Review: Screens, Theatre 503
Recently there has been much said about the right to human mobility, with little of it in defence. As the global movement of people responds in quantity to mass suffering and destabilisation…
Recently there has been much said about the right to human mobility, with little of it in defence. As the global movement of people responds in quantity to mass suffering and destabilisation…
Taking part over the course of COP21, the Climate Change Theater Action is a series of curated short plays from global writers co-curated by Chantel Bilodeau, Caridad Svich and Elaine Avila.…
Maybe the weirdest outcome of theatre " and the most difficult to articulate " is what’s called ‘normalisation’. Theatre generates a lot of behaviours by making them soc…
I was a participant in a new festival in Cardiff called the International Performance Festival Cardiff, which brought an odd mixture of performance and arts from across the world together in…
Anyone with a passing interest in German Theatre knows Theatertreffen ('Theatre Meeting'), the biggest event on the German theatre calendar. For those who don't, here's a brief intro: a judg…
Theatre is a life-affirming medium that involves people coming together in a social space and sharing experience. This does not naturally lend itself to climate change, an anti-social subjec…
The words "amateur theatre" inspire dread across the Anglo-Saxon world, but in the East, it just means you aren't getting regular pay cheques from a professional company. It doesn't mean you…
Many seem to miss the fact that Macbeth is pretty far-fetched. Sometimes our understanding of supernatural elements borders on the mundane: 'Of course a dagger appears out of nowhere. Of cou…
The Sexual Offences Act (1967) was passed by the British government to give partial liberty to individuals wanting to have homosexual sex. It decriminalised homosexual acts of no more than t…
If you look back over theatre history, there is an interesting contradiction which emerges: almost all of the ground-breaking innovators in theatre history are in some way anti-institutional…