The Whole World focuses on the incoherence that lurks underneath the empowering narratives we tell about ourselves.
German Stage
Fuse Stage Review: An Israeli Playwright Expertly Analyzes “A Case Named Freud”
Israeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht’s new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.
Theater Review: German Stage — These Youth Don’t Want to Hear No “WhiteBreadMusic”
In interesting ways, German Stage’s ongoing exploration of Germany’s immigrant populations provides a lens through which we can evaluate how we perceive our immigrants and how we treat them.
Theater Review: An Enigmatic “Abyss” — A Crime Drama About Serbs in Germany
Does the distrust of (even a little) narrative ambiguity by North American dramaturgs and audiences mean that international plays must be made more ‘cinematic’ when they are produced here?
Theater Review: “The Golden Dragon” — A Satire With Bite about International Cuisine
In his satire “The Golden Dragon,” Roland Schimmelpfennig holds his funhouse mirror up to “theater-people”: be they artists, audience, teachers, or students.
Theater Feature: From the Mouths of Female Despots — An Interview With Playwright Theresia Walser
Dramatist Theresia Walser is careful to point out that these women did not merely benefit from the abuses of authoritarian power, but perpetrated many of them as well.
Theater Review: “A Little Calm Before the Storm” — The Art of Playing Hitler
Director Guy Ben-Aharon is on a roll. Working through Israeli Stage and German Stage, he has brought together another smart, compelling foreign play (an American premiere) and a first-rate cast.
Theater Review: A Moving “let us find the words”
Ingeborg Bachmann wanted freedom for them both. She says in her letter, “I am free and I am lost in this freedom.” Dominique Frot is a brave actress. She presents the poet’s freedom in her body and voice.
Fuse Theater Review: Eighteenth Century Pen Pals — Voltaire and Frederick
Playwright Gericke-Schönhagen, hoping to avoid the phenomenon of talking heads, deliberately placed emphasis on those letters between Voltaire and Frederick that dramatized personalities rather than ideas.
Theater Feature: A German Stage at the Goethe-Institut Boston
“The Boston theatre community can always profit from international influx. The German theatre scene in particular is quite innovative both in the plays being written and the productions that reach the stage.”