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Thursday, August 15, 2024

“In Two Minds.” Female Led Irish Storytelling by Margaret Rose

In Two Minds, produced by Dublin’s celebrated multi-award winning Fishamble, is playing at Traverse Theatre, Scotland’s home for new writing. Dramatist and performer Joanne Ryan has crea…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:12PM
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

“Penthesilea” After Von Kleist. Let’s Rock by Margaret Rose

Director of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), Nicola Benedetti, chose ‘Rituals that unite us” as the theme for this year’s festival, which got off to a stunning start in the …

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“Hamstrung.” Yorick’s Untold Story by Margaret Rose

Hamlet, along with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Macbeth, are probably the Shakespeare plays that are most often revisited today by writers, with very different intentions and…

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Sunday, July 28, 2024

52nd Venice Theatre Biennale (15-30 June). Gob Squad’s “Elephants In Rooms” And “Creation (Pictures For Dorian)” by Margaret Rose

This year’s Theatre Biennale (15 to 30 June), entitled, Niger and Albus (Black and White), sees directors Gianni Forte and Stefano Ricci keen – as they note in their introduction – to …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:15PM
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

52nd Venice Theatre Biennale (15-30 June). Tim Crouch’s “Truth’s A Dog Must To Kennel” by Margaret Rose

After Brexit, UK productions very rarely play in Italy, but Biennale theatre directors Gianni Forte and Stefano Ricci have made an exception. The final days of the Festival put center stage …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:56PM
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

“Bérénice” at Milan’s FOG Festival by Margaret Rose

Together with Wayne McGregor’s dance piece, UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, Romeo Castellucci’s reimagining of Jean Racine’s Bérénice (first staged in 1670), with Isabelle Huppert …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:33PM
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Milan’s FOG Festival  by Margaret Rose

Milan’s international multidisciplinary performance art festival FOG, featuring theatre, music, and dance, is at its seventh edition. The brainchild of the Triennale theatre’s artistic d…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:47PM
Friday, March 1, 2024

Ascanio Celestini’s “Rumba. The Donkey and the Ox” by Margaret Rose

Writer, actor, and director Ascanio Celestini is one of Italy’s most celebrated theatrical storytellers, a genre much loved by Italian audiences of all ages. For me, Dario Fo was the undis…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:39AM
Friday, December 1, 2023

Prison Shakespeare at Milan’s Young Offenders Institute by Margaret Rose

Since 2015 my theatre studies colleague, Cristina Cavecchi, and I have been leading Shakespeare prison workshops at the Puntozero Beccaria Theatre. This two-hundred-seater theatre is the onl…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:32AM

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