Editorial Note: Performing the Future: Theatre at the Crossroads of Crisis and Renewal
Note éditoriale : Jouer l’avenir : Le théâtre au carrefour de la crise et du renouveau
Savas Patsalidis, Editor-in-Chief
Special Topic
Performance, Climate and Conflict Transformation
Guest Editors: Roberta Levitow, Chantal Bilodeau and Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou
Introductory Note: Toward Ecologies of Action
Roberta Levitow, Chantal Bilodeau and Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou
Florida EcoPerformance Manifesto: Producing Climate Forward Live Arts in the State of the Future
Elizabeth Doud
Connecting the Dots from the River to the Gulf: Turning River Data Flow into Sound Performance Speaks Volumes for Rio Grande Ecology
Marya Errin Jones
“We Come from the Place of Many Tongues”: The Land Memory Bank, Mondo Bizarro and the Mississippi
Monique Verdin, Nick Slie, Lisa D’Amour
It Is Our Fault: Theatre on the Climate Catastrophe in Egypt
Jillian Campana
The Absurdity of Collapse: Ecosomatics, Memory, and Bioethics in Project Abyssos
Eva Gkadri
Say Yes to Me. Or Penguins, Provocation and Bulging Hope
Moira Finucane
Riding the Waves of Change: Sailing with the Flipflopi Project
Mick Warwick
Theatre of Hunger: Climate Fasts and Protests in Ladakh
Nikhil Katara
Culinary Climate Action, Food Justice and the Revolution in Our Gardens
DJ Cavem
Essays
Editor: Yana Meerzon (Canada)
Relocation, Dislocation, Recontextualization: Two Recent U.S. Stagings of Adigun/Doyle Playboy
Bisi Adigun and Meghan Winch
Two Stages, One Vision: Stefan Larsson’s Adaptation of Ibsen’s Little Eyolf in Sweden and Cyprus
Maria Hamali and Maria Sehopoulou
Like an Alien Hair in One’s Mouth: Anmar Taha’s Theatrical Performance and the Use of the Body
Farah Ali and Majeed Mohammed Midhin
Singing History—Politics of Idiom and Genre in Ted Hearne’s Music(al)-Theatre
David Roesner
Le fil mémoriel et la dimension onirique dans les spectacles numériques de Lemieux-Pilon
Filip Dukanic
Community Theatre in Colombia: Origins and Trajectories
Sarah Ashford Hart and Janneth Aldana
Hybrid Times and Traditional Dance: The Egbenu-Oba Experiment in Nigeria
Princewill Chukwuma Abakporo, Fidelis Enang Egbe, Abdumalik Adakole Amali, Stanley Timeyin Ohenhen, Ofega Eru
Theatricality of Medicine Hucksters: A “Road Map” Towards Modern Performing Arts and the Preservation of Local Culture
Kurniasih Zaitun. Eko Supriyanto, Yusril
Inter/National Reflections
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Uniting Europe in an Age of Fracture
Heidi Wiley
Crafted Figures Make German History: Notes from Berlin
Loren Kruger
Before and After – War or Peace
Johannes Birringer
A 60-year-old Theatre Festival: Theatertreffen
İlker Çalışkan
Stage Worlds of Poetry and Human Passions: Iasi National Theatre Showcase
Savas Patsalidis
Embracing the Un/scene of Hope at the NTNG’s 6th International Forest Festival
Maria Ristani and Marissia Fragkou
Under Supervision or Underground: The Spaces of Contemporary Iranian Theatre
Ali Mansouri
Theatrical Manifestations on the Scenic Horizon of Buenos Aires
Halima Tahan Ferreyra
Intercultural Adaptations of Sophocles’ Antigone: Antigone Mania by Rabijita Gogoi
Subrat Jyoti Neog
Wandering to Wuzhen: A Festival of Encounters
Grigorios Ioannidis
Shakespearean Inheritance and Innovation in Chinese Campus Theatre
Huiyue Wen and Li Zeng
Interviews
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Staging the Precarious, the Vulnerable, and the Stranger: The Stage of Filipino Director José Estrella
Sir Anril P. Tiatco, Jem R. Javier, José Estrella
The Path of Sadhana: A Life Spent in Search of the Ancient Wisdom of Acting. Interview with Gopal Venu
Renu Ramanath
“Wuzhen is a window for China to see the world through theatre, and for the world to see China through theatre”: Interview with Stan Lai
Peng Tao, Zhu Ning, and Savas Patsalidis
Burn the Colony: Crafting a Play About Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Deaths in Custody
Nazaree Dickerson and Sarah Woodland
Performance Reviews
Editor: Matti Linnavuori (Finland)
The Challenges of a Multilingual Showcase
Savas Patsalidis
Before the Gate, a Rain of Light
Octavian Szalad
Building Theatre Bridges in Southeast Europe
Yun-Cheol Kim
Finnish Animal Farm Caged and Chained
Pirkko Koski
Frida : oui, mais était-ce bien nécessaire ?
Selim Lander
Slovak Directors Avoid Intrusion
Matti Linnavuori
VOICES: Performing Intersections of War, Memory and Migration
Yana Meerzon, Alexey Munipov, Natalia Skorokhod
The Sight of Music
Sylvia Solakidi
Pot of Chaos: Young Critics Discussing Juggle and Hide
Young Critics
The Choreography of Encounter
Yaşam Özlem Gülseven
New Voices of Hanoi: Puppets, Shadows and Urban Change in ToLo Puppet Theatre’s Thổ địa
Qiao Zhangweijing
Book Reviews
Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)
Theatre and its Audiences: Reimagining the Relationship in Times of Crisis
Katayoun Salmasi
Jean-Marie Serreau – Fragments et extraits réunis et présentés
Selim Lander
Quels rôles pour le spectateur à l’ère numérique?
Lou Gargouri
The Paris Manuscript: The Early Draft Rediscovered
Lenka Pichlíková-Burke
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Athol Fugard (1932-2025)
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