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UNBOX ME! Written by Simon Jones. Directed by Simon Jones. Dramaturgy by Sara Giddens. Bodies in Flight Theatre Company. The Wickham Theatre, Bristol, UK, 25 February 2023. An ordinary worki…
Originally Shomit Dutta's new play Stumped was screened online from 27 September 2022. Streaming on-demand Original Theatre Online created a new hybridized form of online theatre that merged…
It's no secret that I'm an advocate for feminist, queer theatre. Or that I enjoy worlds of the fantastical variety, toeing the line of reality and imagination just so, crafting realization i…
"We're not here to make fairytales, we're here to follow them," quips the narrator (Adam Godley) early on in Once Upon a One More Time, the Britney Spears jukebox musical playing at the Marq…
There is a show at this year's Fringe called Distant Memories of the Near Future written and performed by copywriter and storyteller David Head. It is billed as a piece which imagines an AI …
When considering Okot p'Bitek's perspective on African tradition, it becomes evident that change is inevitable. If African tradition is lived in the midst of the battle of life, then Lawino …
Success always opens doors. Ever since the HBO drama Succession was lauded as a huge international hit, one of its writers and producers, Lucy Prebble, has been a hot property. Although I pe…
Lucy McCormick used to do music gigs and re-enactments, but she has now put her past and her friends behind her and is bent on exploring being in the present. This of course must include us.…
There is a little red brochure going around the Edinburgh Fringe titled #Danish. It represents the seventh season of work presented by the Danish Arts Foundation in Edinburgh, and this year …
It was exactly ten years ago that Big in Belgium " a season of work from Flanders " was first presented at the Edinburgh Fringe. This panorama of eight new experimental pieces came on the ba…
The first edition of Ukraine Fringe " under the slogan Festival for the Brave "Â will be held in blended form, in Kyiv and online, from August 21st to September 3rd, 2023. Ukraine Fringe g…
Thanks to the early 20th century ethnographic research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, the word 'guslar' may be more familiar " if at all in the English-speaking world " as a term indicatin…
You would not have been wrong to expect a feast in this show set at a giant dining table, fully dressed with crisp linen, wine glasses and silverware, a low hanging chandelier and subtly sig…
There are multiple ways to admire this production of a Greek classic, directed by Singaporean Ong Keng Sen for the National Theatre of Korea, specifically their opera section. The Korean Cha…
It is with great regret and sadness that we have learned of the untimely and sudden death of an outstanding Ukrainian theatre scholar and a wonderful, generous person and friend, Professor M…
Walter Prete is a playwright, author, actor, educator, dramaturg, and director. Born in 1991 in Ruffano, in the province of Lecce, Walter Prete approached the world of theatre as an actor at…
The recent production of Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa at London's National Theatre offers its English audiences what they like best: rural image of Ireland, nostalgic glow of the settin…
Ulviyya Heydarova: "I switch on my computer, open Word and put my heart and thoughts into action" If you have not heard anything about contemporary Azerbaijani dramaturgy, you should definit…
In Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger stated that "the way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe." In other words, our perception is influenced by beliefs and convicti…
By Kitty Brandon-James & Alma Prelec Vanya is alive; Vanya is alive and healthy; Vanya is alive and healthy and totally free. And we are safe because we keep silent. On 27 July a small g…
Trauma is the source of identity politics. In the case of African-Americans, the experience of brutal slavery, exploitative colonialism and violent racism are defining experiences in their h…
Egypt is represented by one play and a jury member at the second edition of Jordan's Al-Rahhalah Theatre " Nomadic Theatre Festival in Open Spaces. The second edition of the Al-Rahhalah Thea…
American television and film director Michael Engler is extraordinarily skilled at both comedies and dramas. Before earning Emmy nominations for Sex and the City (HBO), 30 Rock (NBC), and Do…
Fifteen years ago, The Anthropologists came to be in New York City, a group of devisers born of a deprivation of female-led story and artistic autonomy. One month ago, I was scrolling throug…
Directed by Fadi Skeiker with Wilma Hothouse Company favorites, the show's physical and visual landscape exposes the West's internalized cultural appropriation. In the audience of the Wilma …
