A Blast from the Past: Les Champignons de Paris by La Compagnie du Caméléon
On June 13, 2022, I spoke with Guillaume Gay, who is operational and artistic director of the...
Read MoreHailing from the UK, Lara Cox is based in France where she works as a teacher of English at university level. Her first book (2018) explored ways in which the Theatre of the Absurd may speak meaningfully to twenty-first century audiences versed in queer and intersectional feminist social justice politics. She is interested in Anglo-French transcultural practices in performance, theatre, and theory, and is in the early stages of developing a book-length project on decolonizing contemporary theatre processes in France, the US, and the UK.
Posted by Lara Cox | 15th Sep 2022 | Interview, Oceania, Producing, Theatre and Decolonization
On June 13, 2022, I spoke with Guillaume Gay, who is operational and artistic director of the...
Read MorePosted by Lara Cox | 23rd May 2022 | Essay, Theatre and Decolonization, Worldwide
Over the years, our contributors have been addressing the topic of decolonization in theatre and...
Read MorePosted by Lara Cox | 16th May 2022 | Adaptation, France, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
What do you do when you are blown away by a show, and yet you know that there is something...
Read MorePosted by Lara Cox | 19th Apr 2022 | France, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics
One of France’s greatest prides is the network of African American artists who, in the...
Read MorePosted by Lara Cox | 15th Dec 2021 | Adaptation, France, Musical Theatre, Review, Translation
A week after Josephine Baker posthumously entered the French Panthéon, a musical about two...
Read MorePosted by Lara Cox | 19th Sep 2021 | France, Review, Theatre and Art
In 2017, the cosmetics company Nivea released an advert that was promptly pulled: a white woman’s...
Read MorePosted by Lara Cox | 30th Jul 2021 | Australia, Avignon 2021, France, Immersive Theatre, Review
One of the highlights of this year’s Avignon Festival was Boxing Shadows, written especially by...
Read MorePosted by Lara Cox | 18th Jun 2021 | France, Review, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Politics
History, as they say, has a habit of repeating itself. When French theatre-makers seized hold of...
Read MoreTo re-open its season after the lifting of COVID-19-related restrictions, Paris’s Théâtre de la...
Read MorePosted by Lara Cox | 29th May 2021 | Ireland, Review, Theatre and Film, Transmedia, United Kingdom
Pale Sister is the latest adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone (c. 441 BC), written by...
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