Electrifying Ensemble Performance and Political Satire in New Māori Play: “Unreel” by Helen Pearse-Otene
The stage explodes with ihi (essential force) and aroha (love, empathy) in Unreel, the new work by...
Read MorePosted by David O'Donnell | 15th Oct 2024 | Education, New Zealand, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
The stage explodes with ihi (essential force) and aroha (love, empathy) in Unreel, the new work by...
Read MorePosted by Wojciech Baluch | 23rd Sep 2024 | Poland, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. For Part II, click here. All the bad ones are...
Read MorePosted by Wojciech Baluch | 23rd Sep 2024 | Poland, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
To read PART I of this interview, go to this link. For Part III, click here. Men –...
Read MorePosted by Wojciech Baluch | 23rd Sep 2024 | Poland, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
It might seem that the indefinitely prolonged Covid epidemic, which contributed to the...
Read MorePosted by Yizhou Zhang | 5th Sep 2024 | Germany, South Africa, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Decolonization
This summer, Berlin’s Volksbühne presented The Visitors, a new work by the choreographer Constanza...
Read MorePosted by Giulia Casalini | 19th Jun 2024 | Austria, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
A view on EXÓTICA, by Amanda Piña / Studio Fortuna Art criticism is a stronghold of Western...
Read MorePosted by Deniz Bașar | 15th May 2024 | Essay, Theatre and Decolonization, Turkey
TiyatroTem (2001-2017) was established by Şehsuvar Aktaş (b. 1964) and Ayşe Selen (1955-2017) in...
Read MorePosted by Sakina Mirichii | 30th Nov 2023 | Essay, Kenya, Theatre and Decolonization
In recent years, there has been a growing movement towards promoting and preserving indigenous...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 20th Nov 2023 | New York, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America
I stopped taking notes about halfway through Brittany K. Allen’s Redwood. I can think of no better...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Oct 2023 | India, London, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Anniversaries are great moments for reassessment. Ten years ago, the Royal Shakespeare Company...
Read MorePosted by Kopano Maroga | 1st Oct 2023 | Dramaturgy, Essay, South Africa, Theatre and Decolonization
South African performance artist, writer and cultural worker Kopano Maroga interrogates the...
Read MorePosted by Kopano Masibi | 29th Sep 2023 | Devised Theatre, Review, South Africa, Theatre and Decolonization
At the University of Pretoria, South Africa’s Student Gallery, I was met with the open space of...
Read MorePosted by The Hindu | 20th Sep 2023 | India, News, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Gender, Worldwide
Mangri Orang, a tea plantation worker, was gunned down by British security personnel in 1921 for...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 26th Jul 2023 | Devised Theatre, Editorial, New York, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America
Fifteen years ago, The Anthropologists came to be in New York City, a group of devisers born of a...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Austin | 25th Jun 2023 | Australia, Festivals, Melbourne, Review, Theatre and Decolonization
Rising has just completed its second run across Melbourne. The newest addition to the city’s...
Read MorePosted by Brian Valente-Quinn | 5th Jun 2023 | Essay, France, Theatre and Decolonization
The stage adaptation of Léonora Miano’s Ce qu’il faut dire (or “What Must be Said”) addresses a...
Read MorePosted by Christine Brubaker, Taiwo Afolabi, Yvette Nolan, Jessica Thornton, and Heather Russek | 28th Apr 2023 | Canada, News, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics
Does it seem far-fetched to imagine a future where the government subsidizes theatres and theatre...
Read MorePosted by Tim Hamilton | 10th Apr 2023 | Chicago, Palestine, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Hummus is not appropriated hipster dip, it’s Palestinian food. So argues Wally, a...
Read MorePosted by Kate Dossett | 1st Feb 2023 | Essay, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
In an age of so-called “cancel culture” it’s important to remember that for much of British...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Jan 2023 | Adaptation, Nigeria, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Earlier in the week, I enjoyed a rainy afternoon at home by watching Inua Ellis’s 2019 adaptation...
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