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Editorial | Éditorial
Yun-Cheol Kim


Thalia Prize

Citation: Kapila Vatsyayan
Margareta Sörenson (Sweden)

Acceptance Speech
Kapila Vatsyayan (India)


Special Topic: Theatre and Disaster

Section Editor: Manabu Noda

Editorial Comment | Theatre and Disaster
Manabu Noda (Japan)

A Message from IATC Japan on the 3/11 Earthquake
Kojin Nishido (Japan)

Theatres Shaken by the 3/11 Quake in Japan
Hiroyuki Masaki (Japan)

Trying to Give Shape to an Unending End: Post-3/11 Theatre in Tokyo
Manabu Noda (Japan)

Caught between Solidarity and Hesitation: The 3/11 Earthquake and Theatre in Japan
Morihiro Niino (Japan)

Theatre in a Time of War
Zain Ahmed & Hajirah Mumtaz (Pakistan)


Interviews

Section Editor: Randy Gener

Editorial Comment
Randy Gener (U.S.)

Un théâtre briseur des tabous — Entretien avec Rémi De Vos, dramaturge français
Irène Sadowska-Guillon (France)

“Old Souls into New Souls” — Interview with Robert Goldsby, U.S. Director
Lissa Tyler Renaud (U.S.)

When Hamlet Is in Charge — Interview with Ion Caramitru, Romanian Actor, Director and General Manager of the National Theater in Bucharest
Ioana Moldovan (Romania)

Le théâtre comme lieu de reconnaissance et de résistance — Entretien avec Fausto Paravidino
Irène Sadowska-Guillon (France)

“You Can Twist Time And Space And Find Yourself Somewhere Else” — Interview with Javor Gurdev, Bulgarian Director
Emil Iliev (Bulgaria)


Essays

Section Editor: Maria Helena Serôdio

Le théâtre de Shiro Maeda : Le réel mis en pièces ou l’aventure de l’inconscient
Irène Sadowska-Guillon (France)

La parodie dans le K-POP: Une analyse de « NOBODY », clip de JYP avec les WONDER GIRLS
Patrice Pavis


Conference Papers

Section Editors: Mark Brown & Savas Patsalidis

Editorial Comment
Savas Patsalidis (Greece)

An Introduction to Contemporary Korean Theatre
Yun-Cheol Kim (Korea)

A Westerner Looks East
Ian Herbert (UK)

Multicultural Shakespeare on the Contemporary Stage
Andrzej Żurowski (Poland)


Performance Reviews

Section Editor: Matti Linnavuori

Editorial Comment
Matti Linnavuori (Finland)

Folk Tales and Puppetry Techniques Mingle in Baku
Aydin Talibzadeh (Azerbaijan)

Madeleine et la Chine
Hervé Guay (Canada)

A Hungarian Hamlet of What ifs
Judit Csáki (Hungary)

Baltic Theatre Seeks to Define Rather than Depict History
Mark Brown (UK) & Matti Linnavuori (Finland)

Andrei Serban is Reshaping the Classics
Oltita Cintec (Romania)

Congre et homard de Gaël Octavia : un exercice de haute-école
Selim Lander (France)

Fragments of a Revolutionary Discourse
Sergio Lo Gatto (Italy)

La Tempête, un dialogue interculturel entre Shakespeare et Oh Tae-Suk
Hyun-Sook Shin (Korea)

HOMO! A Gay Fantasy on National Themes
Soila Lehtonen (Finland)


Book Reviews

Section Editor: Don Rubin

World Scenography: 1975-1990, Edited by Peter McKinnon and Eric Fielding, 430 pp. Taiwan: OISTAT, 2012.
Don Rubin (Canada)

Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance, Edited by Karoline Gritzner, 267 pp. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010.
Mark Brown (UK)

Howard Barker Interviews 1980-2010: Conversations in Catastrophe, Edited and introduced by Mark Brown, 214 pp. Bristol and Chicago: intellectbooks, 2011.
Philippe Rouyer (France)


Critics on Criticism

Section Editor: Yun-Cheol Kim

Criticism Beyond Criticism
Yun-Cheol Kim (Korea)