The Theatre Times

For the last full production of his first season as artistic director of Packhaustheater in Bremen, Dirk Böhling had written and directed a revue-style, 90-minute, fast-paced accumulation of quirky, short scenes about Bremen – covering some of the city’s history (for example, when and why the district in which the theatre is located received the name Schnoor), and so...

STONE DESIGN Architects – Authors of the project No Man’s Land (2015/2016). Connected by a shared commitment to modern, urban, and sophisticated architecture, in 1999 four fellow students – Ljupco Tasevski, Stojan Pavleski, Ivan Simeonov, and Gjorgi Radovanovic, founded STONE DESIGN, a Macedonian architectural studio specializing in architecture, urb...

Seats have long been sold out for this production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which brings iconic actor Kenneth Branagh back to the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) after a thirty-year hiatus. Shakespeare buffs from all over the world have been keen to see the show, and the audience in the packed theatre on the evening I was there was a mix of overseas tourists and ...

This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have included practitioners from Italy and many parts of the world, including Africa, Japan, New Zealand, Indonesia, Greece, and India, who are bent on exploring native rituals and traditio...

This year’s theatre Biennale (7 to 21 June), with Willem Dafoe at the helm, has the intriguing title, Alter Native. In fact, in the program, the director and his advisory team have included practitioners from Italy and many parts of the world, including Africa, Japan, New Zealand, Indonesia, Greece, and India, who are bent on exploring native rituals and traditio...