Editorial Note: About Theatre Criticism
Savas Patsalidis, Editor-in-Chief
Special Topic
Theatre Criticism in the Age of Self-Isolation and Social Distancing
Co-Editors: Yana Meerzon (Canada), Savas Patsalidis (Greece), Aisling Murphy (Canada)
Editors’ Comment: Theatre (Criticism) the Day After
Yana Meerzon, Savas Patsalidis, Aisling Murphy
How to Write About Theatre Online Workshops
Mark Fisher
CATR Digital Criticism Pedagogies Workshop 2020 Recap
Karen Fricker, Michelle Macarthur, Aisling Murphy, Robyn Grant-Moran, Mae Smith
Arts Journalism and Theatre in the Pandemic Era: Mutations, Redefinitions and Challenges
Zoe Ververopoulou
Chilean Crises Lead to Experiments in Online Theatre
Pablo Cisternas, Milena Grass Kleiner, Andrés Kalawski, Cristián Opazo
Le théâtre en confinement : qu’est-ce que nous avons regardé en Turquie ?
Ece Yassitepe Ayyildiz
Tercera Llamada #LiveOnlineNow: Notes on a Virtual Theatre Experience
Fernando Valcheff García, Regina Solis Mirandal, Sara Hermo
Internet: Curse or Blessing
Esther Slevogt
The Digital Sublime and Fragility in the Time of COVID-19 and the Eco-crisis: The Dynamics of Becoming
Hanna Helavuori
Electric Dance, or How to Talk with Birds
Johannes Birringer
Some Reflections on Theatre in a Post (Pre-) Pandemic Moscow
Alla Shenderova
Ceci n’est pas un théâtre: Theatre in the Age of COVID
Mark Brown
The Performance of Protest in a Post-COVID World: A Theatre Critic’s Perspective from India
Deepa Punjani
Not Here, Not Now? Liveness Revisited
Małgorzata Sugiera
Brecht Is More Relevant Than Ever in the Time of COVID-19
Jisoo Nam
Le théâtre survivra-t-il à la tentation du virtuel ?
Tibor Egervari
Pandemic V-Effect: The Plague as Theatre Criticism
Felipe Cervera and Azadeh Sharifi
After Devitalized Theatre
Nenad Jelesijević
Theatre and Censorship in the Pandemic
Patricia Nikolova
Misplaced Self in the Misplaced City
Tan Tan (Weiwei Sun)
Migrant Representation in the U.K. Theatre Industry: How Covid-19 Catalysed a Movement
Sally Beck Wippman (contrib. Zhui-Ning Chang, Lara Parmiani)
Essays
Editor: Yana Meerzon (Canada)
Contemporary Playwriting and Theatre Translation Cultures in Europe: A Report on Current Systems, Conventions and Perceptions
Margherita Laera
Relaxed Performance: An Ethnography of Pedagogy in Praxis
Carla Rice, Chelsea Temple Jones, Jessica Watkin, Kayla Besse
« …papa merci d’être mort » – Un spectacle pour les adultes qui étaient autrefois des enfants
Irina Antonova
Rethinking Authority, Creativity and Authorship in Twenty-First-Century Performance: The Director’s Revised Role
Avra Sidiropoulou
What Is This Thing, Drama? Plays for Dialogue in a Rwandan College Setting
Amy S. Green
Au-delà des frontières, les ponts
Georges Banu
National Reports
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Mission Im/possible: In Search of Identity and the Aesthetics of Hong Kong Contemporary Theatre
Bernice Kwok-wai Chan
Critics on Criticism
Theatre Criticism for Young Audiences: New Directions
Co-Editors: Diana Damian Martin (UK), Anette Therese Pettersen (Norway), Rui Pina Coelho (Portugal)
Note from the Editors
Diana Damian Martin, Anette Therese Pettersen, Rui Pina Coelho
The Young People’s Stage of the National Theatre of Greece: Cultural Politics and Pedagogical Paradigms
Zafiris Nikitas
Criticism as a Play-Space
Merve Tokgöz
What If We Just Dance? An Example of Interactive Criticism
Paraskevi Tektonidou
“Parallel Space for Reflection”: Interview with Zala Dobovšek
by Tjaša Bertoncelj
Young Critical Practices: Ways of Thinking in and With the Arts
Anette Therese Pettersen
Describe, Evaluate, Argue: Teaching Criticism for Young Writers
Hild Borchgrevink, Ida Habbestad
Réinventer les paysages et dessiner les vols au Théâtre de Marionnettes de Porto
Catarina Firmo
Flight Paths and Theatre for Early Years Audiences
Robyn Ayles, Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, Margaret Mykietyshyn
Interviews
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Sociology of Theatre and Performance: Interview with Maria Shevtsova
by Savas Patsalidis
Our Responsibility Lies in Our Decisions: Interview with Patrice Pavis
by Éva Patkó and Savas Patsalidis
A Digital Talk About an Analogue Art: Interview with Erika Fischer-Lichte
by Ivan Medenica
Experiments with Human Nature: Interview with Margarita Mladenova
by Kamelia Nikolova
In Search of Contexts: Interview with Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry
by Vikram Phukan
I Can See you, on Zoom: Interview with Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad
by Tina Perić
“The Counterpart” Becoming Myself: Interview with Kang Ryang-won
by Lee Hwawon
Documentary Theatre: About Aesthetics and Politics. Interview with Martha Bouziouri
by Savas Patsalidis
De la rencontre aux écrans: une approche kaléidoscopique du réel : Entretien avec BERLIN
par Karolina Svobodova
Corps, voix, mémoire : Entretien avec Guy Régis Jr.
par Jason Allen-Paisant
Performance Reviews
Editor: Matti Linnavuori (Finland)
Macmillan’s Pandemic Theatre in Latvia
Lauma Mellēna-Bartkeviča
The Game Is Over
Marina (Maka) Vasadze
Hallucinations of a Finnish Anarchist
Matti Linnavuori
Qui a peur du théâtre ?
Camille Khoury
Defeats to Lament, Lives to Celebrate: Fragments of a Greek Festival
Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou
Théâtre et musique, un mariage risqué
Selim Lander
Exodos. The Body Is the Oracle
Penelope Chatzidimitriou
Theater of War: The Relevance of Community Arts during the Pandemic
Angela Constantinidou
Les bienfaits collatéraux d’une pandémie à Luxembourg
Stéphane Gilbart
Book Reviews
Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Patrice Chéreau
par Philippe Rouyer
Marionetteatern: 60 Years and More
par Louise Lapointe
TNT: The New Theatre
Ian Herbert
Contemporary Plays by African Women
Patricia Keeney
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Remembering Two IATC Laureates
Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)
Kapila Vatsyayan: A Legend of Indian Culture
Ravi Chaturvedi
Kapila Vatsyayan and the IATC Thalia Prize
Margareta Sörenson
Remembering Eric Bentley
Don Rubin
