Internationalist Theatre is a London theatre company founded by South African Greek actress Angelique Rockas in September 1980. The company was originally named New Internationalist Theatre, with an intention to pursue an internationalist approach in its choice of plays as well as "a multi-racial drama policy, with an even mix of performers drawn from different cultural groups", The Stage, April 1981.
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The theatre has received coverage from stage papers around the world. It received charity status in 1986.
Performances
The Internationalist Theatre has put on plays by Jean Genet (The Balcony), Griselda Gambaro (The Camp), Brecht (Mother Courage and Her Children), Luigi Pirandello (Liolà), Tennessee Williams (In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel), August Strindberg (Miss Julie) and Maxim Gorky (Enemies). Their critical reception was generally favourable, although not universally. Time Out magazine disliked their production of Mother Courage: "the casting only inspires a whole host of irreverent questions: what on earth, say, is an American sergeant doing in seventeenth century Europe? And how did a Pakistani chaplain get into the Swedish army?" an example of the resistance to diversity casting at this point of time to a theatre first of a multi-racial Mother Courage production. The Pakistani actor referred to by Malcolm Hay was the veteran Asian Parsi actor Renu Setna. The Financial Times found Liolà`s multi-national casting problematic: "do we really need this peculiar medley of Italian accents for the English premiere? The problem is compounded by the commitment ... to a multi-national cast ... English, German, Sicilian, and Italian actors produce widely differing versions of the Latin lilt"
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See also
References
External links
- Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv Akademie der Künste Mother Courage and Her Children
- The records of Internationalist Theatre, London, 1983-1985; New Internationalist Theatre, London, 1981-1982 are held by the British Library.
- Archived 2020-11-19 at the Wayback Machine Index to Pirandello Studies, University of Dublin , Vol 3 (1983), Liola p. 100-102
- [1] Practitioner focus: Angelique Rockas | Drama And Theatre
- [2] Internationalist Theatre in Academia.edu
