How to Write a Pandemic Play
Ten prompts for writing about the year 2020: 1) “It started with a slight cough, a rather dry...
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 Aleks Sierz | 5th Apr 2019 | Essay, United Kingdom
On Friday, March 29, 2019, was a black letter day. That is because it used to be the date of...
Read MorePosted by Judit Csáki | 25th Mar 2019 | Hungary, Review, Theatre and Politics
Every episode of the show called Secondhand is about the ingloriously deceased (?) Soviet Union,...
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 Vikram Phukan | 1st Jan 2019 | India, Review, Transmedia
For those of us that are perennially nostalgia bound—even for the sepia-tinted memories of the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Oct 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
The black cab is such an iconic symbol of London that it’s easy to forget that inside every taxi...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Sep 2017 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Some legendary plays are a disappointment when you see them again — they don’t live up to the...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 16th Mar 2013 | Adaptation, News, Russia
William Boyd’s new play Longing, based on two short Chekov stories, is a sell-out success in...
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