Category Archives: Commentary
Dawn King is Finalist for renowned Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Also posted in Theatre, Translation
Tagged author, blackburn, bürgerbühne, competition, dawn, düsseldorf, finalist, foxfinder, future, king, play, playwright, prozesse, smith, translation, trials, winner
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Reading list 2020
What I read in 2020.
EXPLOSION as a stream
by Alica Minar The recording for Alica Minar’s choreography EXPLOSION (performance of 30 November 2020; 47 min) can be streamed here:
Also posted in Event, Production
Tagged alica, Alica Minárová, Caroline Alexander, choreographie, Evgenia Chetvertkova, explosion, Hejl, hzt, Konecna, Lauri Lohi, minar, minarova, Vorechovska, Xenia Vlachou Kogchylaki
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VTHEA demands kill fees
In an open letter to the theatres, the German playwrights association VTheA e. V., founded in October at the Grips-Theater in Berlin, demands kill fees for all shows that were cancelled this year due to the restrictions to control the coronavirus. The restrictions imposed to control the coronavirus lead to loss of income for theatre […]
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Tagged corona, pandemic, plays, playwrights, royalties, stage, theater, theatre, virus, writer
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Playwrights elsewhere: Karnataka, India (Arwind)
What do playwrights elsewhere write about?
Also posted in Theatre, Translation
Tagged arwind, author, deepika, Festival, Henning Bochert, india, international, karnataka, play, playwrights, stage, theatre, translation
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A Week With The Fence
The Fence, this “strange animal”, as its founder Jonathan Meth calls it, is a circle of professional friends all over the world, a club, really, that operates on a recommendation basis. Its focus lies on the work of playwriting, of developing plays, working with directors and dramaturgs.
Hardened Positions in US theater
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Tagged andrea, article, Bochert, college, identity, jeremy harris, journal, London, politics, society, stolowitz, theater, theater arts, Todd, university, USA, williams
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Drama Panorama: the new newsletter
Drama Panorama’s second newsletter in 2021 just appeared.