Georgia Series: Kakutsa Cholokashvili
After the relatively short performance of Hilda, I was able to see the last two thirds of Levan Tsuladze’s production of Kakutsa Cholokashvili. This new play by the historian Guram… Continue reading...
Author Archives for Jens Peters
Jens Peters - has published 15 posts on London Theatre Blog.
Jens Peters is currently completing his MA in Text & Performance Studies at King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He is active as a director and dramaturg, and has experience as an assistant director in Germany, France, and the UK.
Georgia Series: Hilda
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | 0 Comments
The next day of the festival started off with Hilda by French playwright Marie Ndiaye. This production is a collaboration between the Marjanishvili Theatre and the London based company Caravanserai under… Continue reading...
Georgia Series: Beso Kupreishvili’s Fingers Theatre
Saturday, December 27, 2008 | 0 Comments
I left A Midsummer Night’s Dream just in time to catch a truly unique show by Beso Kupreishvili’s Fingers Theatre. The company used a well-known Rock music video (the name and… Continue reading...
Georgia Series: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Friday, December 19, 2008 | 2 Comments
As part of their 80th anniversary celebration and as a precursor of the International Festival in Tbilisi next year, the Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre invited directors, dramaturgs and producers from… Continue reading...
Georgia Series: The Rendezvous
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | 0 Comments
London Theatre Blog is pleased to present a series of seven reviews, written by director/dramaturg Jens Peters, of productions at the Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre (Tiblisi, Georgia) as part of… Continue reading...
The Day They Banned Christmas
Monday, October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
“If everyone is out looking for a myth, how can they find reality?” This sentence occurs towards the end of Christopher James’ new play at the Courtyard. On the surface,… Continue reading...
Torn
Friday, July 25, 2008 | 0 Comments
The story told by Femi Oguns in the new production at the Acola Theatre is at least as old as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Torn revolves around a love story between… Continue reading...
The Magadelene Mysteries
Monday, July 21, 2008 | 0 Comments
If you find the questions raised in Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code intriguing, but you’re dissatisfied with the lack of serious argumentation and trustworthy sources, I recommend going to see The… Continue reading...
Le Mariage
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 | 0 Comments
France 2007. The new president Sarkozy has just introduced a target of 25,000 illegal immigrants to be deported by the end of the year. But not everybody is willing to… Continue reading...
The Pendulum
Saturday, June 28, 2008 | 4 Comments
Alexander Fiske-Harrison’s new play at the Jermyn Street Theatre is well-made in every sense of the term. He presents a solidly written story of love and jealousy, twisted with social… Continue reading...
Saturday, January 3, 2009 | 0 Comments