Tuesday, September 1, 2020
The firing of the British artistic director of one of Paris’s most famous venues exposes fault lines between globalization and local tradition.
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The company Les Tréteaux de France has been meeting the challenges of social distancing with a variety of measures, including voice-overs and unusual settings.
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Audience members seemed to be asking one another, “Are we really doing this?” But the over-the-top physicality of “Ionesco Suite” was worth it.
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A theme park’s whiz-bang performances are an odd mix of high-quality production values and one-dimensional storytelling. Historians have long disputed the narratives.
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The first professional production in France since stages went dark in March was a back-to-basics affair, but more memorable than many slick Paris shows.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020
Our Paris theater critic looked though a new online archive to discover what was on offer for French theatergoers in 1970.
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Several French theater companies, closed in the coronavirus outbreak, have rushed to put content online. Much of it is underwhelming.
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The French star’s fearless performances – and work ethic – are the stuff of legend. In her dressing room, she talks about the pain of theatre, acting in English and #MeToo
In 2005, day…
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The Canadian director’s “The Seven Streams of the River Ota” is set for a world tour, after his most recent productions were embroiled in debates about cultural appropriation.
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France’s movie business is consumed by debates about gender inequality. Onstage, female theatermakers are bringing women’s stories to the fore.
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Peter Brook and Thomas Ostermeier are presenting unfinished shows in Paris, offering a rare chance to see how their productions come together.
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Monday, January 6, 2020
The revered film director vowed never to touch theatre. So why is he staging the great Aids epic Angels in America? Apparently, it’s all a misunderstanding
Arnaud Desplechin looks surprisi…
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Do you have to be British to get panto? We sent a French critic to three shows full of cross-dressing dames and adults playing cows. Will she ever forget the experience? Oh no she won’t!
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMThursday, December 5, 2019
The genre has long been seen as minor in the French capital, but a string of English-language productions is creating a pleasingly upbeat dynamic.
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
In Paris, the mythological Greek character Electra can once again be found in a theater, while the heroine of a quirky new play is inspired by “Rocky III.”
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Kate Mitchell’s adaptation of the 1928 novel is consistently one step behind Virginia Woolf’s mercurial prose.
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Thursday, August 22, 2019
There is a cross-dressing show for everyone in the city, from traditional cabarets to RuPaul-inspired productions.
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Despite a history stretching to 1934, it feels like a David to the art exhibition’s Goliath. But its program is all the better for that.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMThe Northern-Irish choreographer’s raw and powerful work examines gender, identity and religion, but it all happens by accident, she says.
Oona Doherty is finding out about the law of unin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMThursday, July 18, 2019
An underwhelming official lineup led many festivalgoers to branch out into the less well-known complimentary program.
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Monday, June 17, 2019
The Parisian theatre company is on a rare visit to the UK with Ivo van Hove’s The Damned. What are the secrets of the world’s oldest active troupe?
Companies like nothing more than to re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMThursday, June 6, 2019
The Printemps des Comédiens festival features productions uniquely crafted for, and occasionally by, their performers.
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Tales of women losing their grip on reality don’t exist in a void. They fit into broader cultural narratives.
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Two productions in Paris with their roots in the Greek playwright’s works explore the nature of human brutality. But without any CGI effects.
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