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We are thrilled to announce that world-renowned violinist, educator and arts and culture advocate Nicola Benedetti CBE becomes the Director Designate of the Edinburgh International Festival, and will become Festival Director on 1 October 2022. In taking the role she will be both the first Scottish and the first female Festival Director since the Festival began in 1947.

The Adam Mickiewicz’s Dziady /The Forefathers’ Eve, directed by Maja Kleczewska at the Slowacki Theatre in Kraków, shortly after its premiere in November 2021 became the most debated theatrical event in Poland and, even more, the public enemy of Polish political power. An open letter signed by the Slowacki Theatre collective denounces the abusive dismissal of the theatre's director as a political reaction to the performance. Scena.ro publishes the open letter and supports Polish artists' resistance to political interference in art.

Since the outbreak of the Corona Pandemic, the Segal Theatre Center has presented a series of public talks during The Time of Corona with over 300 artists and institutions from over 50 countries. The aim of the initiatives presented were to introduce artistic projects and concepts that develop a new perspective on social and institutional developments in the field of art, especially performance art.

By publishing the following manifesto, Scena.ro magazine joins the international community in supporting the Belarus theatre community in their fight for the freedom of speech and against the abuses of the political power.

TheTheatreTimes.com’s International Online Theatre Festival is the second-place winner of the Culture Online International Award for “Best Online Project.” In 2021, a total of 452 projects were submitted from more than 20 countries.

Part of Staging Breast Cancer Trilogy, MIA is a multi-media installation in two parts, repeated symmetrically.

RESHAPE is an experimental, collaborative, bottom-up process that creates instruments for the transition towards a fairer arts ecosystem, more in tune with the evolution of society. At the heart of this research is a process involving 40 artists and art workers from across Europe and the Southern Mediterranean, engaged in collaborative work relating to major challenges of today’s arts sector.

Timelines turns to subjects that include the catastrophic imagination, cultural history, landscape and writing, as well issues of beauty, emotion, and the spiritual in art. Bonnie Marranca extends her longtime interests in theatre, visual arts, media, dance, and drama to the work of Joan Jonas, Caryl Churchill, Meredith Monk, Raimund Hoghe, Dick Higgins, Etel Adnan, and others in the thirty-four pieces in the volume from the last dozen years. A chapter entitled "Performance and Drawing" focuses on this special art practice. “Writing in the Landscape” explores new text and image approaches to short-form critical writing. There are also personal reflections on the recent loss of Carolee Schneemann, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sam Shepard.

IOTF is back! Now in its third year, this year’s festival showcases 33 global productions made and/or captured during lockdown as artists, theatres and audience adapted to the challenges of making work during the pandemic. As the move to digital spaces has shaped all our lives the possibilities of using this new online ‘space’ to engage audiences as ideas of the ‘live’ are refashioned.