukraine. With a...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 31st Mar 2017 | Chile, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Trauma affects everyone differently. Survivors may become fragile or embittered, depressed or...
Read MorePosted by Mary Barnard | 31st Oct 2016 | Peru, Review, Theatre and Politics
Cusco’s Grupo Impulso de Teatro remembers twenty years of political violence in Peru with ‘De pie sobre el espejo’ (2005).
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