Skip to content

Critical Stages/Scènes critiques

The IATC journal/Revue de l'AICT – December/decembre 2025: Issue No 32

Special Topic
Essays
Inter/National Reflections
Interviews
Performance Reviews
Book Reviews
In Memoriam

Introduction <br>Encountering the Immediate Other: Towards Inter-Asia Theatre Studies

Introduction
Encountering the Immediate Other: Towards Inter-Asia Theatre Studies

Walter Jen-Hao Hsu, Deniz Bașar, S Anril Tiatco

Transhistorical Dialogues: Recanonizing Shakespeare on the Contemporary Turkish Stage

Transhistorical Dialogues: Recanonizing Shakespeare on the Contemporary Turkish Stage

Burak Urucu

Cross-Cultural Reinterpretation: The Evolution of Mime in 1980s China

Cross-Cultural Reinterpretation: The Evolution of Mime in 1980s China

Yiping HUANG

Performing Ecology—Dap-ay as a Performative Model in the Aanak di Kabiligan Community Theatre’s Staging of <em>Balitok: Voices from the Mines</em>

Performing Ecology—Dap-ay as a Performative Model in the Aanak di Kabiligan Community Theatre’s Staging of Balitok: Voices from the Mines

Roger Federico

‘Traditional’ Kabuki – from Business Practice to National Policy

‘Traditional’ Kabuki – from Business Practice to National Policy

Tove Johanna Bjoerk

In A State of Constant Migration: Conversation With Fatma Onat

In A State of Constant Migration: Conversation With Fatma Onat

Fatma Onat and Deniz Başar

Traces of a Lost Archive: Four Selected Theatre Criticisms by Fatma Onat from 2010s’ İstanbul

Traces of a Lost Archive: Four Selected Theatre Criticisms by Fatma Onat from 2010s’ İstanbul

Fatma Onat

A Woman with Two Husbands: A Play with Two Displays—Ways of Seeing Taiwanese Kua-a-hi during the Japanese Colonial Period

A Woman with Two Husbands: A Play with Two Displays—Ways of Seeing Taiwanese Kua-a-hi during the Japanese Colonial Period

Yin-Chen Kang

Musicals, Actors, and Audiences in the Seoul-Tokyo Musical Theatre Exchange

Musicals, Actors, and Audiences in the Seoul-Tokyo Musical Theatre Exchange

Laura MacDonald

Perceiving Audible Spectatorship: Audience Awareness, Migrant Emptiness, and Inter-Asian Resonance in the Wordless Play <em>Request sa Radyo</em>

Perceiving Audible Spectatorship: Audience Awareness, Migrant Emptiness, and Inter-Asian Resonance in the Wordless Play Request sa Radyo

Popo Tabao Amascual

Voices In-between: Three Contemporary Asian Theatre Makers Crossing Borders

Voices In-between: Three Contemporary Asian Theatre Makers Crossing Borders

Beri Juraic

What a Blue Daisy Can Bring to Contemporary Vietnamese Theatre: Translated Performances of Vietnamese Drama

What a Blue Daisy Can Bring to Contemporary Vietnamese Theatre: Translated Performances of Vietnamese Drama

Yuko Nobe

Whose Intercultural Theatre?: A Case Study of NSYSU-Chula Summer Intercultural Theatre Program

Whose Intercultural Theatre?: A Case Study of NSYSU-Chula Summer Intercultural Theatre Program

Jen-Hao Hsu (Walter)

Traces of a Lost Archive: Four Selected Theatre Criticisms by Fatma Onat from 2010s’ İstanbul

Traces of a Lost Archive: Four Selected Theatre Criticisms by Fatma Onat from 2010s’ İstanbul

Fatma Onat

‘Traditional’ Kabuki – from Business Practice to National Policy

‘Traditional’ Kabuki – from Business Practice to National Policy

Tove Johanna Bjoerk

Musicals, Actors, and Audiences in the Seoul-Tokyo Musical Theatre Exchange

Musicals, Actors, and Audiences in the Seoul-Tokyo Musical Theatre Exchange

Laura MacDonald

Cross-Cultural Reinterpretation: The Evolution of Mime in 1980s China

Cross-Cultural Reinterpretation: The Evolution of Mime in 1980s China

Yiping HUANG

Essays

“What are the traces of a festival?” Expanded Dramaturgies of Curating<br>“Different Narratives” – Baltic Circle

