Theatre After COVID: The 2022 Avignon Theatre Festival in Search for Theatrical Magic and Forms of Philosophical Transgressions – Part II
This is Part 2 of the bipartite report. To read Part 1, click here. Anaïs Nin au Miroir, written...
Read MoreYana Meerzon is an Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. Her research interests are in drama and performance theory, theatre of exile and migration, cultural and interdisciplinary studies. Her book publications include A Path of the Character: Michael Chekhov's Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics, (2005); and Performing Exile – Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film (Palgrave 2012). She has also co-edited several collections, such as Performance, Exile and ‘America’ (with Dr. Silvija Jestrovic) Palgrave, 2009; Adapting Chekhov: The Text and Its Mutations (with Dr. J. Douglas Clayton) Routledge, 2012; History, Memory, Performance (with Dr. David Dean and Dr. Kathryn Prince) Palgrave 2015; Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov, (with Dr. Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu), 2015; and a special issue of Theatre Research in Canada journal on theatre and immigration (Fall 2015). Currently, she is working on a new book project, provisionally entitled On Self and Encounter: Constructing Subjectivity in the Age of Cosmopolitanism.
Posted by Yana Meerzon | 7th Aug 2022 | Avignon 2022, Directing, Festivals, France, Theatre and Politics
This is Part 2 of the bipartite report. To read Part 1, click here. Anaïs Nin au Miroir, written...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 6th Aug 2022 | Avignon 2022, Directing, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Religion
I arrived at the 2022 Avignon Theatre Festival seeking emotional rejuvenation after two years of...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 13th May 2022 | Interview, Management, Russia, Theatre and Politics
This is Part II of the two-part interview. To read Part I, click here. Yana Meerzon: Should we...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 12th May 2022 | Interview, Management, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Russia is my country, who better than me to clean up the ruins of our humanity. – Elena...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 11th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Outwitting the Devil, Akram Khan’s latest work, truly stood out within the line up of very...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 10th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Politics
Mahmoud & Nini is an unusual show –not only it does not look like your typical proscenium...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 8th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Provocation – artistic, political, personal – is the signature style of the Russian theatre...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 6th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, United Kingdom
Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma written by Martin Crimp, translated by Philippe Djian...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 4th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review
Let me tell you a secret- I love the old good comedy, its extensive gestures, inappropriate jokes,...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 31st Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences
What a delight, a relief and a sheer pleasure to sit through Olivier Py’s operetta for children...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 29th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Politics
Moving along with the themes of history, memory and forgetting – the focus of Paul Ricœur’s famous...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 25th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review
Walter Benjamin once said that storytelling is a form of “artisan communication”, a...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 23rd Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Brazil, France, Review, Transcultural Collaborations
Exile, migration, refugee crisis, loss of home and family, and death are among many realities and...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 21st Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Burkina Faso, Devised Theatre, Festivals, France, Review
The focus of this review is inspired by the title and the theme of Salia Sanou’s multidisciplinary...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 20th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Politics
Following the themes of the Avignon 2019, Alexandra Badea’s Points de non-retour [Quais de...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 18th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review
An imaginative, dynamic, and visually striking production Sus d’autres cieux continues the...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 7th Feb 2018 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Dance, Translation
In scholarly debates on contemporary theatre, the question about language has primary importance....
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 9th Jan 2018 | Italy, News
The 16th ceremony of the Europe Theatre Prize and the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities took place...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 6th Jan 2018 | Adaptation, Germany, Review
A Production of the Munich Kammerspiele winner of XIV Europe Prize Theatrical Realities, 2017...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 4th Jan 2018 | Directing, Germany, Israel, Review
Doing It Right! Yael Ronen, an Israeli theatre director working for the Maxim Gorki Theater in...
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