Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #politicaltheatre, aggregated by home.social.
‘I knew I was being followed’: Keira Knightley on her hacking nightmare – and new Stasi spy play The Lives of Others
By Ryan Gilbey
As the Oscar-winning Stasi surveillance film hits the stage, Knightley and co-star Luke Thompson talk about the paranoia at its heart, the cost of theatre tickets nowadays – and their fury at ringtones in the stalls
#Theatre #Stage #Culture #KeiraKnightley #TheLivesofOthers #Film #RobertIcke #Germany #WestEnd #Politicaltheatre #Acting #TheGuardian #RyanGilbey
Suffragette cities: blazing Sylvia Pankhurst musical hits the road – in pictures
By All photographs by Tristram Kenton
Sylvia: A Musical Revolution, the hit show about the Pankhursts and the suffrage movement, is going on a tour of England and Scotland. We took a first look at Leicester’s Curve theatre
#Stage #Culture #Musicals #Theatre #BeverleyKnight #Curvetheatre #Politics #Dance #KatePrince #EmmelinePankhurst #ZooNation #Politicaltheatre #Womenssuffrage #TheGuardian #AllphotographsbyTristramKenton
‘Jaw-dropping’ play based on Pelicot rape trial comes to London for one night
By Helena Horton
Four-hour production featuring star-studded cast will be performed at London County Hall
#GislePelicot #France #GislePelicotrapetrial #UKnews #Theatre #Stage #MiloRau #Politicaltheatre #Culture #Europe #TheGuardian #HelenaHorton
‘Jaw-dropping’ play based on Pelicot rape trial comes to London for one night https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/29/jaw-dropping-play-based-on-pelicot-trial-comes-to-london-for-one-night #GislePelicot #France #GislePelicotRapeTrial #UkNews #Theatre #Stage #MiloRau #PoliticalTheatre #Culture #Europe
The First Year (of the Gaza Genocide in the Media) review – bold but uneven focus on Palestinian voices
By Arifa Akbar
New Diorama theatre, LondonPassionate production based on testimonies from Gaza poses many questions regarding Israel’s actions but gets overwhelmed by fact-delivery and form-switches
#Stage #Theatre #Culture #Politicaltheatre #IsraelGazawar #TheGuardian #ArifaAkbar
Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists review – It caused fury across Europe. In the UK? Laughter and coughing
By Arifa Akbar
National Theatre, LondonTiago Rodrigues’s play has incensed audiences abroad with one character’s hellfire rightwing invective. But its combination of boredom and shocks ultimately feels confusing
#Theatre #Stage #NationalTheatre #Culture #Politicaltheatre #Thefarright #London #TheGuardian #ArifaAkbar
O Quel Cul T’as: The Pat, The Politics and The Perfectly Fake Marriage
In 1969, Kenneth Tynan named a nude revue after a French pun about a woman's backside. In 2026, the forty-seventh president of the United States provided the perfect sequel. The gesture lasted less than a second. The politics behind it have been building for decades.
‘The doorbell went at 5am. Six masked men were outside’: Belarus Free Theatre bring totalitarian terror to the Venice Biennale
They’ve been imprisoned, tortured and spied upon. Now dissidents from Europe’s last dictatorship are bringing the sights, sounds, smells and even tastes of brutal repression to the world’s biggest festival of art
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/28/belarus-free-theatre-venice-biennale
#ProtestArt #resistance #VeniceBiennale #ArtMatters #Art #PoliticalPrisoner #PerformanceArt #PoliticalTheatre
https://www.europesays.com/uk/881145/ Review: The High Life – The Musical, Festival Theatre Edinburgh #AlanCumming #AndrewPanton #BBCComedy #Britain #Comedy #Edinburgh #ForbesMasson #GlasgowTheatre #GreatBritain #HighLifeMusical #JohnnyMcKnight #LouiseMcCarthy #MusicalTheatre #Pantomime #PatrickRyecart #PoliticalTheatre #RachaelKendallBrown #revival #Scotland #ScottishCulture #ScottishTheatre #SiobhanRedmond #StageAdaptation #TheatreReview #UK #UnitedKingdom
Review: The High Life – The Musical, Festival Theatre Edinburgh
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#Edinburgh #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Scotland #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #AlanCumming #AndrewPanton #BBCcomedy #Britain #Comedy #ForbesMasson #Glasgowtheatre #GreatBritain #HighLifeMusical #JohnnyMcKnight #LouiseMcCarthy #MusicalTheatre #Pantomime #PatrickRyecart #politicaltheatre #RachaelKendallBrown #revival #Scottishculture #Scottishtheatre #SiobhanRedmond #stageadaptation #TheatreReview
https://www.europesays.com/uk/881145/
#callforproposals #callforpapers
XIII World Congress of the International University Theatre Association (AITU-IUTA) "University Theatre in the Time of Global Challenges"
8-13 July 2026
Vilinus University Vilnius, LTU
Deadline for proposals for theatre performances: 1 December 2025
Deadline for abstract submissions and workshop proposals: 1 January 2026
#performancestudies #performancestudiesinternational #universitytheatre #politicaltheatre
"Chinese analysts have been closely monitoring the #LosAngeles #unrest, which they said had been exploited by #US President Donald #Trump for #PoliticalTheatre, jeopardising public #safety and #stability. (..) Lacking diplomatic wins, Trump may pivot to harsher domestic tactics to assert strength, risking deeper #crises, according to Yang."
