The troupe of the Éclaireurs of the Théâtre National de Nice, led by Irina Brook, visited the OGC Nice Training Center to perform the play “DREAM!” by Shakespeare. A play
Irina Brook is stepping down. At the helm of the Théâtre National de Nice since 2014, the director has chosen to end her second term early in order to find,
For the upcoming fourth edition of the annual Shakespeare festival, TNN and OGC Nice are teaming up for an unlikely match. The winner? Everyone. At first glance, theatre and sports
This new production from the Nice-based theatre company entrusts Irina Brook, a woman of the city’s own theatre, with the task of reinterpreting the myth of the lovers of Verona
“JULIET AND ROMEO,” playing at the Gémier Hall of the Théâtre de Chaillot, is a highly original version of Shakespeare’s work. Under this inverted title, Irina Brook stages the world’s
I don’t yet know what we’re going to do with this extraordinary play. But with a group of young actors from diverse backgrounds, music and songs, dance, a few raps,
“Shakespeare is more than just a classic author. Exceptional humanity and philosophy emanate from his texts. His plays are as popular as they are profound!” exclaims Irina Brook, director of the
Irina Brook did it again – sprinkling her magic over Shakespeare’s mythic tragedy in an unexpected and contemporary exploration through the prism of imagination and metatheatre. Had William Shakespeare and
A new production brings together the diptych Die sieben Todsünden and Mahagonny Songspiel, performed for the first time in an empty theatre during the pandemic, and the new The Songs
Irina Brook’s Brecht–Weill triptych at La Scala confronts our broken world through recycled glamour and bitter song The glamour is seductive. The rhythm infectious. But the mirror is unforgiving. In
After wowing Nice, Irina Brook’s rock & roll version of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt is making cool Londoners swoon before it’s back at the TNN next week. Ever since the 2014/15
The Theatre National de Nice bring their fiercely fresh English language adaptation of Peer Gynt to London Peer Gynt reinvented as a preening, booze-fuelled stadium rock god in existential free-fall?
Would Shakespeare have recognized his “Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Irina Brook’s spirited and brilliant adaptation entitled “Waiting for the Dream”? I think there is no doubt that he would, even
Rossini’s delectable comedy La Cenerentola has not been a frequent guest in Stockholm. Fragments of it was performed four times in 1843 but then she was unseen and unheard until
Le Tout Vienne is currently under the spell of Irina Brook’s version of the famous Donizetti opera. And on May 8, le Tout Nice will be, too. Since taking over
Gaetano Donizetti’s humorous opera Don Pasquale, with its sweet melodies and beautiful arias, is a piece that even people who are not very interested in opera can enjoy. I personally
Irina Brook’s inspired and colourfully updated Don Pasquale has enjoyed annual revivals since its initiation in April 2015 with a fair selection of significant newcomers, often augmented – as on
In 1893, there was an eclipse of the moon in Turkey. The Armenian population looked on in bemusement as the Turks, determined to kill the creature that must be causing
Irina Brook directs a new production combining The Seven Deadly Sins, Mahagonny and Happy End. Three fragments by Brecht and Weill are stitched together to tell the story of a theatre company that continues
The futuristic play concocted by the great Italian author Stefano Massini for Generation Y is riddled with question marks. What will the world of tomorrow look like? Let me tell