“What are the traces of a festival?” Expanded Dramaturgies of Curating
“Different Narratives” – Baltic Circle

Katalin Trencsényi

Symphonies of Tibetan Memory: Surviving in Exile Through Opera

Symphonies of Tibetan Memory: Surviving in Exile Through Opera

Jahnvi Sharma

Mediating the Sacred: Tradition and Adaptations in Shadow Puppetry of Kerala

Mediating the Sacred: Tradition and Adaptations in Shadow Puppetry of Kerala

Rahul Koonathara

Validating the Operated Performing Objects (OPO) Character Model Through Kentridge’s Black Box/Chambre Noire

Validating the Operated Performing Objects (OPO) Character Model Through Kentridge’s Black Box/Chambre Noire

Janine Lewis, Mienke Fouché, and Laetitia Orlandi

Mise-en-scène and the Stage Space: <em>Goddess of the Niger</em> and Theatrical Dynamics of Ahaba Culture

Mise-en-scène and the Stage Space: Goddess of the Niger and Theatrical Dynamics of Ahaba Culture

Francisca A. Nwadigwe

Jean Carzou, a Scenographer: 1968 Production of Thierry Maulnier’s <em>Jeanne et les Juges</em>

Jean Carzou, a Scenographer: 1968 Production of Thierry Maulnier’s Jeanne et les Juges

Ararat Aghasyan and Margarita Kamalyan

Reenacting the Tragedy of the Defeated

Reenacting the Tragedy of the Defeated

Katerina Arvaniti

Performing Post-War Memory: Trauma, Identity, and Moral Decay in Kosovo’s Balkan Brothel

Performing Post-War Memory: Trauma, Identity, and Moral Decay in Kosovo’s Balkan Brothel

Ilir Muharremi, Albana Krasniqi and Atlanta Balidemaj

Era-Specific Interpretations of Shakespeare’s “Saddest Comedy” in Latvian Theatre

Era-Specific Interpretations of Shakespeare’s “Saddest Comedy” in Latvian Theatre

Vesma Levalde and Sigita Ignatjeva

Interviews

On Being Robbed of Polite Boredom: Finding the Code. Interview with Director Robert Icke

On Being Robbed of Polite Boredom: Finding the Code. Interview with Director Robert Icke

George Rodosthenous

Risk, Bravery and Theatre or The End and the Beginning of the Free World: Interview with Märt Meos

Risk, Bravery and Theatre or The End and the Beginning of the Free World: Interview with Märt Meos

Inna Grünfeldt and Katarina Tomps

La metteuse en scène kazakhstanaise Galina Pyanova : « Après Avignon, j’ai retrouvé la joie du théâtre »

La metteuse en scène kazakhstanaise Galina Pyanova : « Après Avignon, j’ai retrouvé la joie du théâtre »

Irina Antonova

Between Memory and Fire: The State of Contemporary Pakistani Theatre. Interview with Maham Fahad

Between Memory and Fire: The State of Contemporary Pakistani Theatre. Interview with Maham Fahad

Farah Ali

Inter/National Reflections

A Dramaturgical Manifesto of a Filipino Eco-theatre: Indigenous Narratives for a Socially Engaged Performance
Between Mother Tongues and English: Creating a Community of Asian Diaspora Experiences Through Documentary Theatre
Reliving the Past: Reflections on Reenactments by Dulambuhay Philippine Playback Theatre and Tanghalang Tatsulok
Balik/Balik: The Undoing of Self/Exoticization in Teaching/Performing/Staging Igal/Pangalay in Canada
Covering Theatre Artists Efforts in New Genres
Fabulamundi, Playwriting Europe. New Voices – an Insider’s View, Review and Interview
Theatre’s Faustian Bargain: Power and Peril in Technology
Borderline Stages: The Trajectory of Freedom Theatre Festival in Narva
Alone Together: Solo Theatre in a Plural World
L’adaptation et la mise en scène contemporaine : La Famille Cachée dans les Nuages
Through Foreign Eyes: Reflecting on the Bucharest National Theatre Festival (2025)

A Dramaturgical Manifesto of a Filipino Eco-theatre: Indigenous Narratives for a Socially Engaged Performance

A Dramaturgical Manifesto of a Filipino Eco-theatre: Indigenous Narratives for a Socially Engaged Performance

Between Mother Tongues and English: Creating a Community of Asian Diaspora Experiences Through Documentary Theatre

