French protesters occupied three national theatres on Wednesday to demand an end to the ban on cultural activities imposed due to the pandemic as frustration grows with the months-long halt to performances, AFP reported.

France emerges from its second Covid-19 lockdown on Tuesday. But with new daily coronavirus infections still high above the government's 5,000-a-day objective, the easing will not look like it did in May. An 8pm-to-6am curfew goes into effect, except for Christmas Eve, and cultural venues remain closed, sparking anger in the sector, news wires reported.

The art of humour is a peculiar thing, especially when it is publicly displayed. It is a difficult and very responsible matter. Humour has different dimensions - sincere, biting, vicious, sarcastic… Pulling these invisible threads, which cause theatre audiences to laugh, is a specific thing and a part of our job is to catch them. The nature of humour is such that it originates very often from the juxtaposition of paradoxical and unexpected twists, says stage director Andrey Avramov in an interview to Europost.

I really love black and white cinematography and I think it is appropriate for such a rough story to be dressed in a black and white narration. There is a special aesthetic in it, which I personally like very much, Bulgarian actor and director prof. Ivaylo Hristov says in an interview to Monitor.

Researchers at Charles University, Svanda Theater and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague are currently working on an intriguing research project that merges artificial intelligence and robotics with theater. Dubbed, THEaiTRE, the project's main objective is to use AI to create an innovative theatrical performance, which is expected to premiere in January 2021.

Albanian police on Sunday clashed with opposition supporters who were protesting the demolition of the country's National Theater building in the capital of Tirana, news wires reported. Police pulled a group of artists and some opposition leaders away from the building before heavy machinery started to bring it down.

The 30th anniversary since the creation of Dialogue, the first private theatre in Bulgaria's modern history, was marked with the production Antichrist. Some 20 other attempts to start private theatre companies have failed spectacularly over the years. Today, the concept of an argumentative, even contrarian style of making theatre with unique aesthetics is being kept alive by New Theatre - NDK, says director Boyko Iliev in an interview with EUROPOST.