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Wojtek Markowski is the producer of the Polish experimental lab Dream Adoption Society. Together with the director of the company, Krzysztof Garbaczewski, and other team members they create …
Herrin Made was a play written and performed in the United States' deeply rural area of Southern Illinois, a region composed of small towns such as Carbondale, Carterville, and Herrin. It wa…
Because of COVID-19, Italian singers can only continue to work online by using live streaming. The absence of direct contact with the audience has the ability to transform silence into an in…
In times of crisis, we see just how closely reality and fiction really are. What seemed like a world dominated by a single scenario of endless growth and movement, turns out to be capable of…
Virginia Woolf's reputation has closely followed British cultural trends: in the interwar years she was a beacon of modernism, austere and difficult; by the 1970s a feminist icon; in the 199…
Responses to the spread of the COVID-19 virus have varied widely from country to country and are changing from one day to the next. So, while Broadway shows in New York have shut down for at…
The name 'Rashida Namulondo' will easily roll off any random tongue in the performing arts community in Uganda. She is an actress, a poet, and the director of The Sophie Muwanika Institute, …
Georg Hobmeier is an artist and narrative game designer who is working in several fields: game design, theatre, but he is also organizing other game-related events as well. Hobmeier was one …
Originally a street play, Sheher-e-Naqab was put together by Pune-based group Swatantra Theatre. The scene opens with a man wearing a mask reading news related to Coronavirus in a newspaper…
From play-readings and performances on Facebook live to apps that access playscripts, the online space is giving theatre lovers in the city the much-needed antidote to these grim days. Who w…
One unexpected casualty of these beleaguered times is a relatively young arts organization that had only recently celebrated its eighth anniversary on February 29 (and because that's leap ye…
There's a colloquialism within the theatre community that 'you know lighting design is good when you don't notice it.' While the validity of that statement remains debatable, the future of t…
Both Schumann and Beethoven are masters at the form particularly in their use of text painting, which is the practice of further emphasizing the emotional state of the character through harm…
Paradise Blue is perhaps the more famous in the trilogy of plays called The Detroit Project written by award-winning African American playwright Dominique Morisseau. The other two being Detr…
It's an ordinary Saturday morning. The October sun is already hitting hard, I am sweating. I am in Lilongwe the capital city of Malawi, specifically at the Lilongwe Community Centre hall; an…
Being close to others is intrinsically associated with theatre. In Shakespeare's London, theatre gatherings were condemned by the Puritans as evil. They thought the plague spread by theatre …
Rose Mbowa is an indubitable doyenne in Uganda's theatre. At Makerere University, an ivy league of sorts on the continent, where Mbowa spent most of her life, her name is often invoked in le…
In late March, as Spain experienced the effects of Coronavirus lockdown, publishing house uÑa RoTa asked their authors"novelists, dramatists, poets, essayists"to film a video to post on …
Song of the Goat Theatre was founded in 1996 by Grzegorz Bral and Anna Zubrzycki, and is now led by the former, in WrocÅ‚aw, Poland. The cosmopolitan nature of the physically and vocally-…
Some years ago, I traveled to Israel for a conference on dramaturgy. Losing my way at the train station, I was rescued by a soldier who chatted with me all the way to Tel Aviv. I dreaded wha…
IOTF: THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL ONLINE THEATRE FESTIVAL "In a world where you can be anything . . ." April 15th"May 15th, 2020 IOTF is an annual online theatre festival, showcasing the work o…
My Stay Is Almost Done and I Don't Belong to Anyone is the story of a desperate search for love and passion. The play's protagonists go on a quest for le grand amour, or that failing, its su…
Armchair theatre-lovers rejoice. During the lockdown, the National Theatre is streaming a selection of its past hits for free for one week at a time. These shows, originally filmed as part o…
It's been a strange few weeks. Despite the unprecedented scope of this cultural wound, I write to my city from a place of optimism " from an internal ache for community and togetherness. I w…
Donald Howarth, who has died in London aged 88, was one of the celebrated generation of playwrights whose work was first shown at London's Royal Court Theatre in the 1950s. He enjoyed nation…
