Tasting Postcolonial Hong Kong in the Theatre*

Tasting Postcolonial Hong Kong in the Theatre*

Liang Yan** Postcolonial Affairs of Food and the Heart by Yesi, performed by On&On. Director: Chan Ping-chiu. Adaptation Playwright: Chan Ping-chiu. Original text: Postcolonial Affairs of Food and the Heart (2009), author: Yesi. Company: On&On. Premiere: Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural

Navigating the Theatre Ecology in Hong Kong: Perspectives of a Singaporean

Navigating the Theatre Ecology in Hong Kong: Perspectives of a Singaporean

Benny Lim* I moved to Hong Kong to take up a faculty position in 2013. Prior to my relocation, my understanding of Hong Kong’s theatre scene was mainly based on my yearly holidays to Hong Kong as well as the

Greece on Stage

Greece on Stage

Irene Moundraki* The theatre landscape in Greece is impressive. There are hundreds of productions in a single season. In fact, the season has no beginning and no end, and all kinds of venues are ready to welcome them; ranging from

The Collective Sonic Body

The Collective Sonic Body

Isabelle Choinière* The Body in Its Contact with Technology In this age of complexity and interaction, what possible performative aesthetic models can artists generate in resonance with the changing world of interconnectedness in which we live? This was one of

English-Canadian Theatre: Embracing a Country’s Diversity

English-Canadian Theatre: Embracing a Country’s Diversity

Martin Morrow* In the 1990s, Canadian playwright Sharon Pollock said something to me that has always stuck in my head. “The faces on the stage,” she observed, “aren’t the faces on the street.” I can no longer remember the exact

Touching/Crossing the Border: Interview with Kamila Klamut and Ewa Pasikowska (Teatr Zar)

Touching/Crossing the Border: Interview with Kamila Klamut and Ewa Pasikowska (Teatr Zar)

by Tina Peric* In 1999, almost forty years after the first experiments of Jerzy Grotowski, in the heart of the Laboratory Theatre’s space, a new movement of performance research was about to emerge. Jarosław Fret, the future director of the

Un utopiste métamorphosé en tyran

Un utopiste métamorphosé en tyran

Irène Sadowska* Séneca (Sénèque) de Antonio Gala. Version, mise en scène et scénographie Emilio Hernández, éclairages José Manuel Guerra, costumes Felype de Lima, musique originale Marco Rasa, chorégraphie Amaya Galeote. Avec Diego Garrido – Néron, Carmen Linares – Helvia, Esther

Les Bonnes en Avignon – une question de genres

<em>Les Bonnes</em> en Avignon – une question de genres

Selim Lander* De Meiden (Les Bonnes) de Jean Genet. Mise en scène de Katie Mitchell, avec Thomas Cammaert (Madame), Marieke Heebink (Claire) et Chris Nietvelt (Solange). Dramaturgie Peter van Kraaij, scénographie Chloe Lamford, costumes Wojciech Dziedzic, musique Paul Clark, lumière

Marionnette d’aujourd’hui : Espace changeant – corps changeant – esprit changeant

Marionnette d’aujourd’hui : Espace changeant – corps changeant – esprit changeant

Irina Antonova* RÉSUMÉ Elément à part entière de la scène théâtrale internationale, la Marionnette fait clairement évoluer son image traditionnelle, sous l’influence des changements interculturels et politiques agressifs qui surviennent dans les sociétés actuelles. Non seulement le théâtre de marionnettes

To Act by Singing

To Act by Singing

A conversation between Valentina Valentini* and Chiara Guidi** [Valentina Valentini]  One of the foundational aspects of Italian New Theatre is the non-centrality of the text, which is seen as interchangeable with all the other languages ​​present on stage. What were