Don’t miss Le Théâtre de la Colline’s last two English-subtitled performances of the 2009-2010 season. After A Doll’s House and The Just Assassins, the theater will enhance their presentation of the play Black Battles with Dogs by Bernard-Marie Koltès for an English-speaking audience on the evenings of 16 and 25 June, and they’ll even be [...]
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French director Richard Brunel may have chosen the elegant Athénée Theatre for his production of Philip Glass’s chamber opera, but it couldn’t be further from the gilt-and-plush world of traditional opera. Based on Kafka’s short story of the same name, the piece is a two-handed drama between a gentleman traveller touring a remote island prison [...] Director Declan Donnellan cements UK theatre company Cheek by Jowl’s reputation for pacy, pared-down productions of the classics with this exhilarating version of Macbeth, which comes to Les Gémeaux in Sceaux as part of a European tour. Already a relatively short play, in Donnellan’s hands Shakespeare’s tragedy of a man who would be king moves [...] Legendary director Peter Brooke presents a new production at his Paris theatre Les Bouffes du Nord. ‘Eleven and Twelve’ is based on a novel by Malian writer and ethnologue Amadou Hampaté Bâ on the life and teachings of his spiritual leader Tierno Bokar. Bokar (1875–1939) was a Sufi sage, a member of a distinguished clan, [...] |
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