Special Topic
AGEISM AND/IN THEATRE
Guest Editors: Yun Cheol Kim (S. Korea) and Manabu Noda (Japan)
A Note from the Guest Editors
Manabu Noda and Yun Cheol Kim
Creating Dance with Elders, and How to See It: Company of Elders in the World Gold Theatre Festival
Katsuhiko Sakaguchi
Countering Ageism and Eugenics in Theatre
Akiko Tachiki
Age and Politics in Early American Drama
Zoe Detsi
Dance and Age
Margareta Sörenson
Insupportable vieillesse ?
Jean-Pierre Han
To Become Merged in the Sea . . . or On Old Women on Stage
Soila Lehtonen
Age on Stage
Nancy Westman
Reminiscence Drama in an Ageing World
Katerina Kosti
La vie des personnes âgées à l’époque néo-libérale
Jisoo Nam
Essays
MULTILINGUAL PERFORMANCE AND MIGRATION
Editor: Yana Meerzon (Canada)
Introductory Words
Yana Meerzon
City Narratives in European Performances of Crisis: The Examples of Athens and Nicosia
Avra Sidiropoulou
A Case Study of the Intercultural Production of Väike Jumalanna (The Little Goddess)
Izumi Ashizawa
The Drama(turgy) of Non-Belonging: Jeroen Coppens in Dialogue with Motus on Sharing Identity in Panorama
Jeroen Coppens and Motus
Seeking the Other: Staging the Paroxysms of Orientalism
Yana Meerzon
No Woman’s Land: Walking as a Dramaturgical Device in Performance of Maternal Migration
Rosie Garton and Ildikó Rippel
On Dramaturgy of Care and Encounter in the Theatres of Multilingualism: Interview with Ayham Majid Agha
Yana Meerzon
Movement through Language: A Reflection on the Use of Spoken Text in Dance Performances
Rosa Lambert
National Reports
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
German Theatre: Interventions and Transformations
Azadeh Sharifi
Modern Scottish Theatre: Emerging from the Shadow of the Reformation
Mark Brown
Theatre in Malta: Amateur Practice and Professional Aspirations
Vicki Ann Cremona
Italian Theatre Today: Not a System, and so Many Transformations
Roberto Canziani
Theatre at the Crossroads: Trends and Challenges of Georgian Theatre Today
Natalia Tvaltchrelidze
Conference Papers
Editor: Ivan Medenica (Serbia)
Counterpublics Cause so Much Trouble: Oliver Frljić, Protest & Collectivity
Bryce Lease
Season of Discontent to “Seasons of Love”: Broadway Musicals in a Time of #MeToo
Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
Feigning Ignorance as a Way of Tolerating the Intolerable: Stage Scene in Japan 2017
Manabu Noda
Interviews
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
American Theatre Now: Interview with Carlos Morton
Katerina Delikonstantinidou
At the End of the Day, an Actor: Interview with Tiago Rodrigues
Rui Pina Coelho
Performance Reviews
Editor: Matti Linnavuori (Finland)
Let’s Start Love Over in Belgrade
Tina Perić
Dance in the Forest, an Example of Immersive Theatre
Manuel Garcia Martinez
Cotillion of Loss: Summoning August Wilson’s African American Century
Lissa Tyler Renaud
Jacinto Benavente relance la Commedia dell’arte au Canada
Alvina Ruprecht
Sankara, héros tragique
Selim Lander
Ariadne’s Stage Metamorphosis in Buenos Aires
Halima Tahan
Macbettu: Immersing in the “Hollow Crown”
Penelope Chatzidimitriou
Men Punish Women in Pilsen
Matti Linnavuori
All Puppets, Large and Small—in Québec and the Czech Republic
Mark Brown
Book Reviews
Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)
The Theatrical Career of Samuel Morgan Smith
Robin Breon
Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality
Sky Gilbert
The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare
Luke Prodromou
Contre le théâtre politique
Selim Lander
Critics on Criticism
Criticism on the Critical List: Just a Canadian Issue?
Robin Breon and Don Rubin
Critics should never say in writing what they cannot dare to say to the subject in person: Interview with Ian Herbert
Savas Patsalidis
“With age, I get more tolerant of failure”: Interview with Michael Billington
Mark Fisher