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‘Europe is in a dangerous place’: Theatre Olympics staged against a backdrop of war

Festival curtain rises to debate – and discontent – over the role of drama, censorship and Russian artists

The Guardian - UK

Schmigadoon!: darker musical influences make season two a more complex, but satisfying watch

Warning: the following article contains spoilers for Schmigadoon! series one and two.

The Conversation

The Good Person of Szechwan at the Lyric Hammersmith review: slick, kitsch and buckets of fun

There’s a distinctive feel to Lyric Hammersmith shows that’s like nothing you’ll find at other London theatres

Evening Standard

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Canberra festival with a child's heart

The Director of the Canberra International Music Festival fizzes with enthusiasm

The Canberra Times

The Good Person of Szechwan review – Brecht’s parable gets a bold revamp

Anthony Lau brings rich cultural authenticity to the stinging China-set capitalist critique – as well as slides and giant frogs

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Decision; The Dream of Gerontius; Soloists of the CBSO – review

Birmingham Opera Company regroup, and the CBSO triumph in Elgar’s great oratorio as the city’s rich musical life thrives. And shock and anger as the BBC Singers are axed

The Guardian - UK

The Decision review – didactic, two-dimensional and dramatically obvious

Bertolt Brecht’s tale of four agitators dispatched from Soviet Russia to foment revolution in pre-communist China is almost a parody of previous Birmingham Opera Company productions

The Guardian - UK

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Jean-Marie Straub obituary

French film-maker who challenged the primacy of narration and orthodox notions of realism

The Guardian - UK

‘Eclectic range’ of first-timers come together in Doncaster Brecht update

National and Cast theatres assemble diverse Doncastrians who just ‘would not have met any other way’

The Guardian - UK

Appreciation: The radical majesty of British theater director Peter Brook

I've been fortunate to have met a number of geniuses in my years as a theater critic but only one who was a true sage.

Los Angeles Times

An ever innovative director, Peter Brook reminded us how high the stakes of theatre can be

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

The Conversation

Will News Corp change its approach after Labor's election win? Not if the US example is anything to go by

In 1953, the Communist East German regime quashed a widespread uprising and afterwards admonished the protesters, saying the government had lost confidence in the people. In a famous satirical poem, left-wing author Bertolt Brecht said that, if so, perhaps the government could dissolve the people and elect a new lot.

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