https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/tculbert/activity/ Activity feed for Taylor Claire Culbert. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 5928605b2b4f4aabb7a868bb9f51794f https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/798208/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 22:46:45 -0400 8a900877e4197b9d509aff230b3d8893 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/798207/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 22:46:13 -0400 eb6b90767d51ae9637f3f72d32ef3354 https://europeanstages.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3504 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 04:22:01 -0400 The most recent premiere of the Theatre of the Eighth Day from Poznań, Poland, Paragraph 196 (Exercises in Terror) is strongly involved in a specific political context: in 2015, the right-wing party Law and […]

]]> 9c27b9ccbd0ecc1e6b3fc63179bd7abe https://europeanstages.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3634 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:51:15 -0400 We regret to announce the passing of two dedicated theatre-goers and reviewers, both of whom have been major long-time contributors to this journal and to its predecessor, Western European Stages.  Glen Loney has […]

]]> 329df4e4a25c2b73acf04d65f08a8cc9 https://europeanstages.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3547 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:50:46 -0400 Theatre schools came to the city of Brno for the twenty-eighth time to showcase their work. The slogan or theme for 2018 was “losing ground,” an appropriately, allotted foreground to absurd shows. Or, to sim […]

]]> 083b2e2bccf284e1dbe8b572b66ff78f https://europeanstages.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3533 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:50:19 -0400 Although documentary theatre had not been fully absent from Hungarian stages before 2007, it was only in that year that a definitive trend of this genre started to take shape. It was then that the prestigious […]

]]> 627aa4f58f9e541f2947b38be2ba0b44 https://europeanstages.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3543 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:48:53 -0400 In the Summer of 2017 as a result of coproduction between Berlin, Poznań, and Warsaw, the Gorki Theater in Berlin presented three notable Polish performances: Hymn to Love by Marta Górnicka, Klątwa by Sta […]

]]> ec53656cf9c3efb0fedc459fb990af6f https://europeanstages.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3647 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:48:23 -0400 Berlin’s 2018 Theatertreffen featured a strong lineup of both classical as well as new theatrical works that commented on world politics, social mores, gender, and the way we deal with the past. This season’s fes […]

]]> c6c50b9f9382d293ed76310465281bed https://europeanstages.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3495 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:47:44 -0400 Christoph Marthaler has made his career devising theatre pieces that amalgamate text, music, and movement to do heavy philosophical lifting with a wicked sense of humor. Through these he has succeeded in creating […]

]]> 8ce58f29ebb81a9eba3b578d3a648bd5 https://europeanstages.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3488 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:47:12 -0400 Eirik Stubø is a Norwegian theatre director awarded for his Wild Duck production shown in New York in 2006. He is currently working for Sweden’s national theatre, The Royal Dramatic Theatre, as an artistic and ma […]

]]> 7843e7439cae8b2267ad3263bb3f948b https://europeanstages.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3526 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:46:12 -0400 During recent years, theatre in Turkey has been generally prosperous. Spectators can find various trends, theatrical forms, and new dramaturgical and narrative techniques during a season, especially if they attend […]

]]> 9774c24a123ba41e0b7e53db13c92c9c https://europeanstages.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3486 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:06:10 -0400 I first heard of Motus in 2000 or 2001 when Hanon Reznikov, Judith Malina, and I drove down the Apennine hills from our residency in Rocchetta Ligure (1999 – 2004) to see a new avant-garde group named Motus p […]

]]> 03a29131bcb9f531c5f264e1042962c8 https://europeanstages.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=3513 Sat, 02 Jun 2018 17:24:19 -0400 Report from Vienna of 2017, the Austrian Minister of Culture made a long-awaited and much approved announcement, the appointment of Martin Kušej as the new director of Austria’s most important venue, the Bu […]

]]> 887f803312add10e796e86e40711b91b http://europeanstages.org/?p=3274 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 23:34:07 -0400 There is a new tendency in Hungarian theatre for reinterpreting the notion of psychological realism and, at the same time, offering a new perspective on the good old topic of bourgeois drama: “family”. There is n […]

]]> 5e8a4056b4373f24af72b49fcff00576 http://europeanstages.org/?p=3251 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 23:30:01 -0400 Heddadagene is a brand-new theatre festival in Oslo where twenty-nine theatres joined together to present a new theatre experience from all over Norway, during June of 2017. Thanks to the festival director Åslaug […]

