Critical Stages/Scènes critiques

Table of Contents

Special Topic I: Theatre and Performing Arts in Contemporary China: Promises and Challenges

Section Guest Editors: Peng Tao, Danfeng Meng and Zhu Ning (China) (Assistant Editor: Savas Patsalidis)

Introductory Note

by Peng Tao, Chinese Theatre

Theatre Limits and Possibilities in Contemporary China: Interview with Lin Zhaohua and Guo Shixing

by Lin Xiyue & Meng Danfeng & Peng Tao, Chinese Theatre

“In China, directors are considered more highly than playwrights”: Interview with Stan Lai

by Savas Patsalidis, Chinese Theatre

Transforming Techniques, Transforming Relationships: Interview with Actor-Director Ding Yiteng

by Lissa Tyler Renaud, Chinese Theatre

Chinese Theatre since 1980

by Lin Kehuan, Chinese Theatre

Traditional Chinese Theatre Today

by Fu Jin, Chinese Theatre

Contemporary Chinese Dance: The Interweaving of Tradition and Modernity

by Min Zhu, Chinese Theatre

Moving Forward: An Essay on How to Contemporize the Traditional Chinese Theater without Severing the Tradition

by Elias Edström, Chinese Theatre

Chinese Directors: The New Generation

by Xi Muliang and Annie Feng, Chinese Theatre

Between Tradition and the Contemporary: An Exploration of Chinese Scenic Designers

by Zhao Yan, Chinese Theatre

The Interpretation and Misinterpretation of the Verfremdungs effect on the Modern Xiqu Stage

by Chen Lin, Chinese Theatre

Noises from the “Other” and the “Above”: An Alternative Reading of “Yellow Peril” in The Humans

by Bindi Kang, Chinese Theatre

The Adaptation of Shakespeare into Chinese Xiqu

by Zhu Ning, Chinese Theatre

Chinese Shadows on Swedish Stages

by Margareta Sörenson, Chinese Theatre

Where Τhere Ιs Theatre, Τhere Ιs Hope: Interview with Elizabeth Wong

by Savas Patsalidis, Chinese Theatre

Special Topic II: The Question That Won’t Go Away

Section Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)

Introduction
The Question That Won’t Go Away:
Did the Man From Stratford Really Write the Plays?

by Don Rubin, Special Topic

Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance: Reasonable Doubt about the Identity of William Shakespeare

by Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, Special Topic

A Theatre Artist’s Path:
Questioning Shakespeare’s Authorship

by Keir Cutler, Special Topic

What’s the Question in Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography?

by Diana Price, Special Topic

Transforming Productions of Shakespeare’s Plays

by Gary Goldstein, Special Topic

Shakespeare as Lawyer
Hamlet: Death, Property, and the Pursuit of Justice

by Thomas Regnier, Special Topic

The Argument for Edward de Vere: “Shake-speare” Was a Man of the Theatre

by Hank Whittemore, Special Topic

Pourquoi ‘John Florio, alias Shakespeare’ ?

by Michel Vaïs, Special Topic

An Interview with Mark Rylance
“It’s important to know how great works of theatre are made”

Special Topic

Essays

Section Editor: Yun-Cheol Kim (S. Korea)

Conflicting Nations, Conversing Individuals in Lola Arias’s Minefield

by Elizabeth Sakellaridou, Essays

Le théâtre et l’Esprit du temps

by Georges Banu, Essays

The Art of Criticism: Sharing the Theatre Experience

by Don Rubin, Essays

The Confessions of a Failed Educator

by Yun-Cheol Kim, Essays

National Reports

Section Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)

(Re)Viewing Bulgarian Theatre of Today

by Kamelia Nikolova, National Reports

Contemporary Finnish Theatre: Disruption and Expanding Fields

by Hanna Helavuori, National Reports

Malaysia’s Theatre and its Circuit of Culture

by Benny Lim and Chua Lian Choon, National Reports

12 Seconds to the Year of Theatre

by Emiliia Dementsova, National Reports

Interviews

Section Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)

The Time of Our Lives: Interview with Bonnie Marranca

by Savas Patsalidis, Interviews

Theater, Philosophy, Literature: A Field of Tension. Interview with Professor Martin Puchner

by Eylem Ejder, Interviews

Making Theatre Ιnside and Οutside Turkey under Erdoğan: Interview with Murat Daltaban

by Mark Brown, Interviews

Making Theatre Between the Desert and the Sea: Interview with Shay Pitowsky

by Shai Bar Yaacov, Interviews

Performance Reviews

Section Editor: Matti Linnavuori (Finland)

Putin on the Ritz in St. Petersburg

by Barry Gaines, Performance Reviews

Timişoara Festival Pierces through Past and Future Nationalisms

by Matti Linnavuori, Performance Reviews

Un spectacle d’une malsaine ambiguïté

by Jean-Pierre Han, Performance Reviews

Almada’s Theatre Fiesta: A Public Affair or an Affair with the Public

by Katerina Delikonstantinidou, Performance Reviews

Le Tartuffe déjanté d’Oskaras Koršunovas

by Selim Lander, Performance Reviews

Discovering Minsk through Belarusian Theatre

by Maria Zărnescu, Performance Reviews

How to Organize a Bridge between National and International

by Mehrdad Rayani-Makhsous, Performance Reviews

Comment inventer demain ?

by Camille Khoury, Performance Reviews

Of Mothers and Warriors

by Patricia Keeney, Performance Reviews

Magic Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Mightiest One of All?

by Soila Lehtonen, Performance Reviews

Mr. Muhsin’s Memory of Hamlet Rewrites the History of Turkey’s Theatre

by Eylem Ejder, Performance Reviews

Book Reviews

Section Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)

Gigi Căciuleanu: The Dance Man

Book Reviews, by Călin Ciobotari

Shakespeare’s Wilderness

Book Reviews, by Patricia Keeney

Albertine, en cinq temps de Michel Tremblay : Genèse et mise en scène
Édition génétique et étude

Book Reviews, by Alvina Ruprecht

Le théâtre d’ Aimé Césaire : Ides et Calendes

Book Reviews, by Selim Lander

Protest Choirs: A New Aesthetics of Resistance

Book Reviews, by Natascha Siouzouli

Thalia Prize

Introducing Hans-Thies Lehmann

Thalia Prize

Initial Thoughts on the Curious Case of Postdramatic Theatre in the Indian Context

by Deepa Punjani, Thalia Prize

A Brief Overview of Postdramatic Theatre and its Contribution to Independent Chinese Theatre

by Peng Tao, Thalia Prize

Tribute to Professor Hans-Thies Lehmann on the Occasion of His Investiture as the 2018 IATC Thalia Laureate

by Emmanuel S. Dandaura, Thalia Prize

Thalia Prize 2018 Acceptance Speech By Professor Hans-Thies Lehmann

Thalia Prize