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Together with Wayne McGregor's dance piece, UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, Romeo Castellucci's reimagining of Jean Racine's Bérénice (first staged in 1670), with Isabelle Huppert in the…
He lived for 33 years, and then he left us. He had his first professional direction in the Zrenjanin theatre, where he staged Molière's Don Juan. He directed 13 plays and started the fourte…
Solo Performers John Rwothomack and Fidaa Zidan join forces to unravel the discovery of life after political rallies and prison sentences in Lines.
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Amidst the bustling metropolis of London, a group of aspiring theatrical talents (Kelly Guibal, Flavia Di Saverio, Thelma Osorio Euan, Maria Luc, Hana Tamaru, Arianna Folini) took to the sta…
A new show from Trick of the Light theatre company is always something special, and Suitcase Show"presented as part of this year's New Zealand Fringe Festival"is no exception. The core of…
2024's New York City Fringe has come to an end, eighteen nights of shows enjoyable, waspish, querying, high-caliber, and searching (on occasion, all things all at once). I had the privilege …
Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) is still in the hands of Britain, the colonial power, and several migrants are coming from neighboring Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Nyasaland (now Mala…
The southern city of ÅŒtepoti/Dunedin has played an important role in the history of Samuel Beckett production in Aotearoa. In 1959, one of the earliest New Zealand productions of Waiting …
Juan Mayorga might have been a crime writer in another life, he loves to set up complex, menacing conceits that explore behaviour on the fringes of criminality. What constitutes right? How f…
Seeing a play you much admired five years ago for a third time isn't always sensible. Will it be as good as you remember it? I saw JaurÃa, Jordi Casanovas' verbatim play based on the case…
Europa jest wielojÄ™zyczna. Europe " as a geopolitical concept, its residents, communities, and countries " is a multilingual space where people communicate in multiple languages such as …
Milan's international multidisciplinary performance art festival FOG, featuring theatre, music, and dance, is at its seventh edition. The brainchild of the Triennale theatre's artistic direc…
An Interview with Kostas Kapodistrias " Theatre actor and director, theatre manager/founder of Theatro Tsi Zakithos, Zakynthos, Greece One of the most authentic, inspiring and human great ac…
"What kind of service do submarines provide?" asks the machine's captain, Ricky Martin. "Silent service" is the proper answer. It is nearly the dénouement of Cayenne Douglass's Maiden Voyag…
Last year I went to the dentist for a toothache and was told that somehow, to my extreme disbelief, my tooth had grown another tooth in it. Well, my dens in dente is nothing compared to Dawn…
The question of universality faces entire series of utterly new answers, but not all of them find a place or are given a form to be exhibited on stage, as it is frequently mistaken for relat…
There are a number of firsts in the new Teatro Real production triple bill that brings together Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine (1959), adapted from Jean Cocteau's 1930 play, and Arnold Sc…
The 2023/2024 season has proved the year of Bernarda Albas. Lorca's 1936 drama was completed only a few months before his death, as Spain was edging closer to civic conflict. Its razor-sharp…
When Chenura Trust a Zimbabwean media company announced that they were working on a theatrical performance titled Haywire which was going to be centered around mental health issues, initial …
Susanne Kennedy doesn't do things by half. When she creates a world, it has its own logic, its own rules, its own ethos. It's not a world of participation but one where the audience are invi…
The Drifting Room, created and performed by Stephen Bain. The Performance Arcade 2024, Te-Whanganui-A-Tara Wellington waterfront, 22-25 February 2024. What if the theatre"that fixed architec…
It is 1930s Kyeongseong (what Seoul was called during the Japanese occupation), and the colonial Japanese government is enforcing a Japanese-only policy to bolster the forced assimilation of…
American actress of beauty and talent, Támara Torres is a legend of Orange is the New Black, the Netflix comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan. Her portrayal of Emily "Wee…
There are some myths about the opera that are not true. Firstly, that young people do not like opera. Secondly, opera audiences hate contemporary operas. If you think that both statements ar…
For me, this is the most emotional show on the London stage. Why's that? Because it's about Nye Bevan, who as Minister of Health in the postwar socialist Labour government set up the Nationa…
