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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…
On the Edinburgh Fringe the number of plays investigating climate change is growing each year, and in the 2024 programme, there's a Climate and Sustainability section. At the Pleasance Dome …
In Two Minds, produced by Dublin's celebrated multi-award winning Fishamble, is playing at Traverse Theatre, Scotland's home for new writing. Dramatist and performer Joanne Ryan has created …
Tampere is Finland's third largest city" parallels are often drawn with Manchester, in part because of its shared industrial history, and also because of the frequency of rain! It is perhaps…
In my humble view, Tiago Rodrigues is one of the most important theatre makers at work today. His is a theatre that asks profound questions about what we value and why, and what we are p…
Director of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), Nicola Benedetti, chose 'Rituals that unite us" as the theme for this year's festival, which got off to a stunning start in the shape …
Hamlet, along with A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth, are probably the Shakespeare plays that are most often revisited today by writers, with very different intentions and s…
The Rubix festival, held for the second time in Porto Montenegro, in Tivat, represents an innovative and provocative combination of all branches, expressions and forms of art. Like a Rubik's…
Especially at this age, if you're going in to try to be looking for fame, you know, it is a myth. I mean then you really are misdirected, and you're gonna be very, very frustrated. I'm n…
