Editorial Note: Renegotiating Traditions and Genres
Note éditoriale : Renégocier les traditions et les genres
Savas Patsalidis, Editor-in-Chief
Special Topic
Renegotiating the Canon: Scenes of German/ic Theatre(s)
Guest Editors: Azadeh Sharifi and Ulf Otto
Renegotiating the Canon: Scenes of German/ic Theatre(s) – Editors’ Note
Azadeh Sharifi and Ulf Otto
Theatre as Weapon of War: German Language Theatres Across Occupied Europe During WWII
Anselm Heinrich
An Archive of Migration: The Ballhaus Naunynstraße in the 1980s
Ela Gezen and Olivia Landry
The Brecht-brand and German Theatre in South Korea
Jan Creutzenberg
If You Had Only Spoken . . . Counter-narratives and Marginalized Histories of Women on the German Stage in Romania Before and After 1989
Cristina Modreanu
Who Belongs to the “Freie Szene”? Or How Does Contemporaneity Become a Criterion for Exclusion
Alexandra Portmann
Socialist Past, Postmigrant Present: Renegotiating the Canon at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
Hans Roth
A Feminist Rewriting of Kleist? Öziri’and Nübling’s Die Verlobung in St. Domingo – Ein Widerspruch
Priscilla Layne
Embodied Ideologies: Staging Constructions of Economic and Domestic Worlds Within Marie Eugenie delle Grazie’s Mutter
Greta Gebhard
New German Dramaturgy: Centering on the World
Ivan Medenica
Essays
Editor: Yana Meerzon (Canada)
Dramatising Traditional Rulers in the Cesspit of Treachery: Τhe Examples of Femi Osofisan’s Farewell to a Cannibal Rage and Aringindin and the Nightwatchmen
Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade and Ayobami Kehinde
Looking Back to Look Forward—How Ancient Storytelling Traditions Can Shed Light on Contemporary Practices of Spectating
Elizabeth Swift
Opening Playwriting Workshops to Other Forms and Frameworks of Creative Logic: Challenges and Paradoxes in a Belgian Case
Élise Deschambre
COVID-19 and the Drive-in Theatre in Nigeria
Ngozi Udengwu and Godwin Onuche
The Body/theatre-in-Pain: (Im)possibility of Wellness in Lisa Kron’s Well
Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar
Teesri Duniya’s “Counter” Offence: Diasporic Theatre and Minority Representation in the Bill 96 Era
Shailee Rajak
National Reports
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Stages of Resistance and Re-connections: Unfolding Story of a Third World Theatre Festival
Renu Ramanath
Bitef 2016-2022: Seven Scenes Seen as Seven Sins
Agata Juniku
The Flemish Wave Gets a Second Wind
David Willinger
Post-Covid Theatre in Greece: Recovering (?) From Successive Crises
Lina Rosi
A Critical Survey of Bangladesh Theatre
Shafi Ahmed
Critics on Criticism
Editor: Critical Stages/Scènes critiques
How Married is Medea?
J. Michael Walton
Interviews
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Traversing Diverse Terrains: Interview with Abhishek Majumdar
by Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri
The Ideology of an Objective Dramatist: Interview with Femi Osofisan
by Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade
From Being a Craftsman to Being an Artist: Interview with Cengiz Özek
by Mehmet Özbek
Quand écrire pour le théâtre, c’est assembler des matériaux disparates. Entretien avec Sarah Berthiaume
par Hervé Guay
Transmitting Knowledge and Technique: Interview with Thomas Richards
by Steve Capra
Theatre is Like a Vintage Music Box: Old and Fashionable at the Same Time – Interview with Silvia Ghilas
by Savas Patsalidis
Le Théâtre de la Nuit : Entretien avec Dimitris Dimitriadis
par Kalliopi Exarchou
“I like to go backwards in order to push myself forward.” Interview with Sara Barros Leitão
by Beatriz Catarino
“I try to sense the ‘pulse of time’”: Interview with Yordan Slaveykov
by Kamelia Nikolova
Performance Reviews
Editor: Matti Linnavuori (Finland)
Kyoto Experiment: Re-thinking the Festival as a Constant Work-in-Progress
Beri Juraic
Festival de théâtre d’Asie centrale : valeurs traditionnelles et / ou « nouvelles formes »
Irina Antonova
John Malkovich Explores Two Levels of a Koltès Character
Antonia Tsamouris
Rothko’s Tears (And a Question on Originality)
Grigorios Ioannidis
Abhorrent yet Admirable Icons of a Small Nation
Matti Linnavuori
Tangibly Transcendental
Tina Perić
Javor Gardev’s Productions in the Bulgarian Repertoire
Valleri Robinson
Simon Stone’s Phaedra: Visceral, Immediate and Intensely Convincing
George Rodosthenous
Talking Back
Patricia Keeney
Bare Bodies: Mirroring Pain on Stage
Steriani Tsintziloni
Book Reviews
Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)
It’s Not Your Fault: Five New Plays on Sexual Harassment in Egypt
Patricia Keeney
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
Don Rubin
Frictions
Selim Lander
In Memoriam
Editor: Critical Stages/Scènes critiques
Georges Banu, the Great Storyteller of World Theatre
Maria Zărnescu
Hans-Thies Lehmann (1944-2022) in memoriam
Patrice Pavis
