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Last week, I went for the first time to Stoke Newington's Tower Theatre, whose company has since 2018 been putting on a repertory program, which is inclusive and ambitious, on the outer r…
"The Queer Café: Hear Our Voices from the Balkans, the project I've been working on as a dramaturg and translator, with the US playwright, director and activist Joan Lipkin, has been a prec…
No playwright has had greater influence on successive generations of theatre-makers than Samuel Beckett. Yet it is surprising how rarely his work is revived in the big London theatres, of wh…
The actor-director was at the 12th International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFoK) in Thrissur with his play, Told by the Wind. Despite a hectic schedule, Phillip managed to take time out t…
An interview with Petar Miloshevski " A London-based actor, performer, theatre artist. Petar Miloshevski was born in Bitola, Macedonia, educated in Sofia and London, and is professionally ba…
A woman walks into her home. Then does another. And another. Stef Smith's Nora: A Doll's House is not merely an adaptation of Ibsen's 1879 play. It is three adaptations superimposed on one a…
Rebecca Rouse is Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York), media artist and researcher. VR is the latest medium " many claim this. But what exactly can VR do,…
Towards the end of Leopoldstadt, a young writer named Leonard is handed a sheet of paper with his family tree on it. The chart spans four generations and bears the imprint of two dozen lives…
"Fetch me 'ammer." (Edward Bond, Saved) "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." (Bertolt Brecht) A couple of years ago, our family got a new puppy. It …
This interview was made within the framework of the exploratory research project rethinking intermediality in contemporary cinema: changing forms of in-between-ness, PN-IIIIDPCE-2016-0418…
The last time I took my non-theatre-going husband to the Royal Court was in the autumn of 2013, when I was heavily pregnant with our first child, to see Kate Tempest's Brand New Ancients. Th…
Daddies of Sugar with its catchy and somewhat risqué title is Jefferson Tshabalala better known in theatre circles as 'J'. Bobs Tshabalala's latest theatrical offering which pokes fun at sh…
It seems that the classic Broadway musical West Side Story may be getting not one but two film remakes this year. Or rather, one film remake by Steven Spielberg later in the year and one …
Total surveillance: this is the idea that every moment of our waking existence can be spied upon by the state, or by some foreign country. It's a paranoid notion based on the huge growth of …
Your sweet tooth can get you into trouble. Lots of trouble. In this revival of Lucy Prebble's provocative debut, first staged at the Royal Court in 2003, the metaphor of sugar, and of the po…
Mika Johnson is an artist with a background in theatre, but also a film director. Besides this, he makes music and works as a photographer. He is the director of VRwandlung, a producti…
Review: Bran Nue Dae, by Jimmy Chi and Kuckles and directed by Andrew Ross for Sydney Festival. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of decea…
When the stage floods with pink smoke at the end of the show, you question if you're supposed to get lost in it. The division between actor/ spectator becomes less defined. Should we…
There's no way Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski could possibly have predicted that the impeachment trial would coincide with the Pittsburgh Public Theater run of Little Shop of Horrors. …
Haruki Murakami is probably Japan's best-known living writer " a worldwide bestseller with novels translated into at least 50 languages. Yet, despite that, dramatizations of the 71-year-old …
Matthew Ribnick is not your average actor and his performance in the highly acclaimed Hoot is testament to his supreme acting talent which has been honed over a number of years. As is the no…
A series of questions filled my mind. What was the motivation behind the choice of sets and costumes? In my opinion, the only thing that really worked well set wise was the ever-pres…
Any interview with Mbuso Khoza is both a wide-ranging history lesson and a remarkable exploration of a myriad of pertinent societal issues which occupy his mind daily " from sharing his thou…
Could diabolical interference be the only way for a woman in 17th-century London to advance in life without being bound to a man? For Joanna Faustus, the answer is in the affirmative. So she…
Tonight, I discovered the gasp index. Or maybe just re-discovered. The what? The gasp index. It's when you see a show that keeps making you exhale, sometimes audibly, sometimes quietly. Like…
