The Theatre Times

An Interview with Lenerson Polonini, theatre director (Companhia Nova de Teatro, Sau Paulo, Brazil).

Lenerson Polonini is a dynamic theater director based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. With a rich artistic background spanning over 20 years, he is the co-founder of Companhia Nova de Teatro. Lenerson’s artistic journey has been marked by an unwavering p...

Tove Ditlevsen was a Danish working-class poet, novelist and feminist icon. Her memoir The Copenhagen Trilogy was initially published in separate parts. Childhood and Youth came out in 1967 respectively; and Dependency (titled Gift in Danish, meaning both ‘marriage’ and ‘poison’) was published in 1971, just five years before the au...

Nikolai Kolyada’s The Cherry Orchard begins after loss has already become the furniture of the world. In the Witkacy Theatre’s Polish-language production, presented at MİTEM, the Madách International Theatre Meeting in Budapest, Chekhov’s orchard is no longer a shimmering memory waiting to be auctioned. It is gone. What remains is not nostalgia but residue: plastic c...

There are productions that do not so much tell a biography as listen to it and Sardar Tagirovsky’s Broken Melody, produced by the Almetyevsk Tatar State Drama Theater, belongs to that rare category. It is not a monument to a composer, and not an illustrated chapter of cultural history. It is a delicate attempt to hear a human being in the place where, at first, only ...

Marta Górnicka’s choral theatre has been wowing Europe for the last 15 years. At the age of 51, she is already a holder of major honorary professorships and lifetime achievement awards – and it takes only one of her works to see exactly why.

It sounds simple – Górnicka is often credited wit...