Are we really in "a new era of male anger, societal discontent and rage"? This is what Royal Court artistic director David Byrne claims in the programme of Manhunt, Robert Icke's new documen…
Did you knit your scarf? A woman asked me while we were waiting in the line for the restroom. No! I wish I could, but I don't know how to knit, I answered. You should join the knitting club,…
I'm Aysha Zackria. I'm a 23 year old Queer Pakistani-American woman living in D.C. Through my experiences at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and the Eugene O'Neill Theat…
Turkish writer, theatre critic, and academic Zehra Ä°pÅŸiroÄŸlu's book Woman Plays features three theatre plays"Fathers, Uncles, and Others, Confrontation, and The Prison of Masculinit…
The room is thick with steam (ok, it's smoke machine smoke), an accordion and clarinet cycle through tunes that are joyfully melancholic, or perhaps melancholically joyful, in the way that o…
An Interview with Ms. Zeljka Turcinovic " dramaturg, editor of magazines: Croatian Theatre and Dance Magazine " Kretanja/ Movements, head of Croatian ITI Center, selector of Croatian Theatre…
Anxiety. Apprehension. Angst even. Yes, that's the feeling that rises in me as I come into the auditorium of Omnibus Theatre, in Clapham, south London, to watch Chris Fung perform in his own…
Much like the women it centers on, Roundabout Theatre Company's Liberation is rebellious and not just because it features nudity! Mainly I was struck by its violation of writing's most cardi…
An Interview with Mr. Horia Gârbea " Playwright, dramaturg, translator, Bucaresti, Romania Horia Gârbea " Born 1962 in Bucharest, Romania. Civil engineer, PhD. Many of Gârbea`s lite…
One of the joys of contemporary playwriting is its openness to flexible casting. In Ruby Thomas's 2019 play Either, for example, there are two lovers " denoted as A and B " whose story is pe…
Getting to the truth - the emotional truth and understanding. I think emotion more than ideology. It resonates with us is how we feel. I can understand that we can be in conflict, I…
The theatrical kamikaze that destroys all the mechanisms of the world and itself"that is, theatre as such"is the performance Nexxt, directed by András Urban, which premiered at the Novi S…
In November 2024, the world premiere of a new musical by composer Iván MacÃas, The Pillars of the Earth, took place at the Teatro EDP Gran VÃa in Madrid. The book, written by …
In February I caught Antonio Syxty's staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan's Leonardo Theatre in a production by Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi. Syxty's interpretatio…
But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape Just when you think you have it figured out Something new begins to take …I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King. " Florence + The Mach…
How long would you wait for your soulmate? In "The Demon Lover", a short story by Elizabeth Bowen, published in 1945, a young couple make a passionate vow during the first world war. When he…
Rarely have I spent such an intense ninety minutes watching a show, as I did the other evening at Milan's Franco Parenti theatre. From start to finish French dramatist Nicolas Bedos's Le voy…
Interview with Handan Salta " co-founder of the Istanbul Theatre Showcase " TheatreIST, theatre critic, literary translator. Handan Salta is a freelance critic and translator. She taught cou…
To read PART I of this report, go to this link. Â The line of Irish productions at 2024 Dublin Theatre Festival provoked questions about how to make theatre relevant to contemporary audie…
My carefully planned visit to the 2024 Dublin Theatre Festival started and ended in unexpected events. On the day of arrival, ten minutes after leaving the hotel, I was engulfed by crowds of…
In November, the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) awarded the 2024 Translation Prize to Bahram Beyzaie's Naqqali Trilogy, translated into English for the first time by Nikta Sabo…
Interpretations in cultures and languages external to Spain have been integral to the survival of La casa de Bernarda Alba since its composition in 1936. Federico GarcÃa Lorca was execute…
In his short story, A Report to an Academy, written and published in 1917, Franz Kafka imagines that an ape, called Red Peter, who has turned human, addresses an academy of academics and …
Diaries are dynamite " they hold secrets, and secrets can tear families apart. In Coral Wylie's debut, Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew, currently at the Bush Theatre, written records are lin…
British people are socially awkward: this explains why we talk about the weather, queue compulsively and pretend to be polite. It is also at the heart of our television culture, anything fro…