The myth of Oedipus is so central to our psychic world that I was really surprised how many people in the audience for this revival were shocked by the revelation of the protagonist's incest…
"My head feels like a bridge that all of Beijing has been walking over." The stage is bare except for a backlit figure who emerges in silhouette through a doorway, wearing a nondescript rain…
The stage explodes with ihi (essential force) and aroha (love, empathy) in Unreel, the new work by MÄori theatre company Te RÄkau Hua O Te Wao Tapu (which translates as The Blossoming …
The meeting point is in l'Animal a l'esquena, Malpelo dance company rehearsals site. Celrá forest and crops that surrounds the place will become the stages of the pieces included in Paisa…
The entire stage is the same shade of pale, dusty pink: the extra-long couch and side tables, the floor, the three backdrops encompassing the interior of an elegant urban apartment of the up…
Yuri Kordonsky's Eréndira at the German State Theatre in TimiÈ™oara is a visually gorgeous, well-acted, and imaginatively directed stage adaptation of a seedy and second-rate 1972 novell…
A couple of hours before watching José Rivera's play Cloud Tectonics staged at the German State Theatre in TimiÈ™oara, Romania, I was chatting with the theatre's head of dramaturgy and P…
At this year's Edinburgh Festival in the Grotowski Institute Residence Cube at Fringe 2024 Wachowicz/Fret Studio presented two performances: Border and Sheol/ש×ול. Both are extr…
How is the German State Theatre different from other Romanian public theatres? Last year, when TimiÈ™oara was the European Capital of Culture, international visitors were very surprised t…
The 6th biennial Singapore Literature Festival is held in New York City on October 19 and 20, 2024. Under the title "Living Adaptations," the festival will spotlight writing and directing fo…
Dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the musical Mozart! Contains fragments of the exclusive interviews with the creators of the show " Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay  The premiere of…
Roald Dahl evokes mixed feelings. He's one of the greatest children's storytellers, whose macabre books have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide; he was also anti-Semitic, and used…
All around me people are laughing uproariously, slapping their knees, bursting into applause mid song and here I sit in the middle of it all utterly baffled. Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We S…
Pari Saberi, an influential Iranian playwright, director, novelist, translator, and actress, was born into a cultured family in 1932 in Kerman, Iran. Her early exposure to art and literature…
For many Iranians, the contemporary history of the country is divided into before and after September 16, 2022, the day Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old young woman, was killed in the custody of t…
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. For Part II, click here. All the bad ones are afraid of sleep The biblical metaphor, commonly known in Poland, about evil that fears th…
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. For Part III, click here. Â Men " rulers of destiny It might seem that such an expressive image of women relegates male characters to th…
It might seem that the indefinitely prolonged Covid epidemic, which contributed to the postponement of the premiere of Picnic at Hanging Rock, overshadowed the topicality of the problems of …
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link.  Hayel Ali Al-Mathabi: In light of this technological storm that theater faces, like all forms of the arts and aspects of life in g…
Marina Hanganu is a theatre director, cultural manager and researcher exploring the intersection of art and technology from a practical and theoretical perspective. She holds a PhD in Theatr…
Although the idea of deporting people to Rwanda as a punishment is now, following the defeat of the Tories in this year's General Election, off the political agenda, the way we as a society …
Awatif Naeem is an award-winning TV and theatre actress, director, playwright, and critic. She previously served as the vice president of the Iraqi Artists Syndicate. She was born in Baghdad…
Theatre for broadly understood young audiences (0-16 years) is one of the most important cultural practices. It is future-focused and based on human rights, specifically, the right to perfor…
In Poland, the war is no longer just the national memory and has been present in our everyday life for more than two years now. Its impact on everyday life and the shape of many seemingly st…
Adultery is the great staple of modern British playwriting. The anguish of marriage, and the temptations of infidelity run like a red thread from John Osborrne's Look Back in Anger, via Haro…