Macbeth After Shakespeare – The Worlds’ Best Theater of 2011
Posted December 22, 2011 at 11:22 am
by Randy Gener, randygenerlive.blogspot.com
NEW YORK CITY: The arts-and-culture magazine in the theater of One World announces its top-10 picks for the world’s best theater of 2011. Click here to read the article.
At the top of the hierarchical list are Radio Muezzin (Germany/Egypt), a documentary work by the Swiss director Stefan Kaegi; Macbeth After Shakespeare (Slovenia/Croatia), staged by Ivica Buljan; and David Henry Hwang’s Broadway play Chinglish, which originated at the Goodman Theatre of Chicago.
Of Radio Muezzin, the global roundup, “My picks for the world’s best theater of 2011, states” “You might say that Radio Muezzin stages a Western country’s (Germany’s) attempt to promote diverse Egyptian voices abroad. It is also about the Egyptian government’s decision to use technology to silence individual voices. In Sarajevo [where Gener saw this documentary theater]…, it was about the triumph of a group of passionate muezzins to perform the story of their lives despite the decision of one of their own to almost sabotage Kaegi’s outstanding show.”