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Watching a Recorded Play – A View from The Bridge, National Theatre Live
A View from the Bridge (2015, Ivo Van Hove) Image Source: NTLive Facebook Last week, I watched a performance of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, recorded at the Young Vic as a part of the...
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A response to Esplanade RAW series: You Are Here
Featured: Poet, Performer: Pooja Nansi, from her facebook page. Photo credit: Crispian Chan. One of the markers of a successful piece of theatre is the way in which it provokes a response from the...
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Children and Theatre: Audience etiquette and expectations
I was looking at an illustration of Buddha’s Footprints at the British Museum’s Treasures of the World exhibit at The National Museum recently, when a small child walked up and commented that they...
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9Days 10Plays – Blue/Orange at Young Vic
I had the pleasure of watching a string of excellent productions in London over a 9 day period in early July. The first of which was the 2016 revival of Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange at the Young Vic....
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9Days 10Plays – Threepenny Opera at National Theatre
The second play I watched in London was Brecht’s stunning piece that offered a complex and complicated experience of the theater. The Threepenny Opera challenges our understanding of not just the...
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Five Easy Pieces – Spectatorship and Responsibility
At the Edge of Theater A good piece of theater is not sold just on the honesty of the plot but also on the truth of the frame. Many times you may watch a good play that tells a remarkable story of...
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9Days 10Plays – DoubleBill: A Comedy About a Bank Robbery That Goes Wrong
Comedy is tough. While serious drama too demands a high level of professionalism to pull together an effective show, it can make up for technical gaps in brilliant performances of its actors. Comedy,...
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Watching The Audience Watch – Disgraced
Theater has always had ritualistic associations. It is a sacred space that elevates the text through its collective encounter. Yes, the meaning that the author intends is clearly visible in the text –...
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