Between Mother Tongues and English: Creating a Community of Asian Diaspora Experiences Through Documentary Theatre

Reliving the Past: Reflections on Reenactments by Dulambuhay Philippine Playback Theatre and Tanghalang Tatsulok

Reliving the Past: Reflections on Reenactments by Dulambuhay Philippine Playback Theatre and Tanghalang Tatsulok

Balik/Balik: The Undoing of Self/Exoticization in Teaching/Performing/Staging <em>Igal/Pangalay</em> in Canada

Balik/Balik: The Undoing of Self/Exoticization in Teaching/Performing/Staging <em>Igal/Pangalay</em> in Canada

Covering Theatre Artists Efforts in New Genres

Covering Theatre Artists Efforts in New Genres

<em>Fabulamundi</em>, Playwriting Europe. <em>New Voices</em> – an Insider’s View, Review and Interview

<em>Fabulamundi</em>, Playwriting Europe. <em>New Voices</em> – an Insider’s View, Review and Interview

Theatre’s Faustian Bargain: Power and Peril in Technology

Theatre’s Faustian Bargain: Power and Peril in Technology

Borderline Stages: The Trajectory of Freedom Theatre Festival in Narva

Borderline Stages: The Trajectory of Freedom Theatre Festival in Narva

Alone Together: Solo Theatre in a Plural World

Alone Together: Solo Theatre in a Plural World

L’adaptation et la mise en scène contemporaine : La Famille Cachée dans les Nuages

L’adaptation et la mise en scène contemporaine : La Famille Cachée dans les Nuages

Through Foreign Eyes: Reflecting on the Bucharest National Theatre Festival (2025)

Through Foreign Eyes: Reflecting on the Bucharest National Theatre Festival (2025)

Performance Reviews

Double Double Biker Trouble

Double Double Biker Trouble

Patricia Keeney

In <em>Ransacking Troy</em>, Ancient Greece’s “Forever War” Inspires a Feminist Fantasy

In Ransacking Troy, Ancient Greece’s “Forever War” Inspires a Feminist Fantasy

Martin Morrow

Finns Remember Invisible Migrants through Performance

Finns Remember Invisible Migrants through Performance

Pirkko Koski

Performing Arts across Borders: Exchange among Three Neighbouring Countries

Performing Arts across Borders: Exchange among Three Neighbouring Countries

Takehito Mitsui

Exploring an Arab Zone of Diverse Theatre Cultures

Exploring an Arab Zone of Diverse Theatre Cultures

Thomas Irmer

Castellucci’s Amorous <em>Bérénice</em>

Castellucci’s Amorous Bérénice

Antonia Tsamouris

<em>Antigone</em> de Sophocle à travers l’optique formaliste de Ulrich Rasche

Antigone de Sophocle à travers l’optique formaliste de Ulrich Rasche

Eleni Gkini

Kielce Showcases Poland’s Contemporary Theatre

Kielce Showcases Poland’s Contemporary Theatre

Asen Terziev

In Cluj-Napoca Stories Refuse to Fade

In Cluj-Napoca Stories Refuse to Fade

Handan Salta

Robert Sturua—an Ambassador of Georgian Theatre on the Global Stage

Robert Sturua—an Ambassador of Georgian Theatre on the Global Stage

Marina (Maka) Vasadze

<em>Taire, Mon Antigone</em> – Mythe d’hier, réalité d’aujourd’hui

Taire, Mon Antigone – Mythe d’hier, réalité d’aujourd’hui

Selim Lander

Englishness and Humanity: The Revival of <em>4.48 Psychosis</em>

Englishness and Humanity: The Revival of 4.48 Psychosis

Tomoko Seki

Encounters with Czechs on the Move

Encounters with Czechs on the Move

Matti Linnavuori

Perverted Traditions and Psychedelic Ecstasy

Perverted Traditions and Psychedelic Ecstasy

Johannes Birringer

Book Reviews

Shakespeare in the Theatre: The Stratford Festival

Shakespeare in the Theatre: The Stratford Festival

1. Walter Benjamin: Écrits sur le théâtre / 2. Les Mille Plateaux de Walter Benjamin

1. Walter Benjamin: Écrits sur le théâtre / 2. Les Mille Plateaux de Walter Benjamin

Three New Volumes on Finnish Director Jouko Turkka

Three New Volumes on Finnish Director Jouko Turkka

Michael Chekhov: 16 Lessons in Kaunas

Michael Chekhov: 16 Lessons in Kaunas

In Memoriam

“It Is All the Same Hand”: Robert Wilson (4 October 1941- 31 July 2025)

