The artistic statement is an assignment rarely found in course syllabi. However, apart from representing a common genre for artists, it holds an enormous value even for students starting their artistic path as it […]
This brief biographical piece is often requested by the production team at the last minute for a show’s printed program. Thus, it is good practice for an artist to have it readily available and update it regularly […]
This is usually the very first item required at auditions and serves here as a first, basic tool for the instructor to obtain important information, e.g. regarding medical conditions that might impact the actor’s […]
The book completes and updates certain aspects of Thaiss and Davis (not repeated here), but also adds more extensive examples of a writer’s thought process, suggestions for improving the examples given, along with […]
The book is organized in 8 chapters, some of which are more specifically about theatre writing (here summarized in more detail), while others are geared toward the writing process per se. Still useful as an […]
These theatre festivals, to their advantage, offered an abundance of interpretations, points of view, narrations, and contradictions. It seems both festivals were dedicated to “Solidarity,” which was the theme for […]
Before the performance begins, the actors playing major characters enjoy informal pre-party conversations and drinks standing at the front of the stage or sitting there in a sofa and armchairs. On a small table […]
In November 2013 Wojciech Krukowski still walked among New York crowds at Times Square when the members of Akademia Ruchu (Academy of Movement) were performing their action as a part of the Performa 13 project. […]
Particular homage was given in this year’s Berlin theatre festival to the work of the leading director Dimiter Gotscheff, who died this spring. His final production, and among his most impressive, of Heiner […]
During the last ten years, the Finnish theatre world has been in the middle of numerous structural and artistic changes. Some trends and characteristic features are fairly clear, but it is still difficult to […]
Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic, has been quite overshadowed culturally by Prague, but it nevertheless has a rich cultural life of its own and a thriving varied theatre scene, which I had the […]
31 July 2013 was the hottest day ever in Munich! At Bayreuth—where some Perfect Wagnerites still wear tuxes—the argument against air-conditioning is that its […]
Who knew that Mozart’s Magic Flute was really about three giant giraffe-like hounds’ heads thrusting into the skies over the Bregenz Festival’s great lake-stage on […]
Onzième is a production by the Théâtre du Radeau, directed by François Tanguy. The production was first presented in November 2011; it was presented in many cities in France during 2012, and in Chambery from the […]