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Krystian Lupa, special guest of the Paris Fall Theatre Festival 2016, presented during November and December outstanding productions of Thomas Bernhard, his favorite author: Wycinka Holzfällen (Des arbres à a […]

Guerrilla by El Conde de Torrefiel

2016 Dublin Theatre Festival

As a theatrical experience, Guerrilla is deliberately enigmatic. I enter the theatre to find part of the audience seem to be taking their […]

Eastern Europe, 2017. Problems regarding the migration of the workforce have existed here for more than 20 years now and the global society has transformed them into some sort of octopus, with many long and […]

Volodymyr Kuchynskyi is the artistic director of the Les Kurbas Theatre in L’viv, Ukraine. Kuchynskyi founded the theatre in 1988 with a small circle of colleagues on the site of the former Lvivskyi Molodizhnyi T […]

Albert Camus’ Caligula is suddenly very topical. As a U.S. resident, I wake up every morning to a world governed by the 3 a.m. tweets of our Commander in Chief. He instates in the White House family members for wh […]

What does it mean to be a stranger or how does someone become a stranger? Is a stranger always a sign of something dangerous? Can we speak about the strageness of our own self? These are the questions that were […]

La llamada (The Call), written and directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, and Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour—an adaptation of Alan Warner’s 1998 novel The Sopranos by the National Theatre of Scot […]

Last fall I spent mid-October till mid-November in Berlin, a city that has been reconfiguring itself ever since the Berlin Wall fell so spectacularly on November 9, 1989. Born and raised in post-war West Germany, […]

Since 1980, La Cubana has been offering theatrical happenings that disrupt the fabric of the everyday. Whether intruding on market trading conventions in Cubana Delikatessen (1983) or breaking the cinematic frame […]

A Conversation with Petar Kaukov, the Bulgarian director of Avenue Q, at The Central Puppet Theatre, Sofia
The musical has never been a popular stage form in Bulgaria and the few shows of the genre that have […]

I attended this performance the day following BREXIT, which resulted in the United Kingdom from a nationwide vote (England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Gibraltar) taken on 23 June 2016, found […]

The Southern Romanian city of Craiova is a survivor. It defied the social invasion that is industrialization, healed its wounds caused by the massive earthquake of 1977 and strangely, at a later moment, also freed […]

Founder and longtime artistic director of Kraków’s Teatr KTO, Jerzy Zoń, traces his choice of a life in theatre to a moment when—still a student—he sat in the audience, weeping, during the 1975 premiere perfo […]

The 70th Avignon Festival (6–24 July) was an especially memorable celebration of the best in innovative international performing arts and dance. From Ivo van Hove’s Les Damnés to Krystian Lupa’s Place des hé […]

The production Antoine et Cléopâtre by Thiago Rodrigues and his company Mundo Perfeito was created in 2015, and was presented (in Portuguese) at the Avignon Festival. It was again presented, but in French, at t […]

Given the very large number of active theatres in Germany, their extensive repertoire, and their strong interest in the classic Western theatre in general and Shakespeare in particular, it is doubtless safe to say […]

Viesturs Meikšāns (b. 1980) is one of the most interesting phenomena in Latvian theatre. He cannot be called an emerging director anymore, since his first decade in this profession is coming to an end; however, h […]

The latest of Shakespeare’s plays to be staged at the Croatian National Theatre (CNT) in Osijek is The Merchant of Venice. Painfully contemporary in its theme and character motivation and at the same time humorous […]

Flemish playwright Tom Lanoye has experience “overwriting” Shakespeare’s plays among other reworkings of classic works, first with a twelve-hour verse adaptation of eight of Shakespeare’s history plays entitled […]