Rome, 9th February 2020. "Can I get some paper? Some cream-colored paper? And a pen?" It is an autumn evening of 1982 in Trieste; the company performing StanisÅ‚aw Przybyszewska's L'affar…
Because of COVID-19, Italian actors' work had abruptly stopped but digital resources offer them "new" possibilities of maintaining live contact with their audiences. Some important artists h…
Seven bodies, moving in silence, form a slowly transitioning human landscape. The change in their shapes is almost imperceptible, like seven individual rocks that the sea gradually transform…
During the lockdown, the best online theatre, more or less, are shows that are specially created for this digital format. Much better than dull records of dramas that might have worked well …
Health and government officials around the globe are slowly and ever-so-tentatively moving to relax lockdowns due to coronavirus. In Canada, where the possibility of health-care collapse see…
 The global pandemic of coronavirus infection has stopped theatrical activity around the world. Although no quarantine measures have been officially introduced in the Republic of Belarus…
When Zimbabwean theatre practitioner Stephen Joel Chifunyise passed on last year, Theatre in The Park, the organizers of the Harare International Theater Festival saw it befitting to rename …
What is the role today of one of the pivotal narratives of Western culture, William Shakespeare's Hamlet? Does it really serve the functions it has been claimed to serve, providing a narrati…
Over the past couple of months, theatre reviewing has become film reviewing, and venues all over the country have struggled to make material available for watching online. The biggest instit…
Writing this note when half the world is deprived of many of its too easily taken-for-granted privileges, I am conscious more than ever of the huge role played by the arts, including literat…
The Opening dialogue of the Between.PomiÄ™dzy Festival. 5 May 2020. Octavian Saiu: I'd like to say welcome, everybody, before anything else. My name is Octavian Saiu and I teach theatr…
There are more and more calls for help, appeals for solidarity when it comes to the most vulnerable groups for the occasions caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Among them are artists whose …
Eva Doumbia is a writer, director and actress. Her creative residence in New Orleans for the development of "Authophagies" was postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis, as well as the premier…
As a response to the damage the Covid-19 pandemic has caused in the theatre world, the Dramaturgs' Network (a volunteer arts organization, based in the UK) has launched a new project: Invisi…
So far, it could be said that the National Theatre is having a good lockdown. Every week, this flagship streams one of its stock of NT Live films, which are always a welcome reminder of the …
It all starts innocently enough. Two actors (Damian Sosnowski and Alan Al-Murtatha) and an actress (Natalia Bielecka) take the stage. They are dressed in loose, everyday, dark-coloured cloth…
The Covid-19 Emergency has been and still is a challenge for theatre companies, institutions, and artists that had radically to re-think their own practice in terms of social distancing and …
IOTF PS + 11: EXTENDED May 16"31, 2020 IOTF is an annual online theatre festival showcasing the work of diverse global artists. IOTF PS + 11: EXTENDED offers a two-week extension to this yea…
BLIXT Locally Grown was born on "a car ride between Scottsbluff and Lincoln," Becky Boesen recalls, "after teaching a workshop, with big open skies above us." BLIXT's co-founder, Petra Wahlq…
Written by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy of the United States. Interview Conducted by Nicole Birmann Bloom (Program Officer, Performing Arts, French Cultural Services). Transla…
David Malcolm has been one of the key organizers of the Between. PomiÄ™dzy festival ever since it was created in 2010. In this essay, he presents his recollections concerning various even…
This article is part of the Dramaturgs' Network Invisible Diaries series. Woke up today to packed bags laid out on the living room carpet. My four-year-old is going on holiday. To her …
During an art and culture online ubiquity that was expanded in the course of the global pandemic, the International Online Theatre Festival (IOTF) launched its 2nd edition on the 15th of Apr…
Unusual times need unusual solutions. We certainly live in times that are challenging, but they also provide an opportunity to do things differently. The Between-PomiÄ™dzy Festival of Lit…
While theatres remain closed, the way we watch Shakespeare is changing. When I picture the audiences Shakespeare would have written for, I think of the groundlings in Shakespeare in Love(…