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theatre
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Bread and Puppet Theatre: Insurrection Resurrection Service Circus
Read more: Bread and Puppet Theatre: Insurrection Resurrection Service CircusThe Insurrection-Resurrection Service Circus is this summer’s [started in 2020 and is ongoing] contribution to the iconic Bread and Puppet Circus tradition beloved by audiences worldwide for nearly 2 generations — a bright, raucous melee of short acts governed by…
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In NYC, Activism Begins With Lessons In Theater
Read more: In NYC, Activism Begins With Lessons In TheaterNote before the post: This article is great in highlighting a specific case of creative activism in the streets of New York City, but also gives some contextual background to how this project manifested. On a sidewalk in the Village…
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Teen Actors Keep Playwright August Wilson’s Legacy Alive
Read more: Teen Actors Keep Playwright August Wilson’s Legacy AliveEight years after his death, the annual August Wilson Monologue Competition provides high school students from around the country an opportunity to carry on the African-American playwright’s legacy. That legacy includes Pulitzer Prizes for “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson,” two…
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Eric Bouvet’s Chechnya On Stage
Read more: Eric Bouvet’s Chechnya On Stage“On Friday, March 15, 2013, for the launch of the 20th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the theatre company Map performed Jusqu’au bout, a play directed by David Ropars based on a text by the photojournalist Eric…
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Ngapartji Ngapartji
Read more: Ngapartji NgapartjiFrom 2005-2010 the Ngapartji Ngapartji project was based out of Alice Springs, working with Pitjantjatjara communities throughout Central Australia. The project created an online Pitjantjatjara language site, two touring theatre works and a documentary Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji; http://www.nothingrhymeswithngapartji.com/ The…
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V-Day
Read more: V-DayV-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the…
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Hotel Voices
Read more: Hotel VoicesThe Revolutionary Theatre project co-written, co-directed and acted by writers, artists and poets currently living, surviving and sometimes thriving in Single Room Occupancy Hotels aka poor people housing in the Bay Area. Hotel Voices theatrically speaks to and educates the…
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Waiting for Godot
Read more: Waiting for Godot“IN an instant all will vanish and we’ll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.” When the actor Wendell Pierce spoke these words in performances of “Waiting for Godot” here last month, he really was in the middle…
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Much Ado About BP
Read more: Much Ado About BP“Members of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company jumped on stage at the Noël Coward theatre to deliver another surprise anti-BP performance. Just before the second half of a BP-sponsored Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) performance of Much Ado About Nothing was due…
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Syria’s Creative Resistance
Read more: Syria’s Creative ResistanceBashar al-Assad snores, his head twitching on a large white pillow. Suddenly, he wakes up. “The people want to overthrow me!” he screams, the pompom on his nightcap bouncing. A military officer approaches, pats him on the head and whispers gently,…