On June 13, 2022, I spoke with Guillaume Gay, who is operational and artistic director of the French Polynesia-based La Compagnie du Caméléon. Across the Whatsapp airwaves, fifteen thousan…
Over the years, our contributors have been addressing the topic of decolonization in theatre and performance from all four corners of the world. This interactive map aims to give our readers…
What do you do when you are blown away by a show, and yet you know that there is something inherently troubling in its premise? Or how about, what do you do when you go to see a play about a…
One of France's greatest prides is the network of African American artists who, in the mid-twentieth century, came to Paris. Josephine Baker, Beauford Delaney, Ada "Bricktop" Smith, Maya Ang…
A week after Josephine Baker posthumously entered the French Panthéon, a musical about two producers with a hairbrained scheme to outrage all "races, creeds and religions" debuted at the Th…
In 2017, the cosmetics company Nivea released an advert that was promptly pulled: a white woman's back, draped in a diaphanous, blanched robe, could be seen juxtaposed against the caption "W…
One of the highlights of this year's Avignon Festival was Boxing Shadows, written especially by Australian playwright Timothy Daly for the Isabelle Starker Theatre Company (Compagnie Isabell…
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…
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…
Pale Sister is the latest adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone (c. 441 BC), written by Irish playwright Colm TóibÃn especially for award-winning (and fellow countrywoman) per…