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Both Schumann and Beethoven are masters at the form particularly in their use of text painting, which is the practice of further emphasizing the emotional state of the character through harm…
Paradise Blue is perhaps the more famous in the trilogy of plays called The Detroit Project written by award-winning African American playwright Dominique Morisseau. The other two being Detr…
It's an ordinary Saturday morning. The October sun is already hitting hard, I am sweating. I am in Lilongwe the capital city of Malawi, specifically at the Lilongwe Community Centre hall; an…
Being close to others is intrinsically associated with theatre. In Shakespeare's London, theatre gatherings were condemned by the Puritans as evil. They thought the plague spread by theatre …
Rose Mbowa is an indubitable doyenne in Uganda's theatre. At Makerere University, an ivy league of sorts on the continent, where Mbowa spent most of her life, her name is often invoked in le…
In late March, as Spain experienced the effects of Coronavirus lockdown, publishing house uÑa RoTa asked their authors"novelists, dramatists, poets, essayists"to film a video to post on …
Song of the Goat Theatre was founded in 1996 by Grzegorz Bral and Anna Zubrzycki, and is now led by the former, in WrocÅ‚aw, Poland. The cosmopolitan nature of the physically and vocally-…
Some years ago, I traveled to Israel for a conference on dramaturgy. Losing my way at the train station, I was rescued by a soldier who chatted with me all the way to Tel Aviv. I dreaded wha…
IOTF: THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL ONLINE THEATRE FESTIVAL "In a world where you can be anything . . ." April 15th"May 15th, 2020 IOTF is an annual online theatre festival, showcasing the work o…
My Stay Is Almost Done and I Don't Belong to Anyone is the story of a desperate search for love and passion. The play's protagonists go on a quest for le grand amour, or that failing, its su…
Armchair theatre-lovers rejoice. During the lockdown, the National Theatre is streaming a selection of its past hits for free for one week at a time. These shows, originally filmed as part o…
It's been a strange few weeks. Despite the unprecedented scope of this cultural wound, I write to my city from a place of optimism " from an internal ache for community and togetherness. I w…
Donald Howarth, who has died in London aged 88, was one of the celebrated generation of playwrights whose work was first shown at London's Royal Court Theatre in the 1950s. He enjoyed nation…
"Theatrical space as a place of possibilities and (im) possibilities is revealed in the work of leading UK-Belgian company Reckless Sleepers. In the absence of a conventional narrative, mean…
Review: Dance Nation, directed by Imara Savage. State Theatre Company South Australia and Belvoir for the Adelaide Festival. Dance is at the heart of playwright Clare Barron's Dance Nation, …
Guillaume Clayssen, a fellow playwright, interviewed David Lescot on his newest piece in June 2016 and was translated for FrenchCulture.org by Jessica Cohen. Dough, a choral text with a fran…
First published in 2009, Didier Eribon's memoir Returning to Reims follows the French sociologist's return from cosmopolitan Paris to his small hometown in the wake of his father's death and…
Featuring a libretto based on a 1924 essay by Leon Trotsky about Lenin and fragments of a play, Octavia, attributed to Seneca about the Roman emperor Nero, this is a thrilling new opera stag…
Shakespeare lived his life in plague-time. He was born in April 1564, a few months before an outbreak of bubonic plague swept across England and killed a quarter of the people in his h…
COVID-19's impacts on society are unprecedented and nobody can say precisely when we will return to normal public life. Experts predict that COVID-19 will cut US$12 billion out of the entert…
While it can never really supplant the vibrancy and vividness of live, in-the-flesh theatre, the showcasing of performing arts in the digital space has expectedly received a fillip over the …
It's only been a week since London's West End went dark and theatres closed all over the UK, but it feels like months. Really. Like many others, I'm in self-isolation, stressed by working on…
Like many of us during the COVID-19 quarantine, I am nostalgic for the times when we could go to the theater and socialize freely. But at the same time I am thrilled by the response of the a…
With everyone in lockdown, observing physical if not social distancing, a story about isolation can have a particular resonance. And there are few places in the UK that are as isolated as so…
Samia Jaheen's performance was part of the 10th Hakawy International Arts Festival for Children, which took place between the 2nd and 8th of March. At the premises of the Tahrir Cultural Cen…
