Table of Contents
Editorial | Éditorial
Yun-Cheol Kim
Special Topic: The Spectator
Section Editor: Patrice Pavis
Editorial Comment
Patrice Pavis
Writing the Embodied Experience: Ekphrastic and Creative Writing as Audience Research
Matthew Reason
Acts of Spectating: The Dramaturgy of the Audience’s Experience in Contemporary Theatre
Peter M. Boenisch
Public Sphere and Contemporary Performance
Christopher Balme
Postdramatic Spectatorship: Participate or Else
Rachel Fensham
Réflexions sur le spectateur dans le théâtre pré- et postdramatique
Hans Thies Lehmann
Le point de vue du spectateur
Patrice Pavis
Interviews
Section Editor: Randy Gener
“The Balkans are Full of Drama” — Interview with Macedonian Playwright Dejan Dukovski
Nelko Nelkovski
“A Gleam in Her Eye: Language Theatre in the Visual Age” — Interview with U.S. Actor and Director Barbara Oliver
Lissa Tyler Renaud
«L’acteur et la forme marionnettique dans le théâtre polyphonique» — Interview avec l’acteur français, marionnettiste et metteur en scène Johanny Bert
Irène Sadowska Guillon
“The Playwright Must be Relevant, Proactive, and at Times Pre-empt Society” — Interview with Nigerian Playwright, Director and Actor Ahmed Yerima
Dr. Ngozi Udengwu
“Underneath All Plays are Questions about Memory and Identity” — Interview with Playwright Chiori Miyagawa
Randy Gener
“Writing Can Be Torn Up, Strange, Misfit” — Interview with U.S. Playwright Erik Ehn
Randy Gener
Essays
Section Editor: Maria Helena Serôdio
Essays: Celebrating Theatre
Maria Helena Serôdio
An Overview of Theatertreffen in Berlin 2012
Maria Shevtsova
Les fleurs et les pleurs: A propos de l’installation et du théâtre multimédia de Park Eunyoung
Patrice Pavis
The Shadow of August Strindberg
Margareta Sörenson
The Fabric of Traditional Theatre: Archived Memories and the Question of Cultural Ownership
Manabu Noda
Conference Papers
Section Editors: Mark Brown & Savas Patsalidis
Editorial Commentary: Theatre Beyond the Theatre
Savas Patsalidis
Stepping off the Stage: Luís Castro’s Concept of “Perfinst” and his Theatre Project Karnart
Maria Helena Serôdio (Portugal)
The Local Theatre “in Ruins”
Magdalena Gołaczyńska (Poland)
En dehors du théâtre, au cœur du théâtre
Michel Vaïs (Quebec/Canada)
Theatre Beyond the Theatre: The South African Case
Brent Meersman (South Africa)
Re-visiting the Community: The Politics of Theatre Beyond the Theatre
Savas Patsalidis (Greece)
Performance Reviews
Section Editor: Matti Linnavuori
Editorial Notice
Matti Linnavuori
Estonian Theatre: Shiny Classics and Some Shaky Modernism
Ian Herbert
Verbal vs. Physical Theatre on Stage Helsinki 2012
Yun-Cheol Kim
Beyond the Clichés of Miss Julie
Mihail Baykov
Béla Pintér Rewrites the Battles of 1848
Judit Csáki
La traversée de l’Esprit
Daria Dimiu
Kukura Sets his Artistic Credo against Soap Operas
Tomasz Milkowski
A Secret Encounter at The Shakespeare Festival in Craiova
Maria Zărnescu
Sibiu Stuns with Purcărete
Matti Linnavuori and Lissa Tyler Renaud
The Live Digitizing of the Actor
Primož Jesenko
The Fashion for Policy
Christine Matvienko
In the Shadow of Cate Blanchett
Kalina Stefanova
Shakespeare on the Saint Lawrence: A Summer Romp on the US-Canadian Border
Alvina Ruprecht
Le théâtre de la cruauté comique
Irène Sadowska-Guillon
Laying Bridges in the Gulf
Savas Patsalidis
Guru Grapples with Global Concerns
Ajay Joshi
Between Holograms and Special Effects, Richard Maxwell and Philippe Quesne Challenge the Audience
Sergio Lo Gatto
Avignon: mi-figue, mi-raisin
Jean-Pierre Han
Book Reviews
Section Editor: Don Rubin
Strindberg: A Life, By Sue Prideaux, 371 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
Patricia Keeney (Canada)
Exorcism, A play in one-act by Eugene O’Neill with a Foreword by Edward Albee and an Introduction by Louise Bernard, 85 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
Temple Hauptfleisch (South Africa)
Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, By Kamal Al-Solaylee, 205 pp. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2012.
Don Rubin (Canada)
Trans(per)Forming Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work, Edited by Judith Rudakoff, 264 pp. Chicago: Intellect, 2012.
Don Rubin (Canada)
Critics on Criticism
Section Editor: Yun-Cheol Kim
The Critic is Not an Artist
Mark Brown