Trauma In Translation: Stratford’s Milestone Salesman In China
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How Indonesian Young Creative Workers in Yogyakarta Stay Productive Amid the Pandemic
Danastri Rizqi Nabilah, a filmmaker from Yogyakarta – a city in Indonesia known for its education...
New Buds on a Fertile Island: New Play Development in Taiwan, Part 1
New writing stretches the boundaries of theatre arts. Though writing may seem a solitary...
Cambodia is an Inspiration for the Healing Power of Art After a Crisis
Even though history has seen different disasters and humanitarian crises, one fact remains: we try...
Meet ONG Keng Sen, the Artistic Director of Singapore’s T:>Works and Keynote Speaker at the 2024 Singapore Literature Festival in NYC
The 6th biennial Singapore Literature Festival is held in New York City on October 19 and 20,...
Avignon: Symphonies of Pain Part 4 – Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s “Saigon”
In Saigon, Caroline Guiela Nguyen has created a four-hour theatrical tale based on the history of...
How Padmavati Rao Embraces Life Through Theatre And Activism
Multifaceted in the true sense, Padmavati Rao approaches every character with humility and...
Karna is Not Black or White but a Mortal: Interview with Bangladeshi director Jayita Mahahlanobish
Showing Kunti’s first born in a different light, young Bangladeshi director Jayita Mahahlanobish...
“Tattooer” At Atelier Shunpusha: “Tattooer” Reworks Tanizaki’s Japanese Tale Of Desire And Power With Subtlety And Verve
Tattooer is a playful yet critical adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s (1886-1965) debut short...
Wajdi Mouawad’s “Littoral”: Searching for Peace Through the Devastation of War
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (artistic director, Sun-Woong Koh) staged the play Littoral...
Pari Saberi: A Pioneering Woman In Iranian Theatre Passes Away At 92
Pari Saberi, an influential Iranian playwright, director, novelist, translator, and actress, was...
The Independent Theatres of Yerevan and the Search for New Theatrical Forms
The development of independent theatres in Yerevan has become an important topic for discussion as...
Julia Pascal’s 12:37 at the Finborough Theatre: epic story of Jewish identity from Dublin to Jerusalem
Julia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of being controversial. Her interest...
Interview with Ayham Majid Agha: On Shifting From Interactive Theater at Home into Creating a New Performing Form in Exile
Ayham Majid Agha is a Syrian actor, dramaturge, and director. After studying theater arts at...
Shakespeare In Iraq: An Interview With Dr. Samir Talib
Dr. Samir Talib is an Iraqi scholar specializing in Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. He earned...
Egypt Joins Jordan’s Open-Space Theatre Festival
Egypt is represented by one play and a jury member at the second edition of Jordan’s...
Exploring Palestinian Allyship in “Decolonizing Sarah”
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Saudi Universities to Open Art, Theatre, Film Departments for First Time in History
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Culture, Badr bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al Saud,...
Impact of COVID-19 on Creative Industries Among Core Topics of Culture Summit Abu Dhabi
Held under the theme “The Cultural Economy and the Economy of Culture” the Culture...
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Shakespeare In Iraq: An Interview With Dr. Samir Talib
Dr. Samir Talib is an Iraqi scholar specializing in Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. He earned...
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“Ghosts of My House” In İstanbul: A Contemporary Canadian Play Out Of Context Or Domesticating Whiteness
It is the 24th of September 2024 in İstanbul, and I’m finding my way through the curvy streets of...
Read More“Tattooer” At Atelier Shunpusha: “Tattooer” Reworks Tanizaki’s Japanese Tale Of Desire And Power With Subtlety And Verve
Tattooer is a playful yet critical adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s (1886-1965) debut short...