]]> 45a89cf7ac8a8cce80601bc402a1b1c2 http://europeanstages.org/?p=3249 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 21:56:14 -0400 Swiss-speaking Germany is sometimes overlooked in considerations of the contemporary Germany stage, but the frequent appearance of Swiss productions in the annual Berlin Theatertreffen is evidence of the […]

]]> a41369e930ba07283199c5d89612869c http://europeanstages.org/?p=3295 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 21:24:20 -0400 The Russian-language press thoroughly covered Oedipus Rex by Rimas Tuminas after it opened in the ancient Greek city of Epidaurus (29 July 2016), and after its Russian premiere at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow […]

]]> 3534058e294d246e8bef57806f978817 http://europeanstages.org/?p=3181 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:12:50 -0400 The following reports back on the 2015 edition of the Reims Scènes d’Europe (literally: Reims Stages Europe) theatre festival, which has grown to become a leading counterpoint to the more established summer ga […]

]]> 6eec7e794a3e2b0f28976c46745c1f9d http://europeanstages.org/?p=3204 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:12:18 -0400 Berlin is feeling more and more like Avignon or Edinburgh. The Theatertreffen, the major theater festival for the German-speaking world, is structured around inviting the ten “most noteworthy” productions of the […]

]]> c707ee5095370bc8ab7eb2dc8c76eb3b http://europeanstages.org/?p=3253 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:11:14 -0400 It’s a crisp, remarkably rainless evening for the beginning of September at The Globe Theatre in London, as the audience wiggles and shifts in anticipation of Matthew Dunster’s reimagining of Much Ado About Not […]

]]> 11bbe32ac816afd3cbceb5a7b61cce46 http://europeanstages.org/?p=3171 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:10:29 -0400 Almagro is Spain’s largest and oldest classical theatre festival, bringing fifty-two productions to this small, picturesque town in Castilla la Mancha for its 40th edition. Five productions from Spain’s Com […]

]]> dda81e0a4a22abf03f2714b0e1ffb085 http://europeanstages.org/?p=3194 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:09:39 -0400 Sibiu, where the third biggest international theatre festival in Europe takes place, is a city with approximately 150,000 citizens and constant cultural life, blossoming in the heart of Transylvania, Romania. The […]

]]> 148968f9fe00d980a52fb07b8fa058c1 http://europeanstages.org/?p=3143 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:08:54 -0400 Ophelia is in her room, sewing. Enter Hamlet. He takes her “by the wrist” and holds her “hard.” Really hard. Clearly it hurts. He shakes her. Then he extends his arm, leaning back to look, and “falls to such peru […]

]]> 0503bb662d4fc6722c2824834876a275 http://europeanstages.org/?p=3150 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:03:31 -0400 The B*easts (2017) is a play about the consequences that ripple through and reshape the life of the eight-year-old Lila and her mother, Karen, when Lila gets breast implants. In erasing one letter, and replacing […]

]]> ccf8e75a9f3d7e819789cd940c087aaa http://europeanstages.org/?p=3222 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:55:42 -0400 “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.” One of the most quoted of Chekhov’s statements seems to contradict the habit of the organizers to include in cultural programs those familiar […]

]]> 7710adfdad5059042c26be1a83eb9ae8 http://europeanstages.org/?p=3159 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:53:38 -0400 There has been something in Madrid’s theatre that has seen a return to the spirit of the Greeks: plays inspired by or adapted from classical tragedies that ask fundamental questions about what democracy means a […]

]]> 19bdcd477a311fa5a860e04562e8a575 http://europeanstages.org/?p=3255 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:52:05 -0400 The Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2017, directed and curated by Christophe Slagmuylder, is an outstanding transdisciplinary arts festival, showcasing many new creations, often produced by the festival itself. Those […]

]]> 9c68d5063385ecc93bcd001d32d88f7f http://europeanstages.org/?p=3302 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 19:48:31 -0400 Among the wide range of diverse offerings that I attended at this year’s Avignon festival, I was struck by a recurring theme, the theme of exile and its devastating effects on characters torn from home and f […]

]]> 743668f6365ac0770e3f0d1e5dff50e1 http://europeanstages.org/?p=3281 Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:06:10 -0400 The Trafó House of Contemporary Arts is one of the leading producers of experimental theatre work in Budapest. In May of 2017 it offered an unusual piece of documentary theatre, Long Live Regina!. The performers […]

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