Interviewed by Randy Gener[1] A U.S. playwright, songwriter, translator, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and editor of Cuban-Argentine-Spanish and Croatian descent, she is the author of some 27 or 28 full-length original plays (more than 40, if you include short
Interviewed by Lissa Tyler Renaud[1] Slobodan Dan Paich is artistic director of the Artship Ensemble in San Francisco, Calif., U.S.A. Slobodan Dan Paich’s theatre activism is the dignity of the process itself. He is artistic director of the Artship Ensemble
Interviewed by Randy Gener[1] Born in 1969, Mattias Andersson – playwright, director and artistic director of Backa Teater of Göteborg (Sweden) – trained as an actor at the Göteborg Academy of Music and Drama. Between 1990 and 1993, he was
Interview with Chandradasan Interviewed by Lissa Tyler Renaud[1] CHANDRADASAN is artistic director of Lokadharmi in Kerala, India. Chandradasan founded Lokadharmi, the Centre for Theatre Training, Research and Performance in Kerala, India in 1991 to foster theatre as an integral part
A version of this essay appeared as “Race Free, Gender Free, Body-Type Free, Age Free Casting” in TDR (1988) 33, 1: 4-12. Richard Schechner Abstract / Résumé The majority of roles in the Western classic and modern classic repertories are male
Don Rubin[1] Nearly five decades years ago, this year’s Thalia Prize laureate, Richard Schechner, wrote in his first important book, Public Domain, that [T]he function and the vocabulary of criticism and theory are important, difficult problems. Important because theatre deserves