Reiner Werner Fassbinder "Bremer Freiheit"

Reiner Werner Fassbinder “Bremer Freiheit”

  From the interview in IEVA magazine   Why did you choose Fassbinder’s Bremen Freedom? I always loved Fassbinder’s work for the theater because it often speaks about social issues but doesn’t leave behind the human nature and he uses intense feelings and emotion to convey social injustice. This play caught my eye because a […]

Laura S. Černiauskaitė "Liucia skates"

Laura S. Černiauskaitė “Liucia skates”

Yana Ross Felix and Lucia are quite ordinary couple. They share happiness and boredom together, fight over toilet paper and spaghetti sauce. But when Lucia decides to leave Felix, he needs to confront his past and face his childhood traumas before he can fall in love with Lucia again. Beautiful, epic and non-linear contemporary family […]

Elfriede Jelinek "Bambiland"

Elfriede Jelinek “Bambiland”

Bambiland reviews April 2007 Illnesses and cure of the fairyland Yana Ross very inventively transformed a solid-monologue text into an epic play. She divided it between contrived characters and provided abstract sentences with concrete and secondary, subtle subtext meanings. A wife talks to her husband about cruise-missile when in fact she reproaches him for his “tomahawk” […]

Lola Arias "A Kingdom in the Snow"

Lola Arias “A Kingdom in the Snow”

Yana Ross Here’s what I loved about this play when I read it: it’s a fairy tale, a timeless story about human nature, our instincts to survive. The world these “characters” live in (and I’m putting the word in brackets as they are really archetypes and not characters, they are “larger-than-life” figures who represent the […]