Table of Contents

Editorial Note: Traversing the Globe on Theatre’s Chariot
Note éditoriale : Traverser le globe sur le char du théâtre 
Savas Patsalidis, Editor-in-Chief

Special Topic

Postmillennial Dramaturgies in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand

Guest Editors: Kathryn Kelly, Julian MeyrickFiona GrahamMoana Nepia and Emily Coleman (Australia/New Zealand)

By Land and Sea: Wayfinding and Weaving Contemporary Australian and Aotearoa / New Zealand Dramaturgies – Editors’ Note
Kathryn Kelly, Julian Meyrick, Fiona Graham, Moana Nepia and Emily Coleman

Australasian Dramaturgy and First Nation Cultural Dramaturgy: Looking Back Before We Go Forward
Colleen Wall

Research Methodologies for Dance and Cultural Dramaturgies in Contested Land
Dalisa Pigram, Tia Reihana, and Rachael Swain

From Haka to Haptics: Indigenous Māori and Intercultural Dramaturgies: Interviews with six Artists from Aotearoa/New Zealand
by Moana Nepia

Humour is the Great Healer: Interview with David Geary (Taranaki Māori)
by Moana Nepia, Fiona Graham and Kathryn Kelly

Fluid Dramaturgy: Moana Nui Spacing as Relational Performative Environment
Dorita Hannah

Untangling the Wind: Reflections on Black Medea in Performance
Rick Brayford, Tom Heath, Leah Pigram, Teejay Woods, Myeesha Reid and Julianna Thomas

Dramaturgies of Climate Crisis
Danielle Wyatt and Jasmin Pfefferkorn

The Flood Project: Thinking through an Applied Dramaturgy Framework for Community Regeneration
Linda Hassall, Tanja Beer, Saffron Benner and Natalie Lazaroo

Dramaturgy Beyond the Western Model: Interview with Ahilan Karunaharan and Jane Yonge
by Alison Walls

Hard-won Wisdom: Interview with Australian Dramaturg Peter Matheson
by Kathryn Kelly

Liquid Dramaturgy in Aotearoa: Interview with Nisha Madhan and Julia Croft
Fiona Graham

Co-conspiracy: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Queer/ing Dramaturgy
Alyson Campbell and Meta Cohen

Letter to a Playwright: How Drama Works Dramaturgically
Julian Meyrick

Embodied Dramaturgy and Solo Performance: In the Pool with Emily Steel’s 19 weeks
Sarah Peters

Practice Snapshot: Notes on Choreographic Dramaturgy
alys longley

Embodying a Posthuman Dramaturgy of Place: Distance, Sound and Silence in Australian Contemporary Performance
Rea Dennis and Kate Hunter

A Dramaturgy of Consent: Yes Yes Yes by Eleanor Bishop and Karin McCracken
James Wenley

“I don’t know why I cried, but I did.” Diversity and the Dramaturgy of Impact in Australian Theatre for Young People
Paul Rae and Abbie Victoria Trott

The Art of Taking Part: Dramaturgies of Encounter in Theatre for Early Years
Sally Chance

Outback Upfront: Playwriting Around Youth in Regional Australia
David Megarrity and Jenna Gillett-Swan

Dramaturgical Thinking: A Creative Conversation About Australian Dramaturgy
Robert Ellis Walton and Alyson Campbell

Essays

Editor: Yana Meerzon (Canada)

First Métis Man of Odesa: Liminalities, Ruptures, and Reconnections of Voice and Community in Ukraine and Canada
Moira Day

Against Epistemic Injustice: A Tribute to Maya Harbuzyuk
Ewa Bal and Iryna Chuzhynova

The Domestic Kitchen as Performance Space: The Female Artist vs the Housewife
Athena Stourna

Towards the Artificially Intelligent Playwright: Experimentation with Chat GPT
Dominic Chamayou-Douglas

Playing in “Sand Time”: Using Both Video Score and Printed Script in an Intercultural Production of Shōgo Ōta’s Elements
Lynette Hunter, Peter Lichtenfels and John Zibell

Performing Presidents
Maria Berlova

Inter/National Reflections

Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)

In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre
Andrea Porcheddu

A Promising Comeback: Colombo International Theatre Festival and Sri Lankan Theatre
Ajay Joshi

The Glo-c-ality of Almada Festival
Savas Patsalidis

Avignon 2023: The New Beginning in Boulbon Quarry
Ivan Medenica

Carnivalesque Theatricality, Cultural Literacy and the Wonders of the Human Spirit: Sibiu International Theatre Festival at Thirty
Octavian Saiu

Next Page on Stage: 21st Century Dramaturgies
Maria Ristani

Herman Cornejo: Giving Voice to the Earth Through Dance
Halima Tahan Ferreyra

Critics on Criticism

Editor: Critical Stages/Scènes critiques

Uncannily Small: Policed Performance in Southeast Asia
Katrina Stuart Santiago

Interviews

Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)

The Lubimovka Echo Festival and the Russian Language Anti-War Drama in Exile
by Anastasia Patlay, Liza Spivakovskaya, Yana Meerzon, Dmitri Priven

Theatre is not a Delivery Service: Interview with Stefanie Carp
by Savas Patsalidis

“Let’s Talk for Real About Us”: Interview with Raluca Rădulescu
by Savas Patsalidis

Wrestling with Howard Barker: Interview
by Elizabeth Sakellaridou

“Hello, I am Koko”: Interview with Koko Roinishvili
by Irina Gogoberidze

Performance Reviews

Editor: Matti Linnavuori (Finland)

Edinburgh Fringe: Performances beyond Racial Identities
Takehito Mitsui

Theater der Welt 2023—Dreaming Plural Worlds along the River Main
Beri Juraic

Immersive In/Sights: Performing the Cancer Experience
Vinia Dakari

Impressions from the Romanian National Theatre Festival
Savas Patsalidis

Shattering Glass and a Funeral in Belgrade
Matti Linnavuori and Rosa Tina Perić

Stilled Tongues: Performance Protests Silence Surrounding Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ Bill
Robert Walton

Kinky Boots: “Comfort Theatre” After the Before Times
Lissa Tyler Renaud

Canada’s Stratford Festival Offers a Radical Richard II and a Lively King Lear
Martin Morrow

Theatrical Adaptation of Iconic Canadian Novel Asks Us to Witness
Kyla Whetham

De ce côté : Une pièce sur le théâtre politique
Selim Lander

Festival de micro-théâtre Équinoxe : conquérir les nouveaux publics
Lorie Ganley

Resurrection of Václav Havel’s Theatre and Erotic Dreams in Pilsen
Zbyněk Černík

In a Time of Want: The Trojan Women
Alicia Corts

The Joy of Theatre in Timişoara, European Capital of Culture, 2023
Maria Zărnescu

Performance Art of Inclusivity, Human Stories and Revolutionary Politics
Dara Milovanović

John Malkovich on Stage as a Serial Killer
Asen Terziev

Écho du stage pour jeunes critiques à Varna
Jean-Pierre Han

dunaPart6: Focus on Young Independent Artists
Kamelia Nikolova


Book Reviews

Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)

Puppetry and Multimedia
Margareta Sörenson

Horatio’s Stories: Portraits and Confessions of European Theatre Masters
Louise Vigeant

Les Récits d’Horatio: Portraits et aveux des maîtres du théâtre européen
Louise Vigeant

Performing Arousal: Precarious Bodies and Frames of Representation
Don Rubin