Theatre - Bikya Masr

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest opens this week at American University in Cairo theatre

30 April 2012 | Comments (0)

CAIRO: The American University in Cairo’s AUC Theatre will conclude its mainstage season with Ken Kesey’s contemporary classic, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, in a stage adaptation by Dale Wasserman. Set in an Oregon mental hospital, the play examines the effect of institutions on the human mind, and triumphs in the ability of [...]

Egypt’s Sawy bans play over “foul language,” upsets rights community

25 April 2012 | Comments (2)

Egyptian freedom of expression advocates are in an uproar over the banning of a play over its alleged use of “foul language.” 24 rights movements issued a joint statement condemning al-Sawy Cultural Center in Cairo for banning the play “Mono-drama Auto bus” from showing at the center’s 7th Mono-drama theater festival taking place this month. [...]

Treaty of Waitangi to be examined through theater

25 October 2011 | Comments (0)

AUCKLAND: In a theatrical play, performance artists, Cat Ruka and Josh Rutter will examine the Treaty of Waitangi at Southside Arts Festival in Otara on October 28. Ruka is an award-winning choreographer and describes the piece as “a personal relationship onstage, where Josh and I use our bodies to explore extremities.” “We examine intricacies within [...]

Puppet performance in Darfur to educate on ordnances by UNAMID.

Darfur mission uses puppets to spread message about ordnance risks

30 September 2011 | Comments (0)

The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur (UNAMID) is using puppets to raise awareness among local schoolchildren about the dangers of interacting with unexploded ordnance (UXO). In a two-day workshop that concluded Thursday, staff with UNAMID’s ordnance disposal office taught puppetry skills to the local non-governmental organization (NGO) Friends of Peace and Development. [...]

The Palestine Freedom Theater is set to perform at Yale University next Wednesday.

The Palestinian Freedom Theater comes to Yale University

29 September 2011 | Comments (0)

CAIRO: The Yale School of Drama in Connecticut is hosting a performance by the Palestinian Freedom Theater this Wednesday October 5. The theater group hails from the outskirts of Jenin in the West Bank. They are well known within the region for their skilled dramatization of the taboos of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The presentation will [...]

Cairo's Mask Academy getting started this weekend.

The Mask Academy invites Cairo to the stage

22 September 2011 | Comments (0)

CAIRO: A Cairo duo, Inas Hassan and Sami Selim, are hosting classes for young Egyptian artists at The Mask Academy– a new space for the performing arts. Hassan and Selim are a dynamic pair. They are heavyweights in the world of drama, theatre and performance art. They both boast of prestigious sounding masters degrees, and [...]