Writer, actor, and director Ascanio Celestini is one of Italy’s most celebrated theatrical storytellers, a…
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Vincenzo Bellini’s penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently performed works, Norma (1831)…
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What is a citizen-dramaturg? Could I study it at a university? Is it merely a…
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A solo performance in theatre may often trap us inside a single dramatic character, taking…
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Sergio Blanco’s “When You Pass Over My Tomb” at the Arcola Theatre: Exquisite Meta-Theatrical Exploration Of Death and Necrophilia
Nowadays it seems that it’s the fringe and Off-West End venues that are keeping the…
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Alberto Conejero’s “En Mitad de Tanto Fuego” (In the Midst of So Much Fire): Addressing the Gaps from the Margins
Alberto Conejero’s trajectory as a playwright has been rooted in telling the stories that have…
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Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California” at the Harold Pinter Theatre: Warm Evocation of 1950s Pop Culture Is Fun, But Lacks Dramatic Resolution
In West End theatre, the cliché that nothing succeeds like success keeps the wheels of…
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Rage and Fury: Calixto Bieito Stages Aribert Reimann’s “Lear” at the Teatro Real Madrid
Shakespeare’s King Lear has defied composers who refused invitations to render this bleakest of tragedies…
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“Misericordia” (Mercy) at Madrid’s Teatro Valle Inclán: Families, (Auto)fiction and Exile
There is a lot to admire in Denise Despeyroux’s newest play produced by the Centro…
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Creativity on the Edge, Communication with the Centre, and Conversations about the Future
Being on the edge is the place where I like to be no matter in…