An Interview with Lenerson Polonini, theatre director (Companhia Nova de Teatro, Sau Paulo, Brazil). Lenerson Polonini is a dynamic theater director based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. With a rich a…
Tove Ditlevsen was a Danish working-class poet, novelist and feminist icon. Her memoir The Copenhagen Trilogy was initially published in separate parts. Childhood and Youth came out in 1967 …
Nikolai Kolyada’s The Cherry Orchard begins after loss has already become the furniture of the world. In the Witkacy Theatre’s Polish-language production, presented at MİTEM, the Madác…
There are productions that do not so much tell a biography as listen to it and Sardar Tagirovsky’s Broken Melody, produced by the Almetyevsk Tatar State Drama Theater, belongs to that rare…
Marta Górnicka’s choral theatre has been wowing Europe for the last 15 years. At the age of 51, she is already a holder of major honorary professorships and lifetime achievement awards �…
Nina Plavanjac’s The Aquarium, produced by the Subotica National Theatre in Serbia and presented within the Hungary-Serbian Cultural Season at MİTEM, is a chamber work about inheritance �…
Davide Iodice’s Pinocchio. What Is a Person?, created with Scuola Elementare del Teatro / Conservatorio Popolare per le Arti della Scena and presented by Teatro di Napoli and Interno 5, is…
Ferdinand von Schirach was born in 1964, studied law and became a noted criminal defense lawyer. He turned his extensive experience into fiction with a collection of novels, screenplays and …
What if the guilt one feels on the death row is not for what he has (allegedly) done? The Fear of 13, written by Lindsey Ferrentino, and directed by David Cromer, opened on Broadway this Apr…
There are ballets about death, betrayal and ghosts. Then there is Don Quixote, where people clap, flirt, lie, fake death, shake tambourines and somehow expect all of this to end in a wedding…
It’s been six years since the end of Managed Approach, a project in Holbeck, Leeds, which managed a red light zone in 2014, before it was paused during COVID in 2020 and not reinstated in …
The interview took place on January 17, 2026. Maxim, do you remember your first conversation with Krymov? What did he tell you about the idea of the performance, and what was your first r…
Perhaps one of the strangest experiences one can have when moving to a new place is watching a performance tackling the exact same situation. Luckily, no two re-rooting stories are the same,…
At a time when, in the post-Brexit years, British theatre is increasingly insular, a visit by the Wooster Group, legendary veterans of American experimental theatre, is surely worth celebrat…
In a small town, where nothing really happens, K. works at VHS World, alongside her teenage friends (all misfits, according to the local twin bullies), and the boss, a middle-aged man who se…
Milan’s international festival, FOG, continues with productions from Italy and many parts of the globe. In late March I caught Frankenstein (History of Hate), a production by the much-accl…
Outside, mid-April in Basingstoke was all drizzle and grey light. Inside The Haymarket, Art of Andalucia opened another climate entirely. For one evening, the theatre felt closer to a Spanis…
In March, FOG – Milan’s annual performing arts festival – hosted Handle with Care, a production by Ontroerend Goed, the well-known performance-group from Ghent in Belgium. Ontroerend G…
To read PART I of this essay, go to this link. Having consulted with mana whenua[1]People with with authority over a certain area, in this case the people with authority over the area loc…
This article is dedicated to the memory of Rua McCallum – teacher, kaitiaki, scholar, performance practitioner, and playwright – who passed away on May 9th 2024. In her article “The Li…
Bondi Beach was premiered on the 7th of October 2023 at the municipal theatre in Ingolstadt. Further Productions followed in Regensburg, and the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam in 2024/ 2025…
Already active across a number of north European theatre contexts " from her base in Lithuania to Sweden, Norway and Germany " American- and Russian-trained director Yana Ross has just made …
Every day, for many weeks, we keep hearing about nuclear weapons. Part of the reason for the current attack on Iran by the United States and Israel is the idea, whether true or not, that the…
MITEM (Madách International Theatre Meeting), held annually at the National Theatre in Budapest, is one of Central Europe's major international theatre festivals. Since its founding in 20…
David Safier was born in Bremen in 1966. He trained as a journalist, worked as radio and TV presenter and script writer for TV before he turned his attention to writing novels. Those have be…