Performance Reviews

Drunks, Dreamers and Dancers by the Sea

Ιan Herbert* Viafest, Varna, Bulgaria, 1-11 June 2019 Viafest is the shorthand title for the International Theatre Festival Varna Summer, now in its 27th edition. For eleven busy days, at the beginning of June, the popular Black Sea resort welcomed

War Is All Around Us

Tamás Jászay* Interferences International Theatre Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, November 22-30 2018 Interferences has become shorter—for obvious financial reasons (as everywhere nowadays), but not only. Usually stretching into early December, this year the festival ended on November 30. This is no

Eclectic Encounters in the Forest Festival of Thessaloniki

Katerina Delikonstantinidou* 2nd International Forest Festival of Thessaloniki, Greece, June 28-July 6, 2018 In 2015, the National Theatre of Northern Greece (NTNG) collaborated with the Hellenic Festival to organize the first Forest Festival of Thessaloniki in an effort to enhance

Unruly Feminist Circus in the Wake of #metoo

Loretto Villalobos* Guds olydiga revben (God’s Disobedient Rib), adapted by Lærke Reddersen and Martina Montelius from the book by Gunilla Thorgren. Director: Tilde Björfors. Set: Fridjon Rafnsson. Costume: Anna Heymowska. Lighting design: Patrik Angestav. Music and sound design: Samuel “Loop

Bleeding Heads and Bodies in Finland

Matti Linnavuori* Harriet, written and directed by Milja Sarkola. Set design: Kaisa Rasila; costume design: Riitta Röpelinen; lighting design: Ville Mäkelä; sound design: Jussi Kärkkäinen. Première at Ryhmäteatteri, Helsinki, Finland, February 13, 2019.Medusan huone (Medusa’s Room), written and directed by

Expanding the Boundaries

Tina Perić* Belgrade Dance Festival, March 22, 2019 to April 12, 2019 At the beginning of spring, for the last sixteen years, the Belgrade Dance Festival has brought to Serbia a significant number of eminent dance companies from all over the world.

Uncle Vanya’s Roars on the Grand Piano

Aydin Talıbzadeh* Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya by Chiten theatre of Japan, directed by Motoi Miura. Seen at the M.A.P. (Music Art Performance) Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 5-11, 2018. Chiten theatre from Japan performed a spectacle of genius based on

The Twentieth Century in One Family

Lasha Chkhartishvili* Das achte Leben (Für Brilka), or The Eighth Life (for Brilka). Adapted by Julia Lochte and Emilia Linda Heinrich from the novel by Nino Kharatishvili. Directed by Jette Steckel. Costume designer: Pauline Hüners; stage designer: Florian Lösche; video by Zaza

L’Impossible Procès des Guadeloupéens : Une dialectique fragile s’impose

Alvina Ruprecht* Adapté du texte collectif Le Procès des Guadeloupéens, Éditions L’Harmattan, 1981 ; Mé 67 de Raymond Gama et Pierre Sainton, Éditions Soged, 1985. Texte de Guy Lafages, adaptation et mise en scène de Luc Saint-Eloy. Spectacle présenté au Festival