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Every month, Etcetera gazes into the soul of a performing artist. We choose artistic interest over human interest. This time, we are happy to give the word to Kelly Copper (1971). Together w…
Imitation of Death staged in Kozhikode Imitation of Death, a play staged at Zamorin's Higher Secondary School in Kozhikode from December 28, 2021 to January 1, 2022, was a site-specific inti…
Blood Knot, by legendary South African playwright Athol Fugard, which ran at the Market Theatre in November, had its first and only showing on September 3rd 1961, in what was described as a …
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights. James Baldwin's The Amen Corner, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Lorraine Hansberr…
In 2017, Coligny, a small dorpie in Bokone Bophirima (North West Province), was thrown into the national spotlight when a young black man was allegedly killed by two white men over the th…
It's a sign of the times that one of my last trips of the year, to Ella Road's Fair Play at the Bush Theatre, was cancelled because of COVID. Not that much of a surprise really: it's o…
After 15 years of entertaining audiences in Japan and abroad, the actors of Saitama Gold Theater will take the stage for the last time with "Mizu no Eki" ("The Water Station") this month. Fe…
At the end of the 1960s, American soul poet Gil Scott-Heron said that the revolution will not be televised. Maybe that's right, but a lot of other things were being broadcast in that decade,…
In the face of many challenges in Summer 2021, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts moved forward with its 10th annual Dramaturgy Intensive deploying a virtual mode. As the Cen…
Where and when: Harry J. Elam, Jr. Theater at Stanford University from November 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, and 20, 2021. Ramsey is a pretentious, Iraqi-American polyglot and Berkeley professor. Art…
All the rage in Beijing's stand-up circuit, Pazilye Parhat says much of comedy stems from genuine anger she's experienced all her life. A little after 8 p.m. on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Fes…
Head to London's West End and you are likely to find all sorts of plays for families, inspired by some of the most loved children stories. There is JK Rowling's Harry Potter And The Curse…
What did Stephen Sondheim mean to me? This is an attempt to bring order to the chaos. My first encounter with his work is a rerun of the 1962 film adaptation of West Side Story (1957). I am …
It could be easy to assume that The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories written in Middle English at the end of the 14th century, would not hold much relevance to contemporary debates …
So-called method acting seems to be having a moment. Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst apparently didn't speak to each other on the set of their new film, Power of the Dog, to …
A daring and nuanced documentary virtual theatre piece about Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany for Cuba by means of the M.S. St. Louis"a diesel-powered passenger ship in 1939"is a chapter…
The classic play 'Dance Like a Man' captures the subtle undertones found in familial relationships. On the surface, Mahesh Dattani's play, Dance Like a Man explores relationships withi…
Metsi, staged at the State Theatre is a daring and brave production in how it includes elements of dance, music and drama into one tapestry of creativity. In doing this, it creates two…
A couple of days ago, I watched a live stream of Milk and Gall, an American-based playwright and screenwriter Mathilde Dratwa's new play at Theatre 503. Set in a Brooklyn apartment, the plot…
Ten mentor Mothers and one Father, devised theatre, drama therapy, healing, and community performances. This is You Will Never Walk Alone. It is beyond theatre, storytelling, and perfo…
Is the Bosnian conflict of 1992"95 the war that Europe forgot? Maybe, although most fans of new writing for the British stage will remember its massacres as the inciting incident for Sarah K…
Italian theatre director Anna Dora Dorno talks about her project, Dante Beyond Borders. Italy was among the initial sufferers of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than the numbers, the sights of o…
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped companies put single actors into simple playing spaces to deliver good stories for audiences th…
Every three years 1000 young dancers from all over the world audition for PARTS, the renowned school for contemporary dance in Brussels, directed by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.…
A Fight Against… (Una Lucha Contra…) marks Chilean playwright Pablo Manzi's English-language debut. Translated by William Gregory, it's a timely look at how violence acts as a catalyst f…
