Hervé Guay* JE PENSE À YU, texte de Carole Fréchette ; mise en scène de Marie Gignac ; scénographie de Jean Bard ; costumes de Cynthia Saint-Gelais ; éclairages d’André Rioux ; environnement sonore de Philippe Brault ; accessoire de
Aydin Talibzadeh[1] The First Baku International Puppet Festival, November 2011. Children perceive the world through fairy tales; they grow up, little by little, on these tales. There is nothing conditional, fictional or false for them: everything is true, real—as real
Andrzej Żurowski* The characteristic feature of contemporary theater understood as an international phenomenon, the feature which determines the unique specificity of contemporary performance art is, without a doubt, the mutual interpenetrating of performing styles and cultural conventions. The essence and
Ian Herbert[1] Not long ago I was at the Barbican Centre in London, watching a performance in Japanese of Shun-Kin, an adaptation by the Englishman Simon McBurney of stories by the Japanese Jun’ichiro Tanizaki. It was enthusiastically received by a
Yun-Cheol Kim[1] I Since the 1990s, “in-yer-face theatre”–or “new European theatre” has become one of the predominant phenomena of Western theatre: it originated in Great Britain, and then spread throughout Western and Eastern Europe. This banal and violent form of
Patrice Pavis* Abstract A video clip showing a little girl imitating the Wonder Girls was the starting point for a clarifying speculation on theoretical concepts such as parody, satire, irony and pastiche in Korean K-pop. The film by Jin Young
Irène Sadowska-Guillon* Électron libre dans la nouvelle dramaturgie japonaise, Shiro Maeda n’appartient à aucun des courants apparus dans les années 1990 dans le sillage du « théâtre tranquille », ancré dans la réalité et le langage quotidien. Son théâtre, à
Emil Iliev* Javor Gurdev is a 40-year-old theatre and film director from Southeastern Europe who actively works in Bulgaria and Russia. He is uncompromising in his demands and unsatisfied in his curiosity. His directing work dwells in the areas of
Propos recueillis par Irène Sadowska-Guillon* ABSTRACT: Born in Genoa in 1976, Italian playwright Fausto Paravidino is the author of dozens of plays which he has staged with his own company and in which he sometimes performs himself. He attended the
Ioana Moldovan* Every year, in April, Ion Caramitru presides over the UNITER[1] Gala, an event that celebrates the best of Romanian theatre both in state-theatres and on independent stages. Now 70 years old, Caramitru looks just as dashing as always.