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Introduction Gdzie Jest Tata? (Where is Daddy?) as seen at the Review of New Theatre for Children in WrocÅ‚aw is a show produced by Everest Foundation, written by Jan Naturski, directed b…
This summer, Berlin's Volksbühne presented The Visitors, a new work by the choreographer Constanza Macras. The piece brings together Berlin-based dance company Dorky Park and young South Af…
The story about Koko the gorilla who learns sign language has been well documented in scientific research and films such as Koko: A talking Gorilla (1978), or Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks To …
Every year at the Edinburgh Fringe, Paines Plough, a UK touring company specialised in commissioning and developing new writing, brings a cluster of contemporary plays to the Roundabout, loc…
Creating theatre for the very young " one that can hold their attention, stimulate the right impulses, and convey just values " seems to be a huge challenge. Among the events of the fourth d…
The play Drapando, czyli Atak ZamszaÅ‚ego Starucha (Drapando, or the attack of the mossy old man) was presented at the 7th Review of New Theatre for Children. It was directed by Zofia Pin…
Púpätko is a beautiful show where sensory play meets nature. The show, aimed at children of 6 months through 3 years, provides a safe space to explore the different stimuli of nature.…
New plays can derive from many sources: a vivid imagination, novels, diaries, real-life episodes, autobiography, biography and history. Elena Mazzon's The Popess, drawing on the real-life fi…
A cast of young actors from diverse parts of the globe brought Malvolio's Fantasy to the Space venue at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. The group, members of Edinburgh University's Shakespeare…
In 2024, National Theatre of China in Beijing showcased an experimental avant-garde theatre work "Apple Tree" to talk about the tension in the contemporary marriage between a young Chinese c…
With nearly 4000 shows at hundreds of venues in the city, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a kind of beautiful chaos that is impossible to distil by a single person in a single article. To b…
As part of Here and Now, a new Arts Council England showcase, Tim Etchells, artistic director of the celebrated company, Forced Entertainment, has penned L'Addition (The Bill), teaming up wi…
Adapted from Lu Xun's novel, the play takes the same name, "Zhu Jian" (Forging the Swords), and has become one of the most popular productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024. The work…
UK-China Performing Arts (UKCPA), one of the UK's most prominent Chinese performing arts organizations, plays a crucial role in bridging Chinese and British performing arts cultures. Joanna …
Artistic practice, which allows for the creation and re-creation of social spaces as testing grounds for shaping communities, is an important means of socio-cultural expression, participatio…
Spoiler Caution: This essay contains significant plot details from The Queen of Versailles. The Queen of Versailles officially opened in Boston at the Colonial Theatre on August 1, 2024, aft…
On screen an image of worlds within worlds opens this Zoom version of Samuel Beckett's stage play Krapp's Last Tape. With the lights down low my laptop screen fills with a close-up image of …
Everyone knows Alan Menken " the composer, author of the famous animated films released by the Walt Disney Animation Studios " The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, …
I had the opportunity to interview frequent collaborators, writer-director Oscar Barney Finn and actor Paulo Brunetti in a bustling café in the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Both a…
The title of the play, The Amazing Doctor She Medicine Show, leaves one wondering who on earth was the amazing Doctor She. All is unveiled in this fifty-minute lecture-cum-interactive perfor…
On this year's Edinburgh Fringe a raft of reimaginings of Shakespeare's plays, by emerging and established companies jostle for punters' attention. Hamstrung, Migrant Shakespeare, A Method i…
Twenty-first-century theatre practitioners in the west typically fear irrelevance more than anachronism: press releases rarely waste the slightest opportunity to highlight the pertinence …
The five-hundred-year history of Italy's Commedia dell'Arte is neatly packed into Masquerade, a truly entertaining show, which offers a taste of Italy, past and present. The three strong cas…
A unique feature of Edinburgh's Fringe festival is its inclusive nature. Professional and non-professional companies from Scotland and around the world can take part and jostle for the atten…
Spoken word poetry has a huge following in the UK, and Luke Wright is one of the most talented exponents, breaking new ground with his audacious work. Wright took his first steps as one of t…
