Editorial Note: The Tragedy of our Life and Our Refusal to Learn
Note éditoriale : La tragédie de notre vie et notre refus d’apprendre
Savas Patsalidis, Editor-in-Chief
Special Topic
Guest Editor: Sebastian X Samur (Canada)
Human-Technology Interfacing in Performance: Editor’s Introduction
Sebastian X Samur
“But How Will They Know It’s Live?”: Anonymous Ensemble’s Digital Performances
Jessica Del Vecchio and Eamonn Farrell
Identification et performativité technologique dans Autour du Rose enfer des animaux
Thomas Langlois et Robert Faguy
Parascopic Media: Platformizing Performance with 3D, Dentistry, and Drag
Brendan McCauley
The Intermedial Kingdom of Bodies: A Narratological Analysis of the Live-Animated-Avatar Performance The Kingdom of Shadows
Maya Arad Yasur
Expanding Sound Design in Performing Arts
Kent Olofsson
Reflections on Place in Telematic Performances
Jörgen Dahlqvist
PLAYStrong–Engineering POETICstates:On Facilitating Mental Health through Bio-Signal Interfaces and Brechtian Learning Strategies
Antje Budde and Gustavo Sol
Reimagining Light, Technology and Spectatorship in Contemporary Theatre
Amy Chan and Natalie Cheung
Essays
Editor: Yana Meerzon (Canada)
“Speechless Complainer”: (Un)natural Violence in Dominic Walsh’s Titus Andronicus
Ilana Gilovich-Wave
Jelinek’s Sports Play as Satirical Polemic
Cyrus Lane
Public Spaces, Public Words: Towards the Making of a Pro-Localist Theatre in the Newham Plays
James Kenworth
Simone Weil: Performance Through Nothingness
Tyrone Grima
Elli Papakonstantinou: Oedipal Landscapes on the Digital and the Physical Stage
Lina Rosi
New Medium Theatre Experiments in Kolkata During COVID-19 Lockdowns
Hazael Gomes
Rebels and Revels: Exhibit Curation as Pedagogy in the Study of Theatre of the Middle East
Marjan Moosavi, Q-mars Haeri, Kelley Holley
National Reports
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Facing the Fire: Australian People, Places, and Crises in the Works of Campion Decent
Carla Rocavert
Prophecy or Cautionary Tales? Australian Climate Gothic Drama and Mutating Climate-Scapes
Linda Hassall
Iraqi Theatre: A Niche in an Ecologically Political Sane Milie
Majeed Mohammed Midhin and Suad Qahtan Hussein
What Will Be Left After Us? The Rise οf Ecotheatre in Latvia in Times of the Pandemic
Kitija Balcare
Autour de l’écologie de la langue : les obscénités sur la scène théâtrale
Irina Antonova
The Romanian Theatre of the Last Thirty Years or the Theatre of Paradigm Shift
Oana Borș
Critics on Criticism
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Rediscovering and Reinventing the Community
Andrea Porcheddu
The Cry of the Ear
Johannes Birringer
Interviews
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Theatre for Humility Toward Otherness: Spirituality, Prayer and Hope: Interview with Satoshi Miyagi
by Tomoka Tsukamoto and Ted Motohashi
“We adapt to the changes unfolding in today’s world”: Interview with Sarantuya Sambuu
by Savas Patsalidis
“Now is the time for untold, suppressed stories to be heard”: Interview with Handan Salta
by Savas Patsalidis
Creole Time, Creative Time: Interview with Brazilian Artist Diego Araúja
by Daniele Avila Small and Lorenna Rocha
Cognition Theatre: Interview with Valters Sīlis
by Lauma Mellēna-Bartkeviča
Performance Reviews
Editor: Matti Linnavuori (Finland)
Transborder and Transdisciplinary Works in the Island State of Singapore
Pawit Mahasarinand
Being there in Person
Yun-Cheol Kim
The Anniversary of a Multicultural Outpost in Northern Romania
Maria Zărnescu
Directing von Horváth: Casimir and Caroline on the Romanian Stage
Zafiris Nikitas
Un G8 culturel à Gênes
Jean-Pierre Han
A Poetic Glass Menagerie Buried under the Ground
Grigorios Ioannidis
Avignon 2021 : Liddell, Vandalem, Guédon – Trois manières de faire du théâtre
Selim Lander
Finland Pursues Trendy Sexual Identities
Matti Linnavuori
Ottawa: a Subversive Cabaret of Identity Politics
Alvina Ruprecht
Invitation to Dimitri Papaioannou’s Cosmos of Make-Believe
Paraskevi Tektonidou
Book Reviews
Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)
The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual
Jonathan H. Shannon
A History of East African Theatre: Vol. I: Horn of Africa
Don Rubin
Terzopoulos Tribute Delphi
Maria Ristani
Dramaturgy of Form: Performing Verse in Contemporary Theatre
Patricia Keeney
Affair of the Heart: British Theatre from 1992-2020
Chris Jones
Focus: Ukraine I
Editors: Critical Stages
Cultural Thaw in a Zone of War
Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
Contemporary “Suppliants” and the Loss of Tragic Sensibility
Savas Patsalidis
Belarus and Ukraine: No Longer Russia’s Hinterlands
John Freedman
“Art is not an escape; it is a statement of life.” Interview with Alex Borovenskiy
by Yana Meerzon
“Stalin died but not completely”: Dialogue with Artur Solomonov*
Yana Meerzon
Focus: Ukraine II
Guest Editor: Kasia Lech (Poland/England)
Ukraine Theatre: Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Kasia Lech
Theatre as a Ηumanitarian Mission: Ukraine`s Experience 2022
Maiia Harbuziuk
Anima Art for Peace from Kharkiv, the City of Freedom
Julia Bilińska
Історія України / Historia Ukrainy / History of Ukraine
Sofiia Onishchenko, Daria Bohdan, Vasylyna Martseniuk