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    European Stages

    By Steve Earnest

    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 […]

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    European Stages

    By Tony Haouam

    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 […]

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    European Stages

    By Ksenija Radulović

    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 […]

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    European Stages

    By Marvin Carlson

    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 […]

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    European Stages

    By Ivan Medenica

    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 […]

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    European Stages

    By Daniele Vianello

    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 […]

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    European Stages

    By Kalina Stefanova

    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 […]

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    European Stages

    By María Bastianes

    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 […]

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    European Stages

    By Daniele Vianello

    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 […]

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    European Stages

    By Eylem Ejder

    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 […]

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    Arab Stages

    By Girgis Shoukry

    Translated by Dalia Basiouny

    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 […]

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    Arab Stages

    By Laura Chakravarty Box

    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, […]

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    Arab Stages

    By Ashley Marinaccio

    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 […]

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    Arab Stages

    By Khalid Amine

    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 […]

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    Arab Stages

    By Areeg Ibrahim

    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 […]

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    Philip Wiles became a registered member