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Interview with Sandra Gribovska Ilievska, theatre actress, Bitola, R. Macedonia Sandra Gribovska Ilievska (Bitola, 1992) is a Macedonian actress and a member of the National Theater Bitola s…
The International Shakespeare Festival in GdaÅ„sk is not the festival of masterpieces and it never has been its aim. However, if you are looking for interesting, innovative and updated vo…
At German theatres, some assistant directors are employed for the duration of a production, from first rehearsals to opening night, or until the last performance. In any one season, such ass…
An Interview with Mr. Guy Coolen, art director, producer, manager, Antwerp, Belgium/Rotterdam, Netherlands. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar.  Guy Coolen (1966) is one of Europe's…
An Interview with Ana Ristoska Trpenoska, a playwright, dramaturg, Vienna/Skopje, Austria/R.N. Macedonia. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar.  Ana Ristoska Trpenoska (1984, Skopje) …
In a world where the rule is to make huge efforts to attain an "effortless, relaxed" look, the new show at the recently renovated Delacorte Theatre in Central Park " Twelfth Night " is a tru…
An Interview with wonderful talented actresses Jovana Miladinova, Skopje, R.N. Macedonia. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar  Jovana Mialdinova is born in Skopje. She is third year stu…
This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe was as sprawling and invigorating as ever, and expectedly sharp in some of its preoccupations: questions of identity, memory, political urgency, and the…
Writer-actor Alan Bissett's When Billy met Alasdair imagines what happened when Alasdair Gray (1934-2019 ) and Billy Connolly (1942-) met in 1981 at a book launch of Lanark, Gray's celebrate…
Interview with theatre director Tamara Stojanoska, Skopje/Prilep, R.N. Macedonia. Interviewer Ivanka Apostolova Baskar  Tamara Stojanoska (theatre director) was born year 1997, in Pri…
We are an avant-garde theatre group, and after our successful performance of The History Boys by Alan Bennett in 2017, we turned to a wild and daring experiment: a production based on Dostoe…
For the last thirty years of my attendance, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has always been too big to grasp in its entirety. In 2025, with a record 4,000 registered shows, the challenge is no…
In 1997, an association was founded in the German city of Verden on the river Aller, located between Bremen and Hannover in Lower Saxony, to arrange large-scale theatre productions, in the f…
Emma Frankland's No Apologies achieves something genuinely rare: a radical reimagining that feels both vital and sumptuous. Her premise echoing as a refrain throughout the piece" "Kurt Cobai…
Anemone Valcke and Verona Verbakel's The Ego emerges from Ontroerend Goed's theatrical lineage with characteristic Belgian fearlessness and appetite for (self-)reflection. What begins as an …
What is the purpose of performing arts when the stakes are literally life and death? Pussy Riot's Riot Days confronts this question with unflinching directness, transforming the concert h…
The Belgian Company Ontroerend Goed have been coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for so long that I can no longer imagine how their work would seem to someone on first encounter anymore. Not tha…
Over the summer months, all of the publicly funded state and municipal theatres, as well as Landesbühnen and some privately owned theatres have an institutional holiday season of six to eig…
Emma Howlett's Aether arrives with impressive academic credentials"consultations with Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Stanford universities lending gravitas to TheatreGoose's latest offeri…
What does it take to get you up on your feet and into the groove? Whatever your disposition, Little Bulb's Listen Dance delivers a "raucous evening of social dance and live music" with absol…
Oli Mathiesen's dance piece The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave has been described by this young MÄori choreographer as an "acid house remix that screams f**k you to the pandemic." With …
Slowly, very slowly, the audience begins to arrive. Taking their seats, shedding jackets, arranging bags and glancing at programmes. But already, there's a stir: the imposing figure of actor…
At the Edinburgh Fringe, the solo show, A Poem and a Mistake, is playing for the entire month of August at the iconic Assembly Rooms. I was curious to see how contemporary American playwrigh…
Works and Days the latest production of the FC Bergman collective, played at the Lyceum Theatre as part of The Edinburgh International Festival from 7 to 10 August. The show includes stunnin…
Out of the many venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Summerhall Arts is one that shines for its programme of innovative theatre, cabaret, dance or music. In 2019 the Bristol-based compan…
