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“You Do Not Have to Mention Names, No Matter Whose Ox is Gored” — Interview with Nigerian Playwright and Director Stella ‘Dia Oyedepo

“You Do Not Have to Mention Names, No Matter Whose Ox is Gored” — Interview with Nigerian Playwright and Director Stella ‘Dia Oyedepo

Interviewed by Ngozi Udengwu* Stella ‘Dia Oyedepo will be remembered as the one who kept stage performance alive in an age when that art form is believed to have met its waterloo, almost displaced by the screen and the satellite

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“We Have Been Silenced into Submission; It’s All Skin-Deep Democracy” — Interview with Ramu Ramanathan, Indian Playwright and Director

“We Have Been Silenced into Submission; It’s All Skin-Deep Democracy” — Interview with Ramu Ramanathan, Indian Playwright and Director

Interviewed by Deepa Punjani* Ramu Ramanathan is an Indian playwright-director with acclaimed plays to his credit. His latest play Comrade Kumbhakarna has been produced by the National School of Drama’s Repertory, and is touring all-over India. Ramanathan’s work bears an

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“Trying to Look at Opera From the Pillars of Theatre” — Interview with Ruth Margraff, U.S. Playwright and Librettist

“Trying to Look at Opera From the Pillars of Theatre” — Interview with Ruth Margraff, U.S. Playwright and Librettist

Interviewed by Randy Gener* The playwright and librettist Ruth Margraff has been called a leader in the new opera movement in America. Margraff, who is an associate professor of writing and playwriting at the School of the Art Institute Chicago,

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“I Believe in a Theatre That Lives and Breathes Like a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band” — Interview with Srdjan Janićijević, Macedonian Theatre Director

“I Believe in a Theatre That Lives and Breathes Like a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band” — Interview with Srdjan Janićijević, Macedonian Theatre Director

Interviewed by Nelko Nelkovski[1] Srdjan Janićijević (born in 1970) is a Macedonian theatre director from the middle generation who, with his fresh way of thinking and his innovative approaches, plays an important role in late postmodern theatre in the Republic

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“That Point in the Drama Where It Starts to Hurt, That’s Where the Work Gets Interesting” — Interview with Roland Schimmelpfenning, German Playwright and Director

“That Point in the Drama Where It Starts to Hurt, That’s Where the Work Gets Interesting” — Interview with Roland Schimmelpfenning, German Playwright and Director

Interviewed by Randy Gener[1] Thanks to a growing international reputation, German-language stages may now claim a new star on their marquees: a popular new dramatist who has taken his place alongside such favorites as Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller and Ibsen. His

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“Looking Back Now After Seven Decades of Theatre Activity” — An Interview with the Romanian Actor and Director Ion Lucian

“Looking Back Now After Seven Decades of Theatre Activity” — An Interview with the Romanian Actor and Director Ion Lucian

Interviewed by Ioana Moldovan* The Romanian actor and theatre director Ion Lucian was born on April 22, 1924 — a time when Romania was a different country, and its capital city, Bucharest had just begun to resemble Paris, the marvelous

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“Fear. Hope. The Life Force”: Why I Write Plays — Interview with Craig Lucas

“Fear. Hope. The Life Force”: Why I Write Plays — Interview with Craig Lucas

Interviewed by Randy Gener[1] CRAIG LUCAS, Playwright, Screenwriter, Film and Stage Director Although they are realistic in character detail and plot, Craig Lucas’s fable-like plays almost always depend on the formal magic of inventive artifice and the forceful complications of

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“We Make the Sublime Maneuver, Constantly Putting Ourselves on the Verge of Falling” — An Interview with the Portuguese Collective Teatro Praga

“We Make the Sublime Maneuver, Constantly Putting Ourselves on the Verge of Falling” — An Interview with the Portuguese Collective Teatro Praga

Interviewed by Tiago Bartolomeu Costa[1] The individualities that form Teatro Praga — a group of artists who began to work together in 1995 in Portugal without a director — state that they “embrace an unrepeatable theatrical practice.” According to the

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