Editorial Note: Performing the Contemporary Condition
Note éditoriale : Réalisation de la condition contemporaine
Savas Patsalidis, Editor-in-Chief
Special Topic
ACCELERATION
Guest Editors: Manuel García Martínez (Spain) and Annita Costa Malufe (Brazil)
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Multiple Faces of Tempo and Speed in Theatre
Manuel Garcia Martinez and Annita Costa Malufe
Fast, Short-Lived and Exclusive: Rethinking Arts Policy in Accelerated Time
Amarílis Felizes
Scenographic Tempo and Digital Collaboration
Patrick Rizzotti
“Bridget is there”: Accelerating the Cybernetic Subject in Lauren Mooney and James Yeatman’s More Life
Richard Jordan
Épuiser l´accélération : une performance du groupe brésilien Teatro da Vertigem
Annita Costa Malufe et Eduardo Reis Silva
Anxious Times/Anxious Timings: Nonorganic Rhythms in the Choreography of Lucy Guerin
Andrew Fuhrmann
The Velocity of Stillness: Acceleration in Digital Radio Drama in Pandemic Times
Sofia Karagianni and Marina Rigou
Time Out of Joint: Zoom Theatre and the Aesthetics of Acceleration in Wang Chong’s The Plague
Manuel García Martinez and Yan Yan
Keeping Communities in Spontaneity Working on their Feet: The Concept of Acceleration in Applied Theatre Practice
Keneth Bamuturaki
Accelerated Rhythms: Performance, Tradition, and Transformation in 21st Century Assamese Theatre
Bhaskar Jyoti Borah
Essays I
Editor: Yana Meerzon (Canada)
The Poetics of Parrhesia: Dramaturgies of Testimony at the Intersection of the Intimate and the Political
Ana Pfeiffer Quiroz
Mythmaking, Cultural Memory, and Postcolonial Dramaturgy in Kung Paano Nanalo sa Karera si Rosang Taba
S Anril P. Tiatco and Jonas Gabriel Garcia
Butoh-fu as a Devising Tool in Mixed-media Performance Making
Eleni Kolliopoulou
Different Pasts/Shared Futures : Performing Pictures (Poter Gaan) in the UK for a Better Future
A.M.M. Noor-Us-Saiyem Khan and Farjana Kabir
When the Stage Becomes Solace for Exile: 40 Minutes Exile and the Concept of Reactive Theatre
Józef Legierski
Acting and Reenacting: Or How Videogames Transform the Role of the Audience
George Vasilikaris
Reframing Dashavatar: Socio-Political Transformations Shaping Mise-en-Scène and Audience Engagement in South Konkan Folk Art
Poorva Waman Pandit and Mahesh Kumar Mishra
Transhistorical Dialogues: Recanonizing Shakespeare on the Contemporary Turkish Stage – PART 2
Burak Urucu
Essays II
Dramaturgies of Interstitiality
Guest Editors: Nelson Barre (USA) and Stephanie Sandberg (USA)
Guest Editors’ Note. Dramaturgies of Interstitiality: Technology, Fragmentation, and the Composite Body in Contemporary Performance
Nelson Barre and Stephanie Sandberg
Towards a Meta-technological Ecocritical Dramaturgy: Entangling Digital Environments with Human “Lived” Bodies in Automata
Graça P. Corrêa
Digital Dramaturgy as Composite-Body Making: The Hunger Games: On Stage and Paddington: The Musical
Bernadette Cochrane
Beckett’s Dramaturgy of Fragmentation and the Translation of Fragmentary Greek Tragedies
Emma Cole
Technological Weavings: The Good, The God and The Guillotine
Jane Turner
Inter/National Reflections
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
A Portal with an Unusual Code? Reflections on Peking Opera
Kalina Stefanova
Second Troupe of Peking Opera Performing a Mongolian Classical Drama
Tumurkhu Namaa, Dashdondog Batsaikhan, and Altangerel Munkh-Orgil
