Silke Felber* Human categorizations, which are based on dominant differences such as ethnicity, national and religious affiliation and gender, are used to distinguish people from one another, or to subsume them into social collectives according to the characteristics they share.
Yana Meerzon* and Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe** Introduction Any person coming to Germany who is persecuted politically or in another way in their home country (as in Syria by the terror militia of the so-called “Islamic State”) has the right to be
Katrin Sieg* Germany received over a million asylum seekers in 2015, and for one halcyon moment last summer, basked in the international community’s admiration of its “welcome culture.” Cultural institutions there played an active part in spurring public discussions concerning
Jamie H. Trnka** Beneath the stark lighting of the black box theatre in Stockholm’s Kulturhuset, actor Per Burell walks from his seat on stage left to the center podium to read the testimony of Kenan, a 45-year-old father of five
Jonas Tinius* But can the untranslatable be voiced at all? How to articulate the leftover inexpressibles of translation? Is it perhaps to be glimpsed in a back-to-front crazy word, an image’s shimmer, the flick of a gesture, the intimacies of
By Edward Ziter 259 pp. UK: Palgrave Macmillan Reviewed by Marjan Moosavi* (Iran/Canada) Edward Ziter’s Political Performance in Syria is a major contribution to scholarship on political theatre in a specifically Muslim Middle Eastern context. It delivers many fresh perspectives
By Octavian Saiu 235 pp. Bucharest: Institutul Cultural Roman (in English) Reviewed by Patricia Keeney* (Canada) The madness of Hamlet has become the madness of the world, according to Romanian critic and scholar Octavian Saiu. That is, the sixteenth century
By Patricia Kokori 289 pp. Athens: Nefeli Reviewed by Katerina Delikonstantinidou* Yet another volume on Beckett, this one professing to respond to the apparently ever-relevant “aesthetic radicalism” of the great Irish dramatist and to the demand for “the invention of
Edited by Honor Ford-Smith 283 pp. Kingston: Paul Issa Publications Reviewed by Alvina Ruprecht* (Canada) Honor Ford-Smith is an actor, director, poet, playwright and socially-engaged Jamaican-born artist. A theoretician of post-colonial theatre as well, she is intimately aware of the
Edited by S. E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė 253 pp. UK: Palgrave Macmillan Reviewed by Will Daddario* (USA) Deleuze and Beckett is the second anthology curated by S. E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė in recent years. Thinner and narrower in