In 2017, Kirsten Greenidge suggested that the playwrights’ responsibility in challenging times was to remain: present, agile and full of questions. What can her words tell us in these times?
Before Ukraine’s 2013-2014 Maidan events faded from people’s memories, playwright Natal’ya Vorozhbit brought the participants stories to the theatre, and the world.
Extended Play advisory board member Milo Rau’s production stems from a political campaign for migrant farm workers in Southern Italy, investigates its actual events, leaders, and participants, and extracts its course of resistance into a contemporary biblical fable for the silver screen.
Discussing the Court Theatre’s recent production of Owen McCafferty’s play Titanic: Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912, the parallels to current issues in American society and its use of sound design bring the courtroom drama close to home.
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