Catherine Rosario
Contributing Writer
Cathy Rosario - Jay Hawkins
I am a London-based writer and playwright, currently working on two contemporary stage adaptations: William Shakespeare's Othello, and Homer's The Odyssey for the theatre company The Factory. I am also taking a practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, on nineteenth-century and postcolonial interpretations of Shakespeare's texts, and teaching their undergraduate course on contemporary women dramatists. I have given papers on my research in London, Berlin and Copenhagen.
Latest Articles
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Waving not Drowning: the Four Waves of Feminism
Here are the four waves of feminism in a nutshell.
Jan 23, 2012
- Catherine Rosario
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Devising Techniques: Embodying Character through 'Hot Staging'
Combining the technique of 'hot seating' with a compelling exercise used by French theatre director Jacques Lecoq, which draws on the Ancient Greek chorus.
Dec 1, 2011
- Catherine Rosario
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Review of Bound by Jesse Briton at the Southwark Playhouse
The haunting sea shanties sung by the men appear to force them to see their conflicted lives in romantic terms, and so act with insane recklessness.
Oct 10, 2011
- Catherine Rosario
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Gabriel Kuri: Before Contingency After The Fact
Gabriel Kuri's exhibition at the South London Gallery achieves its effect through colliding formal beauty with an over-burdened, anarchic content.
Oct 7, 2011
- Catherine Rosario
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Location, Location, Location (Series 14 TV Review)
Location, Location, Location gives us more insight into the intimate lives of others than the East German Stasi achieved with all their vast resources.
Oct 3, 2011
- Catherine Rosario
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Adorno and Horkheimer on the Enlightenment
Adorno and Horkheimer's seminal 1940s' Dialectic of Enlightenment expressed a profound despair at the West's perversion of Enlightenment values.
Sep 30, 2011
- Catherine Rosario
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Women Take to the Stage in Restoration Theatre
Womanizing King Charles II bans boys from playing female parts, deciding it's much more pleasant to watch beautiful women like Margaret Hughes.
Sep 27, 2011
- Catherine Rosario
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Not Now, Sweet Desdemona: a play by Murray Carlin
In this rewriting of Othello, Carlin suggests a way out of the psychological prison of a racist past.
Sep 26, 2011
- Catherine Rosario
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A Defiant Desdemona in Paula Vogel's Rewriting of Othello
Vogel's 1990s' play insists that the character of Shakespeare's original Desdemona was a mask, a performance forced upon her in order to survive.
Aug 29, 2011
- Catherine Rosario
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Pier Paolo Pasolini's Gospel According to St Matthew
The hallucinatory realism of Pasolini's film creates a deceptive effect of immediacy, of witnessing actual events as they unfold.
Aug 28, 2011
- Catherine Rosario
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