Culture

The premiere of the play The World of Yesterday, based on the novel by Stefan Zweig and directed by Anna Ostrovskaya, was performed at the Camden Fringe Festival. The enormous, very complex novel by Zweig has been transformed by Anna…

Anya Ostrovskaya is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has several performances to her credit, recognized both by critics and with awards. At the Camden Fringe festival, Anya and her team will present a new work,…

Critics have heralded Carlos Reygadas as the “third wave of Mexican cinema in one person,” positioning him as a successor to Buñuel and Jodorowsky. Initially destined for diplomacy after studying at an English college and working at the European Commission,…

We know from global theatre history that every country made its cultural contribution to the vivid and exciting development of the art over the years. From ancient drama to the theatre of the Absurd, the actors mediate changes in the…

Healthy Junkies, the long-standing alternative punk band from London, have released Favourite Place, a new single preceding their much-anticipated new album, Listen To The Mad, due to be released everywhere on Friday, 22nd November by Banana Castle Records.

The Atlantic landscape, with its sandy dunes, fishing boats, white cliffs, and wind-combed heather—a scene both picturesque and harsh. “On picturesqueness and harshness” aptly describes Bruno Dumont’s “Slack Bay,” where two facets of the human soul suffer equally: the aristocratic…

On July 19, the Salzburg Festival, one of the world’s leading theater festivals, opened.It will run until the end of August.The program director of this year’s drama section is theater critic, historian, director, and playwright Marina Davydova. Nastya Tomskaya spoke…

Transporting the viewer to the legendary premises of the Cinecittà studio near Rome, “Finally Dawn” nostalgically harks back to the 1950s. The narrative unfolds with a classic setup of a Cinderella-like transformation in a fairy-tale world: accompanying her sister to…

At the “Ricochets” exhibition at the Barbican Centre, the rational questions of “why” and “what for,” often tethered to contemporary art practices, are jauntily supplanted by the phenomenon of play—an eternally youthful and invariably captivating pursuit. Through his global journeys,…