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REVIEW: Oynak Kumpanya Presents Phaedra’nın Aşkı
Phaedra is a difficult tragedy to stage with a straight face.
REVIEW: Cihangir Atölye Sahnesi Presents Kâtip Bartleby
The three previous productions I attended at Cihangir Atölye Sahnesi achieved what felt like a contradiction in terms: blackbox maximalism.
REVIEW: Cihangir Atölye Sahnesi Presents AYAK BACAK FABRiKASI
There is a presumption that advocacy theatre is aesthetically disinterested.
The Istanbul Tiyatro Festivali Presents ISTANBUL MON AMOUR: PERA’NIN KARANLIK ODASI By Kumbaracı50
Few neighborhoods possess the historical layering of Istanbul’s Beyoğlu.
REVIEW: Cihangir Atölye Sahnesi Presents SALOZ'UN MAVALI
Make Portugal Great Again! In their production of Saloz’un Mavalı, adapted for Turkish stages by Can Yücel, Cihangir Atölye Sahnesi stages the clash between an imagined glorious past and a bleak, oppressive present.
REVIEW: Cihangir Atölye Sahnesi Presents FiLLER VE KARINCALAR
For his interpretation of Ebenezer Scrooge in 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol, actor Michael Caine told director Brian Henson, “I’m going to play this movie like I’m working with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents YES DADDY By Bashar Murkus and Khulood Basel
The performances of this year’s Festival d’Avignon trended towards the intimate and the documentarian.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LES INCRÉDULES By Samuel Achache
Currently onstage at the Festival d’Avignon’s restored Opéra Grand Avignon is, much to my astonishment, an opera.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents TAIRE By Tamara Al Saadi
This protest forms the foundation of childhood life.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents GAHUGU GATO By Dida Nibagwire and Frédéric Fisbach
Through music, dance, and storytelling in the Festival d’Avignon’s beautiful Cloître des Célestins, a company of performers brings to life the story of a family.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LA DISTANCE By Tiago Rodrigues
A two-person epistolary drama between a father and daughter - On the surface, this sounds like the kind of conventional, writer-driven theatre that the Festival d’Avignon seeks to disrupt.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents BREL By Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Solal Mariotte
I should perhaps begin with a confession: I don’t know the work of Jacques Brel.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE SOULIER DE SATIN By La Comédie Française
Since its founding in 1947, only a handful of performances at the Festival d’Avignon have achieved mythic status.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE PROCÈS PELICOT By Milo Rau
Les Amazones d’Avignon, a local feminist collective, distributed flyers to audience members entering the Cloître des Carmes for Milo Rau’s Le Procès Pelicot.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LES PERSES By Gwenaël Morin
From 2023 to 2026, Festival d’Avignon artistic director Tiago Rodrigues has invited director Gwenaël Morin to stage an annual production under the banner Démonter Les Remparts Pour Finir Le Pont / Dismantle the Walls to Finish the Bridge.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE CANARD SAUVAGE By Thomas Ostermeier
Tragedy doesn’t hinge on a twist but on a reversal or, as the Greeks termed it, a peripeteia.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE SOMMET By Christoph Marthaler
Duri Bischoff’s set for Christoph Marthaler’s Le Sommet, now playing at the Festival d’Avignon’s FabricA theatre, presents a photorealistic cross-section of a chalet.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents REENCANTO By Mayra Andrade
The impulse with Avignon’s Cour d’Honneur is to go big.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents DELIRIOUS NIGHT By Mette Ingvartsen
Mette Ingvartsen’s Delirious Night, now in performance at the Festival d’Avignon’s Cour du Lycée St.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LAAROUSSA QUARTET By Selma & Sofiane Ouissi
Choreographers Selma and Sofiane Ouissi appear only on screen in Laaroussa Quartet, now in performance at the Festival d’Avignon’s La Fabrica.
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