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Polish Shakespeare Online: Maja Kleczewska’s “Macbeth”

Posted by Konrad Zielinski | 8th May 2020 | Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Review

L. P. Hartley’s much-recycled observation that ‘the past is a foreign country’ seems an oddly...

Review of Porte Parole’s “The Assembly – Montreal”

Posted by Aisling Murphy | 30th Mar 2020 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Politics

No longer is there a “safe place” on the Canadian political spectrum; to be moderate is to be a...

Funny and Fem, “She the People” at the Huntington Theatre Company

Posted by Matthew McMahan | 23rd Feb 2020 | Boston, North America, Participatory Theatre, Review, United States of America

Visiting the city of Boston during its national tour, the Second City sketch revue She The People:...

A Hong Konger in Berlin – Armie Ma’s “No Coming Back” in Adelaide Fringe Festival

Posted by Clement Lee | 22nd Feb 2020 | Festivals, Hong Kong, Interview, Theatre and Politics

A one-man show by Hong Kong writer and performer Armie Ma will have its Australian debut in...

Broadway: Does “The Great White Way” Live Up to Its Name?

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 17th Jan 2020 | Africa, Essay, New York, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

Ntozake Shange, author of the famous Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide /...

A Russian in Hong Kong – Kristina Pakhomova and “Lady Death”

Posted by Clement Lee | 27th Nov 2019 | Hong Kong, Interview, Transcultural Collaborations

For most people in Hong Kong, the name Lyudmila Pavlichenko certainly does not ring a bell. She is...

Samuel Gallet’s “Mephisto [A Rhapsody]” at The Gate Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Oct 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

Adaptation is too banal a word to describe the cross-fertilization of theatre and other art forms....

Samuel Gallet’s “Mephisto [A Rhapsody]” at the Gate Theatre

Posted by Mert Dilek | 13th Oct 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom

What does it really mean to do political theatre? Does the theatre even hold any potential to...

Czech Centre London Presents: “Velvet Havel”

Posted by Julia Secklehner | 11th Oct 2019 | Czech Republic, London, Musical Theatre, Review

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Velvet revolution the Czech Centre brings to...

Jack Thorne’s “The End of History” at the Royal Court: State of the Left

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Jul 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Last month, Andrzej Lukowski, London Time Out’s theater editor, wrote a well-argued piece in The...

“Garry” at The White Bear Theatre

Posted by Laura Kressly | 3rd Jul 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK

In the programme notes, director Graham Watts states, “there are hundreds of astonishing plays...

Bollocks To Brexit!

Posted 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...

Halley Feiffer Finding Humor In The Pain

Posted by Delaney Powell | 4th Apr 2019 | Interview, United States of America

Halley Feiffer spent her college years and young adulthood drowning in alcohol, almost to the...

“Behaviour” Is Essential And Traumatic-Socially Conscious Theatre At Its Peak!

Posted by Ryan Pepper | 26th Mar 2019 | Canada, Review

It isn’t easy to review a play like Behaviour, written by Ottawa playwright Darrah Teitel and...

Tatty Hennessy’s “A Hundred Words For Snow” At The Trafalgar Studios

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Mar 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Fifteen-year-old Rory, a schoolgirl on the adventure of a lifetime, is puzzled. “Why,” she asks,...

In “Kwongkan,” Indian And Australian Performers Convey An Urgent Climate Change Message

Posted by Vivienne Glance | 6th Mar 2019 | Australia, Festivals, Review, Transcultural Collaborations

Review: Kwongkan, Perth Festival 2019 “Kwongkan” means sand in the language of the Nyoongar...

Zimbabwean Theatre Culture “Emerging” From The Shadows

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 21st Feb 2019 | Festivals, News, Zimbabwe

One of the first indications of the change in political temperatures was the production of the hilarious stage play ‘Operation Restore Legacy’ which re-imagines the military takeover in Harare that ended one of Africa’s longest and most controversial presidential tenures.