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Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Thursday, October 25, 2018 17:48 - 0 Comments
Theatre">Review | The Shroud Maker: Lives and death in Palestine Theatre
In the Shroud Maker, Palestinian playwright Ahmed Masoud brings a welcome dose of gallows humour to the most tragic of canvasses, writes Christa Blackmon.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Sunday, August 26, 2018 12:59 - 0 Comments
Theatre">Review | Translations (National Theatre) Theatre
The recent National Theatre production of Brian Friel's 'Translations' is a remarkable take on the central — and perennially relevant — questions of place, belonging and dislocation, argues Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya in her review.
New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Tuesday, February 25, 2014 15:44 - 2 Comments
Theatre">Review | ‘The Threepenny Opera’ by Bertolt Brecht (Nottingham Playhouse) Theatre
Richard Pilgrim reviews a new production of a great classic of German pre-war theatre, Bertolt Brecht's ‘The Threepenny Opera’.
New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Sunday, February 9, 2014 20:39 - 2 Comments
Theatre">Review: My Judy Garland Life (Nottingham Playhouse) Theatre
'My Judy Garland Life', the new play by acclaimed writer Amanda Whittington, brilliantly combines glitzy escapism with thought-provoking drama on the vagaries of ambition and fame, argues Richard Pilgrim.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Monday, December 10, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments
Theatre">Review | Hero (Royal Court) Theatre
The Royal Court's new play 'Hero' is billed as an intricate and provocative take on modern attitudes to sexuality. Samuel A. crown, who didn't agree, explains why he left during the interval.
Arts & Culture, Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Thursday, November 1, 2012 0:00 - 1 Comment
Arts & Culture">Unto The Breach: Can Shakespeare Help us Unravel the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict? Arts & Culture
Next week sees the UK premiere of Unto the Breach, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V by Al Zayotuna, Europe's most renowned Palestinian theatre and dance company. Ahmed Masoud and Souraya Qabbani explore the parallels and paradoxes behind the production.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Wednesday, August 1, 2012 19:31 - 0 Comments
Theatre">Review: Macbeth: Leila and Ben – A Bloody History ( LIFT) Theatre
Sheyma Buali reviews the world premiere of a boisterous Tunisian take on Shakespeare's tale of the corruption of power, where the eponymous tyrant and his wife are reincarnated as Leïla and Zine Ben Ali.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Sunday, May 13, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments
Theatre">Review: Cymbeline, South Sudan Theatre Company (Shakespeare’s Globe) Theatre
Part of the 'Globe to Globe' programme of 37 plays in 37 languages, the SSTC's Cymbeline is heavy with historical and political parallels. Ceasefire's Derek Oakley is impressed.
Exhibition, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Friday, December 16, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Arts & Culture">How to remember Stalin: ‘The Collaborators’ (National Theatre) and ‘Building the Revolution’ (Royal Academy) Arts & Culture
A Soviet-nostalgia revival seems to be under way, with John Hodge's new play 'The Collaborators' and the Royal Academy's new exhibition on Soviet Art and Architecture. Musab Younis, Ceasefire's deputy editor, reviews.
New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Saturday, November 19, 2011 1:30 - 1 Comment
Theatre">Review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Nottingham Playhouse) Theatre
Malte Ringer finds Nottingham Playhouse’s recent production of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui both impressive and timely.
