Theatre
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Netherlands: The East’s “strawberry pickers” make the stage
14 September 20121134 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Theatre: New talent comes from the East
27 May 201171 Polityka Warsaw -
Theatre: Eight Gypsies and a play by Lorca
9 July 201083 El Correo Bilbao -
A town in Europe: Oberammergau, a passion for the Passion
2 June 201039 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Germany: Making a drama out of the crisis
27 August 2009251 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
Through a theatre performance about Eastern European migrants, a theatre maker in the southern Netherlands town of Zundert, with some 3,000 Eastern European labour migrants, hopes to bridge the divide between local inhabitants and the immigrants. 
Europe has lost six great names in the performing arts, but their succession is assured by a new generation of directors, most of whom hail from Central and Eastern Europe. 
Take eight illiterate gitanas to perform a play by the great Spanish poet. The point of this experiment in Seville is to take at least the barb of artistic exclusion out of social segregation: a subject of debate for the European Encounters series at the Avignon Summer Festival. 
For nearly four centuries, the inhabitants of this Bavarian village have performed a Passion Play every ten years to ward off the danger of the plague: a highly colourful event, which attracts tourists from all over the world. 
If there is one sector that is going strong in Germany and Austria in these days of dearth and doldrums, it is the theatre. The crisis furnishes a wealth of material for stage portrayals of human foibles and troubles in the grip of global capitalism.