Editorial Note: Remapping Theatre in an Era of Sociopolitical Uncertainty
Note éditoriale : Redéfinir le théâtre à une époque d’incertitude sociopolitique
Savas Patsalidis, Editor-in-Chief
Special Topic
REMAPPING ASIAN THEATRES
Towards Inter-Asia Theatre Studies: Modernity, Historical Conditions and Changing Ways of Seeing
Guest Editors: Jen-Hao Hsu (Walter), Sir Anril P. Tiatco, and Deniz Başar
Introduction
Encountering the Immediate Other: Towards Inter-Asia Theatre Studies
Walter Jen-Hau Hsu, Deniz Bașar, S Anril Tiatco
Transhistorical Dialogues: Recanonizing Shakespeare on the Contemporary Turkish Stage
Burak Urucu
Cross-Cultural Reinterpretation: The Evolution of Mime in 1980s China
Yiping HUANG
‘Traditional’ Kabuki – from Business Practice to National Policy
Tove Johanna Bjoerk
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
Fatma Onat
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 Request sa Radyo
Popo Tabao Amascual
Voices In-between: Three Contemporary Asian Theatre Makers Crossing Borders
Beri Juraic
Whose Intercultural Theatre?: A Case Study of NSYSU-Chula Summer Intercultural Theatre Program
Jen-Hao Hsu (Walter)
Essays
Editor: Yana Meerzon (Canada)
“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
Jahnvi Sharma
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
Janine Lewis, Mienke Fouché, and Laetitia Orlandi
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 Jeanne et les Juges
Ararat Aghasyan and Margarita Kamalyan
Reenacting the Tragedy of the Defeated
Katerina Arvaniti
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
Vesma Levalde and Sigita Ignatjeva
Inter/National Reflections
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
A Dramaturgical Manifesto of a Filipino Eco-theatre: Indigenous Narratives for a Socially Engaged Performance
Sir Anril P. Tiatco, Jem R. Javier and Gaby Asanza
Between Mother Tongues and English: Creating a Community of Asian Diaspora Experiences Through Documentary Theatre
Yibin Wang and Yejia Sun
Reliving the Past: Reflections on Reenactments by Dulambuhay Philippine Playback Theatre and Tanghalang Tatsulok
Joe Louie A. Lavaro
Covering Theatre Artists Efforts in New Genres
Brad Hathaway
Fabulamundi, Playwriting Europe. New Voices – an Insider’s View, Review and Interview
Anda Cadariu
Theatre’s Faustian Bargain: Power and Peril in Technology
Marina (Maka) Vasadze and Lasha Chkhartishvili
Borderline Stages: The Trajectory of Freedom Theatre Festival in Narva
Jaak Allik
Alone Together: Solo Theatre in a Plural World
Eleni Gkini
L’adaptation et la mise en scène contemporaine : La Famille Cachée dans les Nuages
Patrice Pavis
Through Foreign Eyes: Reflecting on the Bucharest National Theatre Festival (2025)
Savas Patsalidis
Interviews
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
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
Inna Grünfeldt and Katarina Tomps
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
Farah Ali
Performance Reviews
Editor: Matti Linnavuori (Finland)
Double Double Biker Trouble
Patricia Keeney
In Ransacking Troy, Ancient Greece’s “Forever War” Inspires a Feminist Fantasy
Martin Morrow
Finns Remember Invisible Migrants through Performance
Pirkko Koski
Performing Arts across Borders: Exchange among Three Neighbouring Countries
Takehito Mitsui
Exploring an Arab Zone of Diverse Theatre Cultures
Thomas Irmer
Castellucci’s Amorous Bérénice
Antonia Tsamouris
Antigone de Sophocle à travers l’optique formaliste de Ulrich Rasche
Eleni Gkini
Kielce Showcases Poland’s Contemporary Theatre
Asen Terziev
In Cluj-Napoca Stories Refuse to Fade
Handan Salta
Robert Sturua—an Ambassador of Georgian Theatre on the Global Stage
Marina (Maka) Vasadze
Taire, Mon Antigone – Mythe d’hier, réalité d’aujourd’hui
Selim Lander
Englishness and Humanity: The Revival of 4.48 Psychosis
Tomoko Seki
Encounters with Czechs on the Move
Matti Linnavuori
Perverted Traditions and Psychedelic Ecstasy
Johannes Birringer
Book Reviews
Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)
Shakespeare in the Theatre: The Stratford Festival
Don Rubin
1. Walter Benjamin: Écrits sur le théâtre / 2. Les Mille Plateaux de Walter Benjamin
Selim Lander
Three New Volumes on Finnish Director Jouko Turkka
Outi Lahtinen
Michael Chekhov: 16 Lessons in Kaunas
Lenka Pichlíková-Burke
In Memoriam
Editor: Critical Stages/Scènes critiques
“It Is All the Same Hand”: Robert Wilson (4 October 1941- 31 July 2025)
Maria Shevtsova
Theatre King of Playwrights: Claus Peymann (1937-2025)
Thomas Irmer
Bahram Beyzaie (1936-2025): A Life Without Compromise, an End in Exile
Katayoun Salmasi
