International Culture Lab

Theater Production Blog

Category: Theatre and Culture

Translating the Story

December 4, 2008December 6, 2008Current Production, Theatre and CultureNo Comments

International Culture Lab’s production of Outside Inn had traveled through many incarnations to its Off-Broadway premiere. The University of Pittsburgh, ICL and Theater Rampe Stuttgart originally commissioned playwright Andreas Jungwirth to create a text to serve as a vehicle to […]

The Last Rat Conference Comes Home Again

July 26, 2008July 27, 2008Performance Techniques, Theatre and CultureNo Comments

The RAT Conference from 1994-2004 was the single most transforming element of our theatre ensemble’s history. Our present day aesthetic and ethic developed directly from that ten-year collaboration with other theatre companies and individuals from around the country and the […]

Dramaturgy and PR

June 9, 2008June 13, 2008Current Production, Theatre and CultureNo Comments

Plays are part and parcel of their productions. Zeitgeist, site-specific elements and the actor/producer’s explicit talents and ambitions all inform the reality. Does the “event” of the production have any historical importance to theatre or the world? The “audience” of […]

Awake From Your Slumber!

March 15, 2008March 15, 2008Current Production, Theatre and CultureNo Comments

Our current project with Theater Rampe Stuttgart in Germany commissioned a new script from Austrian author Andreas Jungwirth. Outside Inn examines how capitalism has infiltrated into the most personal parts of our lives. In the passage below the character Paul, […]

Contextualizing, Editing, Censoring

March 11, 2008March 12, 2008Theatre and CultureNo Comments

The Playgoer is worried that “Rachel Corrie” Buffered in Beantown may be pointing to a troublesome trend developing in theatre. He his talking about the “contextualization” of the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie by the New Repertory Theatre in […]

Chicago Storefront Theatre Model

March 2, 2008March 15, 2008Arts Funding, Theatre and Culture1 Comment

If even Slay is not up to the task of summarizing the proposals and calls for change that has had the theatrosphere vibrating over the last few weeks, you know that the conversation is as complex he claims it is. […]

How Theatre Will Save America

February 6, 2008February 8, 2008Theatre and CultureNo Comments

If you browse through our history at International Culture Lab you will understand why we are excited that Scott at Theatre Ideas has decided to put the rubber to the road in building an alternative national theatre model. For the […]

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