Godot in Wuhan was a special session at the Twelfth Between.PomiÄ™dzy Festival conducted within the framework of the Beckett seminar in GdaÅ„sk. The University of GdaÅ„sk Samu…
On a pavement alongside a busy road, a line of people march one behind the other. The person at the front holds a long blue and white striped cane at waist height, horizontal to the ground, …
Although some theatres are tentatively reopening, the creative vigor of other companies is undimmed. Clean Break, which works with women in the criminal justice system, has recently released…
After months (and months) of watching theatre on screens large, medium, small and tiny, I definitely feel great about going to see a live show again. Of course, it's not the usual theatre ex…
The Hello Mini 3 actor reveals how audience's applause helped him overcome stage fright. Actor Vikrant Koul wants to flow through different media " films, OTT, and theatre. Currently seen in…
With a themed cocktail box, a program that doubled as a coloring book, and incredibly performed operatic arias tied together with a silly, lighthearted story, The Brooklyn Job (directed by S…
After more than a year of American racial unrest since the high-profile deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the more staid, traditional, and somewhat predictable virtual concerts from…
Vladimir: Well? Shall we go? Estragon: Yes, let's go. [They do not move.] Samuel Beckett originally subtitled his 1953 play Waiting for Godot "a tragicomedy in two acts". Vivian Mercier, the…
With Get Down, Belgium now has its first management agency dedicated to street dancers. That is essential for the future survival of an art form every bit as authentic and culturally relevan…
History, as they say, has a habit of repeating itself. When French theatre-makers seized hold of and occupied the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris for two and half months between March and M…
"I meant to do something about it, but I didn't." So goes the refrain when we, as flawed human beings, are faced with politically- and emotionally charged strife: "I meant to do something ab…
To re-open its season after the lifting of COVID-19-related restrictions, Paris's Théâtre de la Ville consortium is welcoming back one of its former productions: Six Characters in Search…
Tadeusz Różewicz (1921-1914) might need a few words of introduction for English-speaking readers, although he shouldn't. Poet, dramatist, writer of film scripts, prose writer, satirist…
The Spanish capital ranks amongst the European cities with the highest mortality rates for COVID-19, with deaths exceeding 2,200 per million (around 25% higher than London, and 33% more than…
Online performance, streamed instead of attended, has given theatre companies an immense amount of flexibility. Suddenly, the digital world offers all kinds of different freedoms. A good exa…
The Trianon Viviani Theatre is located in the Forcella quarter of the ancient center of Naples. It was inaugurated on November 8, 1911, with the famous comedy, Miseria e Nobiltà (Poverty …
During the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) heritage month, let us explore the fascinating works by East Asian directors and actors. The AAPI month honors the living, hybrid Asia…
A short documentary opening the series entitled Spradyczni artyÅ›ci (Sporadic Artists, dir. MaÅ‚gorzata Jakubowska in collaboration with Magdalena Mucha, 2020) premiered at this year's…
Now in its twelfth year, the Between.PomiÄ™dzy Festival of Literature and Theatre has made much of its international impact with extraordinary special theatrical events like legendary Pol…
AURIC (Songs from a Golden Age)Â at the Brighton Fringe is a unique aural journey and experience that " if not for Covid " would be ideally performed live in a church, or a cave, or any ot…
Can we be in two places at once? Can an event happen online and offline simultaneously? The current pandemic situation has taught us that we can overcome many problems. We can flourish despi…
The online performance depicts marriage rituals and interactions in the digital world with a touch of humor. Corporate executives Abhishek and Manya find each other on shaadipakki.com (a fic…
Although tragedy is not usually the preferred companion for hard times, Anglophone pop culture gravitated towards King Lear through memes and quotes during the global pandemic of COVID-19. O…
Written in 1918, Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary marked the advent of modern Chinese literature. Generally understood as an attack on the "cannibalistic" nature of traditional Chinese society and …
The Hong Kong Arts Festival has simultaneously commissioned two provocative productions of Neil Bartlett's The Plague, an adaptation of Albert Camus' famous novella. In 2016, an unusual poli…