Poetry Archives - The Theatre Times

Venus and Adonis: this “play within a plague” about Shakespeare is wildly romantic, erotic and colorful

Posted by Kirk Dodd | 5th Nov 2023 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender

Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the...

“All Of It” at The Royal Court, London

Posted by Verity Healey | 14th Jun 2023 | London, Review, United Kingdom

What is life? How can it be measured? How is it possible to compare one experience of life with...

“All Of It” at the Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 8th Jun 2023 | London, News, Review, United Kingdom

The summer season at the Royal Court, London’s premiere new writing venue, features two plays...

Art, Dance, and Film of Ingrid Nachstern and Cate McNider

Posted by Alexander Fatouros | 5th Jan 2023 | Interview, Ireland, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom, United States of America

It was a chance meeting at MoMA’s dance series “Some sweet day” that brought Ingrid Nachstern and...

The Death of Madam Dupin: Is the Balkan the Sub-Saharan Africa of Europe?

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 23rd Jul 2022 | Interview, Playwriting, Serbia, Theatre and Art

An Interview with Katarina Saric – poet, writer, performer, activist-feminist (Montenegro)...

An Interview with Grzegorz Bral Director of “Anty-Gone Triptych Part II”

Posted by Emma Cooper | 30th Jul 2020 | Adaptation, Directing, Interview, Poland, Theatre and Dance

Anty-gone Triptych Part II is a melange of movement, song, poetry, and emotion. Giving the viewer...

The “Time Traveler” Who Took Our Tobacco

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 11th Nov 2019 | Africa, Kenya, News, Transcultural Collaborations

The Akamba people of East Africa have a saying: “The visitor has the best tobacco.”...

Slanguages, Hip-Hop, a Russian Play, Punjabi Poetry and Oxford University

Posted by Raveeta Banger | 5th Nov 2019 | Applied Theatre, News, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations, United Kingdom

Oxford University hosted ‘Poetry in Motion’ lin June at Wolfson College to academics, students,...

“A History Of Water In The Middle East” at The Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Oct 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer who has explored issues of Muslim and British...

Zimbabwe Produces a Visual And Performing Arts Syllabus for Junior School: Grades 3 to Grade 7

Posted by Stephen Joel Chifunyise | 25th Sep 2019 | Africa, News, Zimbabwe

In 2015, I met with the late Stephen Chifunyise at the New Partnership for Africa’s Development...

Ugandan Show Tackles Language and Culture

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 18th Sep 2019 | Applied Theatre, News, Theatre and Politics, Theatre for Young Audiences, Uganda

It is still not uncommon to hear various parts of the continent being referred to as ‘Anglophone Africa’, ‘Francophone Africa’, ‘Lusophone Africa’, and so on. In fact, there are more French and English speakers in Africa today than there are in France and England respectively!