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Report From The Underground: A New Iranian Theatre
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Representation Of Women In Iraqi Theatre: An Interview With Playwright And Director Dr. Awatif Naeem
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Contemporary Transnationalism Theatre in China: Theatre Review of “Apple Tree” directed by Feng Lu
In 2024, National Theatre of China in Beijing showcased an experimental avant-garde theatre work “Apple Tree” to talk about the tension in the contemporary marriage between a young Chinese couple. Their tension in the marriage was reflected when the wife is suffering from the unexpected miscarriage.The play is such a transnational one. The director Feng was educated in France when he was young, with established exposure to the French film and theatre. In this play and his previous productions, there are huge amount of Roland’s style of using montage and space changing.
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Adapting Lu Xun for the Contemporary Stage: A Production by China’s Central Academy of Drama at the Edinburgh Fringe Arts Festival: “ZhuJian (Forging the Swords)”
Adapted from Lu Xun’s novel, the play takes the same name, “Zhu Jian” (Forging the Swords), and has become one of the most popular productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024. The work was brought to Edinburgh by a group of student actors from the Central Academy of Drama in China. Director Fengrui Yang is currently pursuing his doctoral training at the Academy. The play is notable for its re-examination of the theme of vengeance, a central idea in Lu Xun’s novel. Lu Xun is one of the most influential authors in modern China featured with his social criticism writing style in the 1920s.
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Intercultural Chinese Dance Artist in the UK: Interview with Joanna Hangyu Zhou
UK-China Performing Arts (UKCPA), one of the UK’s most prominent Chinese performing arts organizations, plays a crucial role in bridging Chinese and British performing arts cultures. Joanna Hangyu Zhou, the founder of UKCPA and a former national-level dancer with a permanent position at China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater, has emerged as a leading international dance artist in the UK. Following her graduation with a master’s degree from the University of Roehampton in 2016, where she specialized in dance studies, Joanna embarked on a journey of exploring innovations in intercultural Chinese and British performing arts through artistic practice and education.
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Jordan Cheng: The Genial Striver Of Hong Kong Musical Theatre
Is Jordan Cheng for real? The 37-year-old actor, singer, and composer is everywhere these days....
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Miss Julie: Amy Ng Brings A “Problem Play” To Hong Kong
Amy Ng has a problem. The Hong Kong-raised, London-based playwright is holed up in a Causeway Bay...
Read MoreNew Buds on a Fertile Island: New Play Development in Taiwan, Part 1
New writing stretches the boundaries of theatre arts. Though writing may seem a solitary...
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New Buds on a Fertile Island: New Play Development in Taiwan, Part 2
To read PART I of this essay, go to this link. Prologue Center for New Plays Having worked...
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Legacy of TiyatroTem on the Independent Theatre Scene of Turkey after 2000s
TiyatroTem (2001-2017) was established by Şehsuvar Aktaş (b. 1964) and Ayşe Selen (1955-2017) in...
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“I Killed My Mother/It Wasn’t My Fault.” Which Way Does One Get to Come-of-Age?
The question of universality faces entire series of utterly new answers, but not all of them find...
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Find Your Voice, Loud and Clear: Musical “Il Tenore” Review
It is 1930s Kyeongseong (what Seoul was called during the Japanese occupation), and the colonial...
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A Theatre Festival Where Nature Was the Co-actor
The man moved through the trees like an evening breeze. He mumbled chants to the leaves. His...
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Shifting the Spotlight: Exploring the Scarcity of Female Voices in Iraqi Theatre
Upon the release of Contemporary Plays from Iraq in 2017, my focus shifted to translating works...
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Is There a Right Way to Make Chinese Opera?
With countless adaptations, The Peony Pavilion is China’s answer to Swan Lake. But recent attempts...
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The play Metamorphosis reimagined the space beyond the proscenium
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Akarsh Khurana’s Play “The F Word” Is A Darkly Comic And Relatable Dive Into Family Complexities
The F Word, according to Akarsh, is a deeply personal conversation about parents, children,...
