Bloody Ignorant Apes
Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Oct 2025 | Directing, Review, United States of America
Absurd as it may seem, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a demanding play about existential...
Read MorePosted by Margaret Rose | 29th Aug 2024 | Edinburgh 2024, Festivals, Review, United Kingdom
As part of Here and Now, a new Arts Council England showcase, Tim Etchells, artistic director of...
Read MorePosted by Mark Byron | 5th Jul 2021 | Essay, Ireland, Playwriting
Vladimir: Well? Shall we go? Estragon: Yes, let’s go. [They do not move.] Samuel Beckett...
Read MorePosted by Tomasz Wiśniewski and Katarzyna Kręglewska | 26th Jun 2021 | Between.Pomiędzy 2021, China, Covid-19, Interview
This is PART 2 of the interview. To read PART 1, click here. Wiśniewski: When I watched your...
Read MorePosted by Tomasz Wiśniewski and Katarzyna Kręglewska | 26th Jun 2021 | Between.Pomiędzy 2021, China, Covid-19, Interview
Godot in Wuhan was a special session at the Twelfth Between.Pomiędzy Festival conducted within the...
Read MorePosted by Mark Byron | 20th Jun 2021 | Adaptation, Essay, Ireland, Playwriting
Vladimir: Well? Shall we go? Estragon: Yes, let’s go. [They do not move.] Samuel Beckett...
Read MorePosted by Molly Grogan Zolima CityMag | 5th Jun 2021 | Adaptation, China, Covid-19, Hong Kong, Review, Transmedia
The Hong Kong Arts Festival has simultaneously commissioned two provocative productions of Neil...
Read MorePosted by Yizhou Huang | 12th Sep 2020 | Adaptation, China, Covid-19, Transmedia
The Lunar New Year of 2020 struck Chinese people as unprecedented as Coronavirus forced Wuhan to...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Jun 2020 | Applied Theatre, Essay, United Kingdom
In his wide-ranging, and widely read, survey of postwar British theatre, called State of the...
Read MorePosted by S.E. Gontarski | 12th May 2020 | Between.Pomiędzy 2020, Essay, Poland
Professor S.E. Gontarski is the honorary patron of Beckett Research Group in Gdańsk, created and...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 22nd Feb 2020 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom, United States of America
Antoinette Nwandu’s play Pass Over is a palimpsest. Its outer surface looks familiar: haunted by...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Oct 2019 | Review, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
Playwright Peter Nichols died aged 92 last month, just before the opening of this starry West End...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 14th Jul 2019 | Adaptation, Dramaturgy, Ireland, Japan, News
Why are thespians the world over so drawn to Waiting for Godot, that for many older actors playing...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 22nd May 2019 | Acting, Immersive Theatre, India, Review
Playing at the ongoing Damu Kenkre Smriti Mahotsav tonight is a fairly new production directed by...
Read MorePosted by Rathsaran Sireekan | 6th May 2019 | Belgium, Essay, Festivals, Participatory Theatre, Theatre and Art, Transmedia
The politics of (dis)association The sixth edition of Performatik, the Brussels Biennale for “live...
Read MorePosted by Shimon Levy | 15th Mar 2019 | Essay, Israel
In comparison with West European theater, Hebrew theater is young: only a century separates the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Jan 2019 | Essay, Playwriting, United Kingdom
There is a simple dinner-party game that can be played at no ostensible cost. The host asks, “Who...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Nov 2018 | Festivals, Ireland, Review
To those who feel overexposed to Waiting For Godot—which includes many theater snobs—no...
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 18th Sep 2017 | Directing, Essay, London
A titan of the stage, whose influence over the development of post-War British theatre was...
Read MorePosted by Kamelia Nikolova | 9th Mar 2017 | Bulgaria, Festivals, Germany, Transcultural Collaborations
The emblem of human existence The stage has a rectangular ramp on it, covered with a large pink...
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