The theatre community in Iceland is most active during the cold winter months but Winter 2020 presented many challenges. Iceland’s thriving cultural and theatre scene was heavily affected by t […]
2020 would decidedly be a year unlike any other. Long before the first mention of the novel coronavirus, the theme of this year’s Avignon Festival was—almost prophetically—Eros and Thana […]
Just before the Covid 19 pandemic, the biggest cultural event of the season (even more – of the entire decade) in Serbia was The Cleaner, a retrospective exhibition by Marina Abramović. The […]
Frankfurt, though the birthplace of Goethe, and the home of the Theater am Turm, which during the 1960s was among the leading experimental theatres in Germany, does not have much of a […]
Ever since the coronavirus pandemic began and global physical distancing measures were introduced, many have been wondering about the consequences for theatre and the performing arts in […]
Claudio Longhi has been appointed Director of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Thus opens a third phase for the famous theatre, after months punctuated by exhausting controversies and political […]
You may assume I mean back to the time before the pandemic. No. Back just few months ago – to the first part of September 2020, when the Pilsen International Theatre Festival took place. N […]
Following the critical and commercial success of Simon Stone’s remarkable reworking of Yerma (2016) with Billie Piper in the eponymous lead role, the Young Vic, in Kwame Kwei-Armah […]
The 2020/2021 Season of ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro opened with the world premiere of Il peso del mondo nelle cose (The Weight of the World in Things), a new production by Claudio Longhi […]
Theatre is a lively art co-created by a group of people –audience and performers- gathering in a certain place and time. The components of this definition were interrupted in the pandemic. B […]
Lenin El Ramly did not engage with the theatre community’s debates about forms of stage writing, origins of Egyptian theatre, theories, festivals, or even a […]
Fatima Gallaire (née Bourega) was a remarkable woman of letters who has left a prolific body of work: short stories, screenplays, documentaries, novels for adults and children, poems, […]
Despite a robust array of scholarship on Palestine, very little published material exists on Palestinian theatre. Gabriel Varghese addresses this matter in his first book Palestinian […]
In the weighty book under the title Le théâtre marocain a l’épreuve du texte étranger, Omar Fertat, writer and lecturer at the University of Bordeaux presents a palimpsestuous reading revis […]
There is a saying in many cultures that when it rains it pours, but we also cannot get enough of a good thing. I am referring here to a new book of Arab American plays. The publication of […]