Natalia Lizorkina’s “Vanya is Alive” Is Both A Play and Witness Statement
Vanya is alive; Vanya is alive and healthy; Vanya is alive and healthy and totally free. And we...
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“Baghdaddy” at the Royal Court
What is the best way of talking about the Middle East? Should plays take a documentary or verbatim...
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“The Jungle And The Sea” Reminds Us War Is Profoundly Local, With The Intimate Negotiation Of Human Relationships
Review: The Jungle and the Sea, directed by Eamon Flack and S. Shakthidharan, Belvoir. After the...
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“Old Bridge”, Bush Theatre
Is the Bosnian conflict of 1992–95 the war that Europe forgot? Maybe, although most fans of new...
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Churchill’s “Far Away” at The Donmar Warehouse
Caryl Churchill, Britain’s best living playwright, is enjoying a spate of high-profile revivals of...
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Teatr Brama’s “Ghost Dance”
In the main Sala of the Vorpommen Theater in Greifswald, northern Germany, a row of bare-footed...
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“All That Remains” At Etcetera Theatre Camden: An Emotional Journey
What happens when somebody dies at the frontline? Who’s responsible for getting in touch with...
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Scenes of Returning: The First National Veterans Theatre Festival
The First National Veterans Theatre Festival, a partnership between the Feast of Crispian (FoC)...
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“Garry” at The White Bear Theatre
In the programme notes, director Graham Watts states, “there are hundreds of astonishing plays...
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Battlefield Generations: On The Iraqi Theatre Play “A Smell Of War”
A Smell Of War was staged in Cairo within the Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and...
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“Miruga Vidhushagam:” Contemporary Theme And Haunting Idioms
S. Murugabhoopathy’s Miruga Vidhushagam is a comment on civil society that stands mute spectators...
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“Goats” by Syrian Playwright Liwaa Yazjiat at The Royal Court
The civil war in Syria spawns image after image of hell on earth. Staging the stories of that...
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Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s “Bad Roads” at The Royal Court Theatre
War is morally acidic: it dissolves social rules, loosens inhibitions and gives permission to men...
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“Mahabharata”: A War Epic in Puppetry
Anurupa Roy’s much-feted Mahabharata thrilled audience with the innovative use of puppetry in...
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“The Whispers Behind the Battle Line” Revived on the Tehran Stage
The Whispers Behind the Battle Line is written by Alirezā Nāderi and directed by Mohammad Rezā...
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Opera, Sexual Violence, And The Art Of Telling Terrible Tales
As an art form routinely accused of contemporary irrelevancy, opera rarely makes headline news....
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“Henry V” Meets The London Blitz And Brings The House Down
Bell Shakespeare’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V–which opened in Canberra on...
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“Black Diggers” Memorializes Indigenous WWI Soldiers
In August 2012, I was invited by the Sydney Festival to work with Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director...
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War Children: The Heart Of Darkness
Jan Kott wrote that in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, history is shown as a nightmare, something that...
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