Graz Annual Playwrights’ Festival 2022: Day Two

Graz theatre festival: Theatre across borders

As Himali Kothari gets to know plays and playwrights from around the world, she is struck by the lack of cross-pollination in the field of theatre.

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Iraq: An ancient city emerges from the water in archaeology sensation

Iraq’s extreme drought give German and Kurdish archaeologists a chance to examine a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age city.

Graz Annual Playwrights’ Festival 2022: Day One

Schauspielhaus Graz: Climate change, playwrights, and their lonely lives

Himali Kothari narrates how her playlet Friends for Life came to feature in the ongoing Graz theatre festival on climate change in Graz, Austria.

A poem of its moment

The significance of ‘The Waste Land’, which turns 100 this year, and T.S. Eliot’s oeuvre and continuing appeal. By Tabish Khair

This Oscar-nominated documentary delves into the art of darkness

Danish film-maker Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s ‘Flee’ is a complex and moving story about refugees, with Afghanistan as its background.

Satyajit Ray wrote 52 letters to ‘Jana’ over 16 years. Who was she?

An ongoing exhibition reveals yet another facet of Satyajit Ray, that of prolific letter writer, which opens a window into the uniquely vibrant mind o

Jana Natya Manch: 50 years of performing resistance

The street plays of Jana Natya Manch, the Delhi-based theatre group that turned 50 this year, remind us how a culture of open, free, and public perfor

Sudhanva Deshpande

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