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The international, regional festival of contemporary theatre Desiré, which takes place in Subotica (Serbia) for the fifteenth year in a row " continues its fierce theatrical provocation and…
An American actor, an English director, and a Northern Irish playwright walk into a house in London to start working on a new production. This is not so much the opener of a joke as the tant…
Cruel war rages on without an end; another bloody war has just started. This is our world today. Amid suffering and violence, we yearn for another world"one without war. Even if it's unattai…
"I do not know how to write," Agnieszka Kazimierska's Katie tells her audience. At this moment"approximately a fourth into the play"her viewers bear witness to Katie's paralytic attempt to w…
Interview with Selma Rizvic, the founder of the Sarajevo Group Laboratory and the digital cultural heritage related organization DIGI.BA. Their work is recognized in the whole region of West…
The recent news that Russia's Supreme Court has banned the "international LGBT movement", describing it as an "extremist organisation" and raiding nightclubs frequented by gay people, has br…
Little Shop of Horrors is a famous rock musical by Alan Menken, with the book and lyrics written by Howard Ashman, based on the horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman (1960) " and in 20…
For some of us, the critical process, our practice " that is, what we do " is a continuous and contentious intersection of reading, thinking, challenging, transgressing, swerving and writing…
Since 2015 my theatre studies colleague, Cristina Cavecchi, and I have been leading Shakespeare prison workshops at the Puntozero Beccaria Theatre. This two-hundred-seater theatre is the onl…
Within the past six years, prominent Romanian playwright Saviana Stănescu has written two "AI plays" (What Happens Next, and ZEBRA 2.0) and the text for a dance theatre piece, E-Motion, c…
Waiting for Lucky and Quê Onde [1] were presented on the evening of Friday May 19, 2023 in Teatr BOTO (Boto Theatre), Sopot, as part of the Between.PomiÄ™dzy Dispersed Festival 202…
Orest Pastukh is a theatre and film actor, director, playwright and educator. He was born in the Galicia region (Western region) of Ukraine and graduated from the Institute of Art at the Car…
In this day and age, the word data evokes preconceived images of algorithms, artificial intelligence, and big data, especially as many of us rely more and more on computational devices to ac…
These two people are separated by history, geography, language, maths, and other school subjects and common truths. But they are united by love. Does this mean something in a society saturat…
When you head out of London on Highway 4 North, it is almost a straight line through to Lucan, and easy to imagine the relative ease of the journey by stagecoach in the years before, fir…
The 10th edition of the Madách International Theatre Meeting in Budapest coincided with the Jewish holiday Sukkot (Festival of Booths). It is celebrated for seven days, one of which was s…
How do you market theatre on social media? What strategies can a social media manager use to promote plays and musicals? How does TikTok's trending culture influence the type of content that…
"The life of man to represent, And turn it all to ridicule, Wit did a puppet-show invent…",- Anglo-Irish writer-satirist, essayist, philosopher, poet, owner of one of the sharpest feathers…
This is the third of a series of articles to discuss the Dialogue of Civilizations theater education program. The focus this time is to delineate its progression from an idea Vahdat Yeganeh …
Playwright Polly Stenham had a meteoric rise with this play, her award-winning 2007 debut which she wrote aged 19 and whose original Royal Court cast featured Lyndsay Duncan and Matt Smit…
At the University of Pretoria, South Africa's Student Gallery, I was met with the open space of the gallery floor with the white walls adorned with the framed photographs of one of South Afr…
It is easy to forget that when Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was first written and performed in February 1895, Ibsen's A Doll's House was already 16 years old. Both plays,…
Budapest is becoming a vibrant place and proving highly attractive to theatre lovers. All the flags of the world gather here, inspired by the energy and life-giving power of theatre. Surpris…
A long-running immersive horror production returns to New York with 'Nightmare Dollhouse,' exploring a surprisingly popular fear.
The full version of the article A Performance of Pediophobi…
Edinburgh in August is a kind of Mecca for theatergoers around the world. It is due to its International Festival and the Fringe that spread theater all around the city. Almost any place cou…