Theater and Dance
A new dramatization of Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia
By Barbara Slaughter, July 3, 2004
A new play based on George Orwell’s book Homage to Catalonia ended its international run in Barcelona on June 14. The drama’s theme was one which has rarely if ever been dealt with on stag...
Homage to Catalonia on stage: an interview with writer Pablo Ley and director Josep Galindo
July 3, 2004
Barbara Slaughter of the WSWS interviewed Spanish writer Pablo Ley, who co-adapted George Orwell’s Homage to Cataloniafor the stage, and Josep Galindo, who directed the recent production. [See: ...
A good deal to chew, and not all of it edible: Brecht and Mother Courage
By David Walsh, March 22, 2004
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, at the Classical Theater of Harlem, February 4-29
“McKinsey Is Coming”
A feeble warning to the German business and political establishment by playwright Rolf Hochhuth
By Ulrich Rippert, March 9, 2004
At the conclusion of five short acts, the flag of the European Union is burning on stage and a demonstrator shouts: “A lack of imagination and submissiveness towards our master, the US, has led ...
A victim of state terror in the US
Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America: A Drama in 30 Scenes by Stephen Sewell
By Margaret Rees, September 11, 2003
Australian writer Stephen Sewell’s latest play attempts to examine the rapid expansion of the US state apparatus since September 11, 2001 and how the Bush administration’s “war again...
Ben Jonson’s Volpone: black comedy from the dawn of the modern era
By Stephen Griffiths, June 24, 2003
In response to the Sydney Theatre Company’s (STC) production of Ben Jonson’s Volpone last year, I determined to undertake a study of the life and work of this extraordinary playwright and ...
Interview with Dean Gabourie, director of Awake and Sing!
By Carl Bronski, May 20, 2003
Carl Bronski: You’ve recently revived Waiting for Lefty here in Toronto. You’ve just finished a run with Awake and Sing! What is it about Odets’ work that attracts you?
Politics and the theatre: two plays in Toronto
By Carl Bronski, May 20, 2003
“I know what men can be!”—Clifford Odets, 1935
Episodes from the class struggle in Britain
Just Before the Rain and Coal Not Dole
By Liz Smith and Harvey Thompson, May 12, 2003
In the past months two plays—Coal Not Dole, on the 1984-1985 British miners strike, and Just Before The Rain, on the Oldham riots of 2001—have been touring theatres in Britain.
An evening with Nederlands Dans Theatre II
The challenges confronting contemporary modern dance
By Andrea Peters, May 8, 2003
“Real art can never escape from life. In histrionic* terms, illusions are not false impressions or misconceptions of reality. The world of illusion which the audience expects from the artist is, in ...
Royal Shakespeare Company on tour in the US
Midnight’s Children cast members speak out on war against Iraq
By Joseph Kay and David Walsh, March 20, 2003
The British Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) recently concluded a residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In addition to Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and The Merry Wives of Windsor, per...
Actors stage Aristophanes’ Lysistrata to protest war against Iraq
By Joanne Laurier, March 15, 2003
Billed as “The Largest World-Wide Theatrical Protest for Peace,” readings of the ancient Greek antiwar comedy Lysistrata were held in 59 countries and in all 50 states in the US on March 3...