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Sensing Others through Dancing Bodies as Data: Review of Sense Datum by UBIN DANCE
In this day and age, the word data evokes preconceived images of algorithms, artificial...
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Reflections On Teaching Israel/Palestine in The Theatre Studies Classroom
What is the task of a humanities education? The following incident, which recently took place in...
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Hyderabad This Weekend: Three plays with Different Storylines to Think and Entertain
An ensemble of around 18 actors takes the stage this weekend in Hyderabad to present three plays...
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Tanika Gupta’s “The Empress” at the Lyric Hammersmith: Epic RSC History Play Tackles Race and Empire
Anniversaries are great moments for reassessment. Ten years ago, the Royal Shakespeare Company...
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On Stage And In A Wheelchair
Zhao Hongcheng has made hundreds of videos about the challenges of life as a disabled person. Now...
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Assam’s First Female Freedom Fighter, Shot a Century Ago, Rediscovered Onstage
Mangri Orang, a tea plantation worker, was gunned down by British security personnel in 1921 for...
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Anupama Chandrasekhar’s “The Father And The Assassin” At The National Theatre: Vastly Compelling And Darkly Comic History Play About Indian Independence
Nobodies who kill somebodies: let’s make a list. Okay, there’s Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK), James Earl...
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How Urdu Theater Is Reaching Out to New Audiences
The Hoshruba Repertory Theatre Festival, which begins on September 12 at Prithvi Theatre in...
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“Writing Using:” Framing the Body’s Process of Liberation Through Contemporary Dance
Writing Using is the most recent work by Ahn Aesoon, one of the most renowned contemporary dancers...
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Edinburgh International Festival 2023: “Trojan Women” By The National Theatre Of Korea
There are multiple ways to admire this production of a Greek classic, directed by Singaporean Ong...
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Eugene Ma Wants to Shake Up Hong Kong Theater
Some performers were born to be on Broadway, and Eugene Ma could easily be among them: The...
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A Beloved Chinese Classic Gets a Weightless Adaptation
Kunqu opera has made a commercial comeback over the past two decades, but a recent adaptation of...
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On China’s Broadway, IP Is King — For Now
The pandemic was unusually kind to China’s musical theater scene, but an obsession with...
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A Hindu Epic Takes the Stage in Hong Kong
If Hong Kong was the setting for a hero’s journey — the storytelling arc of trials and temptations...
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“KPOP” On Broadway: A Multisensory Feast of HEUNG
KPOP is a new musical, with a book by Jason Kim and music by Helen Park and Max Vernon. It...
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“Rangchor:” Story Of A Visually Impaired Girl Who Makes A Demon Like Colors
Gillo Repertory Theatre presented the play, Rangchor, Ek Rakshas Ki Anokhi Kahani (The Colour...
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Play on Poet Sylvia Plath Trains the Spotlight on Clinical Depression
Sylvia, a play scripted and directed by Athira Nikathil, is an intimate portrayal of the life of...
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“The Arabian Nights” in Taiwan: Deserted in the Oriental Dream
Originally a collection of West Asian folktales, The Arabian Nights may be the series of...
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The Sphinx’s Riddle Remains Unsolved. Scattering Chinese Art with “The First-Ever Metaverse Theatre Festival”
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“note to a friend” at PROTOTYPE 2023 Festival
note to a friend, composed by Pulitzer prize-winning composer David Lang, is a chamber opera...
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Three-Day Women’s Theatre Festival in Thiruvananthapuram, Begun on December 23, Showcased 14 Plays by Women Directors
A day in the museum turns out to be an unforgettable journey across time and regions for six...
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Unjust Laughter: Representations of Equity-Deserving Groups in Contemporary Iraqi Comedy
Introduction The ongoing unsettling shift of my identity from a “white” Iraqi back home (in Iraq)...
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Black Theatre in Asia—Spotlight Query
It began as a direct message conversation between two black creatives: Ghanniy Oyedele from...
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