“It Is All the Same Hand”: Robert Wilson (4 October 1941- 31 July 2025)

Maria Shevtsova

Theatre King of Playwrights: Claus Peymann (1937-2025)

Theatre King of Playwrights: Claus Peymann (1937-2025)

Thomas Irmer

Bahram Beyzaie (1936-2025): A Life Without Compromise, an End in Exile

Bahram Beyzaie (1936-2025): A Life Without Compromise, an End in Exile

Katayoun Salmasi

Table of Contents

Click here for a text-only ToC.

CS/Sc Issue No 32 Section Editors & Editorial Board

Section Editors: Bios
Editorial Board

Editorial Note

Editorial Note | Note éditoriale

Search all CS/Sc issues

Results for {phrase} ({results_count} of {results_count_total})

Displaying {results_count} results of {results_count_total}

More results...

Call for Papers & Essays

Issue #34: Performing the Politics of Peace: Locational Dramaturgies and the Public Space

Issue #35: Scenographic Heritages, Futures and Sustainabilities

Issue #36: Recuperating Nationhood

CS/Sc Newsletter

Leave this field empty if you're human:

THEATRE RECORD

Subscribe to THEATRE RECORD and get instant access to FORTY YEARS OF BRITISH THEATRE HISTORY. Full reviews, credits and photographs Quickly searchable on line, updated daily...

Contact CS/Sc

Click here for the CS/Sc contact form

INTERNATIONAL THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL GUIDE

Check our new updated page and world festival map!

Special Page

Inter-Connecting: A Collection of Useful Links

Notices

Publication Ethics / Éthique de publication

Submission Guidelines / Soumission d’articles

Style Sheet / Protocole abrégé

CS/Sc indexing

Critical Stages/Scènes critiques is indexed by SCOPUS, ProQuest, EBSCO, DOAJ, MIAR, ERIH Plus, DRJI, GOOGLE SCHOLAR and listed in the Ulrich’s web Global Serials

CS/Sc Facebook page

CS/Sc Issues

No 32 – Dec ’25

No 32 – Dec ’25

No 31 – Jun ’25

No 31 – Jun ’25

No 30 – Dec ’24

No 30 – Dec ’24

No 29 – Jun ’24

No 29 – Jun ’24

No 28 – Dec ’23

No 28 – Dec ’23

No 27 – Jun ’23

No 27 – Jun ’23

No 26 – Dec ’22

No 26 – Dec ’22

No 25 – Jun ’22

No 25 – Jun ’22

No 24 – Dec ’21

No 24 – Dec ’21

No 23 – Jun ’21

No 23 – Jun ’21

No 22 – Dec ’20

No 22 – Dec ’20

No 21 – Jun ’20

No 21 – Jun ’20

No 20 – Dec ’19

No 20 – Dec ’19

No 19 – Jun ’19

No 19 – Jun ’19

No 18 – Dec ’18

No 18 – Dec ’18

No 17 – Jun ’18

No 17 – Jun ’18

No 16 – Dec ’17

No 16 – Dec ’17

No 15 – Jun ’17

No 15 – Jun ’17

No 14 – Dec ’16

No 14 – Dec ’16

No 13 – Jun ’16

No 13 – Jun ’16

No 12 – Dec ’15

No 12 – Dec ’15

No 11 – Sep ’15

No 11 – Sep ’15

No 10 – Oct ’14

No 10 – Oct ’14

No 9 – Feb ’14

No 8 – Jun ’13

No 7 – Dec ’12

No 6 – Jun ’12

No 5 – Dec ’11

No 4 – Jun ’11

No 3 – Nov ’10

No 2 – Apr ’10

No 1 – Nov ’09

CS/Sc Supporters

JIN XING Dance Theatre

JIN XING Dance Theatre

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Department of Theatre - University of Illinois

Department of Theatre - University of Illinois

The views and opinions expressed in Critical Stages/Scènes critiques are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the journal

Limitation de responsabilité : Les articles publiés dans Critical Stages/Scènes critiques expriment l’opinion de leurs auteurs et ne reflètent pas nécessairement la politique officielle ou la position de la revue

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Publication Ethics

Critical Stages/Scènes critiques, #32, December 2026

e-ISSN: 2409-7411

All articles published by CS/Sc are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution International License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.