Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B poses actors in tableau vivants that nod to 19th century human zoos, and Southwest African concentration camps. Patrick Gaughan charts the controversy around the show and his own experience of it.
Liminal Space Productions in London presented a staged reading of Flight by Patrick Gabridge livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 27 October at 7:30 p.m. GMT / 3:30 p.m. EDT (Toronto) / 2:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 12:30 p.m. PDT (Vancouver).
Talya Kingston continues her look at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival and diologue on the Scottish independence referendum, here she writes about Rona Munro's triology of James plays.
Miracle Theatre of Cornwall, United Kingdom presented a performance of The Tempest livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 9 September at 19:30 BST (UK) / 18:30 GMT / 2:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 1:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 11:30 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles).
Liminal Space in London presented a staged reading of Sketby Maya Sondhi livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 24 March 2014 at 12:30 p.m. PDT (Vancouver)/ 2:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago)/ 3:30 p.m. EDT (Toronto)/ 7:30 p.m. GMT (London)/ 8:30 p.m. CET (Berlin).
University of Wales Trinity St David (UK) presented Barbie Caerdroia—a Welsh translation of Trojan Barbie by Christine Evans, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 21 March at 7 p.m. GMT / 3 p.m. EDT (New York) / 2 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 12 p.m. (Vancouver).
The Donmar Warehouse's all-female production of Julius Caesar encloses the story into a women’s prison to bring to light contemporary commentary on freedom and betrayal.
In this first installment, Talya Kingston struggles to figure out the best way to choose from all of the possible selections to see at Edinburgh Fringe.
The tour of UK’s War Horse in the United States shows us that, even a ingenious play, assumed historical knowledge can make or break an audience’s experience.
New Dramatists presented "Over There, Over Here": A Forum on New Play Development in the United Kingdom livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 19 February 2013 at 4 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EST (New York) / (Wed, Feb 20 at 0:00 GMT—London).
This episode takes a closer look at the interplay of particular participants and group dynamics in the workshops. They get to know each other by making theatre together and empathize with people from radically different circumstances. Jan and Finn begin a slow courtship. The drama club becomes a safe space for Mama Glo.
Neoliberal and colonial empires have devastated Muslim communities across the globe. Whether it is British imperialism in South Asia or the military adventurism of the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, geopolitical violence has moved Muslims from homelands to colonizers’ lands. Throughout these migrations, theatre and the telling of stories have been sources of strength and solidarity, a legacy drawing on the origins of Muslim history. Indeed, the dates of today’s Islamic calendar bear the acronym “AH” or “After Hijrah,” a term that references the migration of early Muslims from the religious oppression they faced in Makkah to a more tolerant context in Medina. Drawing on this legacy of migration to escape subjugation, Transatlantic Muslim Voices examines the ways that contemporary British and US theatre artists have continued or drawn inspiration from this practice through their own work. The contributors to this series are diverse in their racial, ethnic, gender, linguistic, and sexual identities, but all of them meditate on what it means to be a Muslim on the move.
Series
Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021
Celebrating Four Years of Contemporary, International Romani Theatre
Independent Theater Hungary in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons presented the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021 which included forty livestreams of twenty shows and twenty interviews from Romani artists in ten countries who were featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Budapest. Livestreamed on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network Tuesday 19 October to Friday 10 December 2021.
Each of the dialogues in this series speaks of the connection between political activism, creativity, and spirituality— and highlights the importance of intergenerational knowledge-sharing for the future of the Live Arts and Theatre sectors of the UK.
Aley O’Mara reflects on Daniel Winder’s Hamlet and speaks to the lead—trans actor Jenet Le Lacheur—about the titular character in this production being nonbinary and transfeminine.
To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act on 26 July 2015, we're publishing a series of pieces focusing on issues of accessibility and visibility in theatre.