Err .. @EUCommission - seems you can't duck away from a public statement any more.
Or #China will voice "grave concern" first.
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Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92 https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/mar/09/athol-fugard-south-african-political-dissident-playwright-dies-aged-92 #Politicaltheatre #AtholFugard #SouthAfrica #Culture #Theatre #Africa #Stage
“theatrics... of a rather depraved sort.”
- Larry Summers, former U.S. treasury sec.
"Data … does not support Trump’s assertions.
According to reporting by the New York Times, U.S. CPB agents seized around 19 kg of fentanyl at the Canada-U.S. border in 2024.
That’s less than 0.2 % of what was seized at the U.S.-Mexico border the same year."
#politicalTheatre #trumpIsABully #opioidcrisis #usPolitics #tariffs
The GOP’s new motto: ‘If it’s broken, blame the Dems!’ Trump’s team is rewriting reality faster than you can fact-check, while Democrats are too busy licking their wounds to fight back. #AmericanNightmare #PoliticalTheatre https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-white-house-lies-immigration-economy
Found out about the #YesMen stunt from #BlissFoster's channel
https://www.bandt.com.au/adidas-in-comms-fluster-following-spoof-fashion-show-co-ceo-announcement
#Adidas #RealityWear a stunt by the Yes Men to expose the company's #exploitationoflabour, etc.
In the GoldbergTV vid, doesn't really get interesting before the 33.21 min. mark, and I haven't found video which shows all the interesting parts in one go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyE2AI94AqM
#clothes #FuckAdidas #Berlin2023 #fakefashionshow #politicaltheatre
‘I was brought up among giants’: Gillian Slovo on her revolutionary parents – and her mother’s murder https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/29/gillian-slovo-grenfell-tower-fire-new-york #GrenfellTowerinquiry #GrenfellTowerfire #Politicaltheatre #GillianSlovo #UStheater #Culture #Theatre #Stage
My cartoon in today's https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350192831/cartoon-tuesday-february-27
New law in force... no gang insignia (patches, emblems), no gang members meeting up, more than 3 will be shooed on...
We like to see the new government has its priorities in order... oh wait, the police took a step back from family violence calls and mental health calls...
#NzPol #Aotearoa #NewZealand #Government #Gangs #PoliticalTheatre #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #Editorial #Opinion #Police
Perfect little surprise in post this morning 📕 🤡 📚 ☕️ 😊
#clown #clowning #play #contemporary #contemporaryplay #theatre #théâtre #theater #performance #liveperformance #politics #political #politicaltheatre #authoritarianism #politicalart #art #artists #arts #culture #commentary #actor #actors #acting #actingtutor #tutor #director #directing #thursdaymotivation #thursdayvibes
As an Aussie #politicaljunkie currently glued to #CSpan, I have to say you Americans know how to do #politicaltheatre. This is t'rrific! https://www.c-span.org/video/?525203-9/house-votes-fourteenth-ballot&live
What a journey it’s been staging Ilya Kaminsky’s sensational #DeafRepublic ?! An honour to work with such exquisite poetry and create theatre that speaks so unwaveringly of the now. 🇺🇦
#theatre #theater #theatrelife #director #directing #acting #actorslife #DeafRepublic #IlyaKaminsky #kaminsky #poetry #poems #arts #culture #live #liveperformance #liveness #stage #rehearsals #studio #politics #Ukraine #political #politicaltheatre #contemporary #contemporarytheatre #creative
A visit to the #WashingtonPost's frontpage shows where their focus is – its on #Trump.
Six articles mention Trump while only three mention #Biden. Also, the three top stories are all about Trump.
Recorded/archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210622035640/https://www.washingtonpost.com/
We're really feeling it for all the people who work in #hospitality. They need to serve people in the community, but to do that they need to expose themselves to all manner of #viruses that could potentially render them incapacitated, like #exRoyalNews and #OprahFuckingWinfrey.
#politicalTheatre #identityPolitics #latestGossip #latestWheeze #tabloidTripe #elevation #meanwhileInTheMIC
@patricksudlow
Yes, sometimes we think the #UN exist merely for #politicalTheatre to pacify #academics and #geeks. A #lobotomising entity. Possibly even #controlledOpposition.
Its hard to know.