Editorial Note
Savas Patsalidis, Editor-in-Chief
Special Topic
The Theatricality of Music, the Musicality of Theatre
Guest Editor: Octavian Saiu (Romania)
The New Soundscape of Global Culture: Editorial Note
Octavian Saiu
Ideology and Machines in the Work of Richard Wagner
Themelis Glynatsis
Interaction Between Music and Theatre in Identity Processes: Croatian Example
Iva Hraste-Sočo
Broadway Rap Battles and the Crisis of Historicity: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton
Konstantinos Blatanis
Opera of Postmodernism and New Challenges of Opera Critiсism
Irina Yaskevitch
Notes on Light: The Musicality of Light and Theatre
Amy Chan
In Pursuit of the Musical Image: Imagining the Soundscape of Wild Man
Xing Fan
Transforming the Dark: Using Colour to Compose Sound in Dark Matter
Martyn Roberts and Jeremy Mayall
Musicality in Simon Stephens’ Plays
Brigitte Bogar
Theatre for Sounds and Souls; or, The Polish Song of the Goat and Its Quest into the Impossible
Kalina Stefanova
La musique live et la fêlure des mots
Georges Banu
Essays
Mediating Performance Experiences
Editor: Yana Meerzon (Canada)
Introductory Words
Yana Meerzon
Making Community in the Age of Migration: What Is the Role of Social Media in Contemporary Theatre
Janne Cleveland
Paradigm Shift: Making Theatre with Social Media
Danielle Le Saux-Farmer
“It’s Everyday, Bro”: YouTube, “Authenticity,” and the Psychopathology of Late Capitalism
Chris Eaket
“Siri, Are You Female?”: Reinforcing and Resisting Gender Norms with Digital Assistants
Kimberley McLeod
temping: On Technological Immersion, Surveillance and Existential Angst in One-to-One Performances: Yana Meerzon and Michael Rau in Dialogue
Yana Meerzon and Michael Rau
The Spiritual Reformation of Theatrical Practice: Interculturalism and the Modern Times Stage Company
Peter Farbridge
On Migration towards Europe. Simple as ABC#3: The Wild Hunt by Thomas Bellinck
Garcia Martinez Manuel
The Live History Company, Museum Theatre, “Four Spectators” and “That Guy”: A Complex Relationship
Rick Cousins
Children’s Plays in Iran: Iranian Culture or Homogenous Society?
Bahee Hadaegh and Zeinab Karimi
Art World Authenticities: Postmodern Curators, Creators and Performers
Dena Davida
National Reports
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Living Through Changes: Mongolian Theatre
Batsaikhan Dashdondog
Theatre in Montenegro: An Unfinished Cultural Transition
Maja Mrđenović
Le théâtre au Maroc, état des lieux
Baker Saddiki
Interviews
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Performing Outdoors: About Aesthetics and Ideology: An Interview with Joan Font
Mercè Saumell
Conscious and Safe: Α Values-lead Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: An Interview with Jovana Karaulić
Tina Perić
Le chemin continue : Entretien avec Data Tavadzé
Irina Gogobéridzé
Performance Reviews
Editor: Matti Linnavuori (Finland)
Russian Theatre Before the Crash
Christine Matvienko
Dostoevsky and Whitman: The Murder and the Miracle
Lissa Tyler Renaud
The Jukebox Reimagined: New Musicals Pump Fresh Blood into a Tired Genre
Martin Morrow
Playing with Disaster
Patricia Keeney
On the Hungarian Border of Illuminating and Alienating
Cole J. Stern
Time, Chance and Space: Stan Lai’s Newest Work, Ago
Yu Kuo-Hua
A Town Remembered and Recreated
Maria Zărnescu
L’écriture d’une vie
Jean-Pierre Han
L’art de camper Copi
Camille Khoury
An Absurd Night in a Georgian Hotel
Marina (Maka) Vasadze
Nora. The Big Exit
Penelope Chatzidimitriou
Tomorrow’s Theatre! Maybe
Steve Capra
Germany During the Crash
Matti Linnavuori
Book Reviews
Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)
Staging Postcommunism: Alternative Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe After 1989
Don Rubin
Theatre Blogging: The Emergence of a Critical Culture
Mark Fisher
A Century of South African Theatre
Temple Hauptfleisch
Koffi Kwahulé
Selim Lander
Pip Utton and his Masks/ Pip Utton I jegoMaski
Don Rubin
Critics on Criticism
Bugged (Critics, Criticism and Critical Categories)
Don Rubin
COVID-19
COVID-19 and its Impact on the Performing Arts: a Survey
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
A Pandemic Theatre “Album” of First Reactions: Αn Introduction
Savas Patsalidis
Theatre and Epidemics: An Age-Old Link
Maria Ristani
ARGENTINA: “Never Abandon the Theatre, Even in the Toughest Situations”
Halima Tahan F.
CANADA: Working through the Cracks
Carly Maga
CZECH REPUBLIC: Austerity of Movement and Theatre on Screen
Martina Pecková Černá, Michal Zahálka, Jana Návratová
ENGLAND: March and April were the Cruellest Months
John Causebrook and John Elsom
GEORGIA: In Search of New Forms and Ideas
Natalia Tvaltchrelidze
GREECE: Being Active with Theatres Closed
Irene Moundraki, Leandros Polenakis & Thanos Madzanas
HONG KONG: Our Passion Will Go On, Even If the Shows Cannot
Bernice Chan
INDIA: Pandemic: A Vulnerable Time for Artists
Deepa Punjani
JAPAN: Theatre is Life
Ken’ichi Yamamoto
LATVIA: All the World’s a Screen
Lauma Mellēna-Bartkeviča
MARTINIQUE : Cahiers de confinement
Janine Bailly
MEXICO: Theatre in Intensive Care
Lorena Meeser
POLAND: Internet-theatre and Insufficient State Support for the Artists
Tomasz Miłkowski
QUEBEC (CANADA) : Au Québec, grogne et résilience des artistes
Raymond Bertin
ROMANIA: Theatre is Always Alive
Octavian Saiu, Oltita Cintec
RUSSIA: Rethinking Communication Strategies
Alexandra Dunaeva
SLOVAKIA: Virtual Centenary of Slovak Theatre
Zuzana Ulicianska
SOUTH AFRICA: Devastating Effects
Gaerin Hauptfleisch and Temple Hauptfleisch
SOUTH KOREA: Out of Crisis Arises Opportunity
Um Hyun Hee
SWEDEN: The Future Uncertain within the Independent Field
Theresa Bener
TAIWAN: Crisis or Chance: Theatre in Difficult Times
Hung Tzi-Yu
ΤURKEY: “Hope is in People, Hope is in Us”
Ragıp Ertuğrul
UNITED STATES: Live from the United States, It’s Social Distancing
Chris Jones