Contemporary Dance as a Political Tool on the Lithuanian Stage
Vaidas Jauniškis
Iona (Jonah) in Translation: Purcărete’s Allegory Between the Local and the Transnational
Ion M. Tomuș
Creating Open Ended Gatherings: Reflections on the Meetings of TEB Oyun Magazine On and Off the Page
Eylem Ejder
Staging Instability: Bodies, Power, and Postdramatic Forms at MITEM
Savas Patsalidis
Disappearing Acts: Two Trips to the Theatre in France on the Edge of War
Rachel Shteir
Between Otherness and Roots: The ALTERnative Biennale Teatro 2026
Savas Patsalidis
Conferences
Editor: Hana Strejčková (Czech Republic)
Editor’s Note. Reconfiguring Presence: Performing Arts, Technology, and the Future of Embodied Experience
Hana Strejčková
Songs of Theatre and Robots – How AI Voices Cope in Theatre Settings
Marius-Alexandru Teodorescu
Re-Writing Theatre: Spectatorship and Technology in the Age of Digital Expansion
Adelina Laura Bulibașa
Acting in VR Theatre Productions: Performance Capture
Anca Ghenoside
Digital Archiving of One-to-One Performance: From Singular Co-Presence to Collective Engagement
Ana Tecar
Framing Illness Stories in Theatre – An Identitarian and Storytelling Approach
Daniela Șilindean
Inducing the Theta State through an Interactive Artistic Installation
Andrea Iacob
Distributed Bodies and Automatic Sensorium: AI in Performing Arts (four case studies)
Horea Avram
Missing Futures: Theatre Research and Education in 21st-Century Romania
Cosmin Matei
Interviews
Editor: Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Iraqi Theatre Between Rupture and Resilience: An Introduction and Two Practitioner Conversations
Farah Ali
From East Berlin to a Beijing Teahouse: A Conversation with Dramaturg Sebastian Kaiser
Chaomei Chen
“Driven by uncertainty”: Interview with Júlia Rázusová
Dária Fojtíková Fehérová
Performance Reviews
Editor: Matti Linnavuori (Finland)
Thus Spake Wilson
Vēsma Lēvalde
A Manifesto for an Age of Violence
Ieva Rodiņa
Latvian Theatre Starts to Leave a Mark in Europe
Lauma Mellēna-Bartkeviča
Wicked Versailles in Helsinki
Henna Raatikainen
With Hamlet in the Stall—Is Shakespeare down the Drain?
Alexandra Dietz
Your Shakespeare Is No Longer Your Shakespeare
Marta Brkljačić
And the Rest is Silence …
Dieter Topp
What Brecht Can Teach Artists in Exile
Azadeh Sharifi
Un Misanthrope interlope
Selim Lander
Choreographing Expenditure: The Politics of the Erotic in Bloody Moon
Paraskevi Tektonidou
Armenia Puts its Epic on Stage
Anna Grigorievna Asatryan and Margarita Kamalyan
Post-Epic Theatre and Ostermeier’s An Enemy of the People
Antonia Tsamouris
Dejvice Theatre Showcase 2026: a Closer Look
Kamelia Nikolova
Book Reviews
Editor: Katayoun Salmasi (Iran/USA)
Pierre Notte, L’Effort d’être spectateur et L’Acteur, ça se saurait si ça servait à quelque chose
Selim Lander
Theatre, Activism, and the Limits of Political Spectacle
Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri
Global Revolutions, Uneven Coverage
Lenka Pichlíková-Burke
Performing Nationalism in Russia
Alisa Ballard Lin
Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir
Lou Harry
In Memoriam
Editor: Critical Stages/Scènes critiques
Disparition de Valère Novarina (1942-2026), un vrai démiurge
Jean-Pierre Han
Making Ideas Dance – In Memoriam: Tom Stoppard
Michael Billington
“Less is More”: Remembering Baz Kershaw
Marissia Fragkou and Philip Hager
