Thursday, July 27, 2017
Despite having one of the world’s poorest economies, Burkina Faso is something of a world leader in theatre development, Nick Awde finds,
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The UK is hosting a cultural exchange with South Korea over the next 14 months, starting at Edinburgh and set to peak
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Since the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was founded 70 years ago, hundreds of others have sprung up all over the world to capture
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Romania’s international theatre festival is going from strength to strength under the guidance of founder Constantin Chiriac. Nick Awde reports. Sibiu has
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At the Spring Forward festival, emerging dance writers are offered support and mentoring to review the programme. Nick Awde finds out how
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It was just a year ago that Paris Fringe made its small but perfectly formed debut, emerging from a seemingly zero budget
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Outside of its annual May madness, Brighton Fringe is busy on the road throughout the rest of the year building links with
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A bizarre offer out of the blue is par for the course in Alvis Hermanis’ world. “When I was preparing La Damnation
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Since 1982, International Dance Day has been celebrated on April 29. Also called World Dance Day, events are coordinated by the International
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As part of the wave of the new mega-budget, mega-cultural hubs being constructed across the globe at the moment, Taiwan’s National Kaohsiung
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As a creation of the monolithic European Commission, the European Capital of Culture model has proved remarkably mobile in the way it
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When Jorge de Juan and Paula Paz first met on a production in Madrid – she had started as his new assistant
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While at a show one night in Copenhagen, director Henrik Grimback found himself considering how tackling a trilogy of plays rather than
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Two years ago I moved from London to Los Angeles and I’ve not regretted it. Admittedly I did have my reservations about
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Somewhere in a parallel universe, Nick Mohammed is a successful seismologist. However, in the here and now, after being lured from his
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In 2014, Kurt Egelhof spotted a piece of graffiti written on a toilet wall at the Grahamstown Settlers National Monument building during
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Making his third appearance in as many years as Captain Hook, Craig Revel Horwood clearly revels in the boos and hisses in
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Solo theatre has rapidly evolved over the past couple of decades into an adaptable art form that opens doors the world over,
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While terms such as ‘shared lighting’ have entered common parlance after the recent furore at Shakespeare’s Globe over the relevance of historical
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To the outside observer it may seem a weighty biennial, organised by an august institution, a national upholder of a 19th-century legacy.
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It’s unusual to find an international festival that also opens its platform to genuinely showcase what is new and exciting from the
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East of Europe, there’s a swathe of new cultural hubs springing up. Just opened or soon to be, each comes with a
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Unusually for a nation that embraces innovation, improvisation seems to have always been something of a foreign import in the UK. The
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Foreign productions at Edinburgh come with a range of budgets, from lavish cast-of-thousands spectaculars at the Edinburgh International Festival to shoestring bare-stage
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As the Edinburgh Festival Fringe steams full ahead, on the other side of the Atlantic the New York International Fringe Festival, aka
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A court case that could have repercussions across the US threatens to see the small theatre industry pitted against Actors’ Equity Association,
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The company behind Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker cheerfully plugs its eclectic mash-up of pop music, dance and underground culture, confetti, cosplay, anime
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Zanzibar is that rare thing: a land that has forgotten theatre – or possibly a land that theatre has forgotten. Either way,
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Starting up a fringe festival in any world theatre capital undoubtedly involves many challenges, but Paris Fringe has gone the extra distance
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Lemi Ponifasio has been invited by the International Dance Council to be 2016’s International Dance Day message author. His missive will be
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Whatever you call it – solo performance, one-person show, one actor’s theatre – monodrama, as it is increasingly known worldwide, is one
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