Articles – Archive

Save the Theatre Museum?

By Andrew Eglinton

I don’t know of another museum in Europe that rivals the breadth of the Theatre Museum’s collection.

Dec 17 2006 | View Comments

Performance videos on the web

By Andrew Eglinton

A list of freely available performance videos on the Web.

Dec 11 2006 | View Comments

Shunt’s Amato Saltone (part 1)

By Andrew Eglinton

Part 1 of a two-part retrospective article on Shunt’s production of Amato Saltone.

Nov 28 2006 | View Comments

Shunt’s Amato Saltone (part 2)

By Andrew Eglinton

Part 2 of a two-part retrospective article on Shunt’s production of Amato Saltone.

Nov 28 2006 | View Comments

Picturing the world

By Andrew Eglinton

The very idea of distilling thousands of years of human evolution into a two hour performance is itself a critique of the writing and presentation of history.

Nov 23 2006 | View Comments

Subtext, Koltès & Machu Picchu

By Andrew Eglinton

Understanding the ‘subtext’ of a play is to grapple with the tacit language of metaphor, understatement, pause and silence.

Oct 30 2006 | View Comments

Al Murwass & staging the mind

By Andrew Eglinton

In February 2005 I saw the show at the Tiny Alice theatre with a real cast, real musicians, costumes, voices, singing and dancing and not once was the war mentioned.

Oct 15 2006 | View Comments