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In 1999, Viviane De Muynck and Jan Lauwers set to work with the last chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses for the first time. Joyce's grandson, Stephen J. Joyce, explicitly forbade them th…
Of all of the performances and plays I have seen, this one stands out uniquely for several reasons. It is a collectively devised piece by three women of color who choose not only to create i…
Punchdrunk theatre, the eponymous progenitors of "immersive theatre," have been wowing their audiences worldwide since their early modest beginnings in Devon in the year 2000. Due to the nat…
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…
It is the second time that Los números imaginarios (The imaginary numbers), a Spanish company of collaborative and immersive theater, call for artistic residencies. Six projects have been…
The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber is a collaboration between the Korean theatre companies Playfactory Mabangzen and Yellow Bomb and the New York City-based Concrete Temple Theater.…
Ivo van Hove's production of Age of Rage is sourced from six plays by Euripides and one by Aeschylus, chronicling the cycle of violence and revenge befallen on the house of Atreus " starting…
Andriy Bondarenko is the dramaturg of the Puppet Theater in Lviv, Ukraine, where he lives, but he is also a co-founder of the Kyiv Theater of Playwrights, and the author of the dramatic poem…
Review: Stay Woke, by Aran Thangaratnam, directed by Bridget Balodis. The lingering smell of incense and the hurried crunching of murukku and thattu vadai greets the audience as we settle in…
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…
This story is part of a collaboration between Zolima CityMag and the Hong Kong Design Centre's new design knowledge platform bodw+. Over the next several months, we will explore how design u…
At Adishakti Theatre's Remembering Veenapani festival, a clowning troupe from Uruguay explains how simple scripts can inspire powerful performances. If the slow afternoons in Adishakti Theat…
Actor Gregg Mozgala describes himself as a "Triple Threat: "Actor, Writer, Cripple." The 42-year-old award-winning actor and theatre professional, who has cerebral palsy, has been challengin…
This is Part II of the two-part interview. To read Part I, click here. Yana Meerzon: Should we assume that with the change of government and the end of Medvedev's modernization, the state re…
Russia is my country, who better than me to clean up the ruins of our humanity. " Elena Kovalskaya Elena Kovalskaya is a theater critic, curator, and producer. She was born in Kerch, Crimea,…
OCEAN, or the touch of a relational lifeworld Sometimes, a performance, a work of art, reveals its timeliness in a time that does not favor its public appearance. Circumstances happen, and t…
Rasha Abd Elmonem " a playwright, independent theatre activist, and head of the training program at the Supreme Council of Culture (CSC) " shared her passion for theatre during the roundtabl…
During the very agonic and snail-slow, first foggy year under COVID of 2020, I met theater director Andrei Majeri, one of the most interesting and inspiring theatre people, at JoakimInterFes…
Youth Theatre, Novi Sad. Premiered February 27, 2022. A few days ago, a friend who is a teacher told me a story of her high school student who beat his fellow female classmate, hitting her w…
In a country at war, theatres continue to work… "(They) are so simple to offer war where they should kneel for peace," phrases torn out of the context of works acquire a new tone in the co…
Teatri ODA, Prishtina, 17th March 2022 Two actresses, both speaking in German, start talking about their national identity. They say they are Swiss and they question whether they have the ri…
The immediate trigger for the play was political and topical. West Bengal, in 1971, was passing through extreme instability. Fifty years ago, Utpal Dutt's play Barricade stormed Kolkata. …
Zagreb Youth Theater (ZKM), premiered on February 26, 2022 It is almost impossible to begin a review of the newest title in the Zagreb Youth Theatre (ZYT) program, Brothers Karamazov, wit…
Why did 46.8% of Americans vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election? Why did approximately 2,000 of them attack the Capitol building? Why do 54% believe Joe Biden to be one of the worst Pr…
Although I'm wary of declaring any literary work to be the greatest ever, Shakespeare's Hamlet would be a frontrunner. It's often proclaimed to be or voted Shakespeare's best play (Google it…
