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Issue n.º 5 : December 2011

Editorial | Yun-Cheol Kim

Special Topics : Theatre and Exile (Section Editor: Don Rubin)

Don Rubin | Editorial Comment | Theatre and Exile: An Introduction

Yana Meerzon | Theatre in Exile: Defining the Field as Performing Odyssey

Savas Patsalidis | Looking Back to Greece: Exiles in the Ancient World

Lamberto Tassinari | John Florio: The Case For Shakespeare As Exile

Liisa Byckling | Michael Chekhov: Teaching (Acting) in a Foreign Land

Manabu Noda | Through the Eyes of the Other:
The Many Faces of Chong Wishing/Jung Euishin/Chong Wishin

Maria Shevtsova | Yury Lyubimov in Interview with Maria Shevtsova, 15 April 2011, St Petersburg

Interviews (Section Editor: Randy Gener)

Randy Gener | Editorial Comment | The Critical Act of Conversationn

Tiago Bartolomeu Costa | “We Make the Sublime Maneuver, Constantly Putting Ourselves on the Verge of Falling”
— Interview with the Portuguese Collective Teatro Praga

Randy Gener | “Fear. Hope. The Life Force”: Why I Write Plays
— Interview with Craig Lucas, U.S. Playwright, Screenwriter, Film and Stage Director

Ioana Moldovan | “Looking Back Now After Seven Decades of Theatre Activity”
— Interview with the Romanian Actor and Director Ion Lucian

Randy Gener | “That Point in the Drama Where It Starts to Hurt, That’s Where the Work Gets Interesting”
— Interview with Roland Shimmelpfennig, German Playwright and Director

Nelko Nelkovski | “I Believe in a Theatre That Lives and Breathes Like a Rock 'n' Roll Band”
— Interview with Srdjan Janićiević, Macedonian Theatre Director

Randy Gener | “Trying to Look at Opera From the Pillars of Theatre”
— Interview with Ruth Margraff, U.S. Playwright and Librettist

Deepa Punjani | “We Have Been Silenced into Submission; It’s All Skin-Deep Democracy”
— Interview with Ramu Ramanathan, Indian Playwright and Director

Ngozi Udengwu | “You Do Not Have to Mention Names, No Matter Whose Ox is Gored”
— Interview with Nigerian Playwright and Director Stella ‘Dia Oyedepo

Essays (Section Editor: Maria Helena Serôdio)

Maria Helena Serôdio | Editorial Comment

Luís Miguel Cintra | What is Theatre about?

Normunds Akots | Latvian anthropology à la Alvis Hermanis

Patrice Pavis | Questions au passé : à propos de la pièce de Kim Kwang Lim et sa mise en scène par Yoon, Jeongseop

Patricia Keeney & Don Rubin | Notes From Canada : What Is A Classic? And Why? And When?

Louise Vigeant | Sophocle, avec ou sans Bertrand Cantat

Irène Sadowska-Guillon | Chroniques de la société japonaise : « Théâtre dansé » de Toshiki Okada

Conference Papers (Section Editor: Mark Brown)

Mark Brown | Editorial Comment

Savas Patsalidis | (Un)Critical (Re)positioning

Matti Linnavuori | Whose Performance Is It Anyway?

Tomaž Toporišič | Critique and Criticism? Can They Survive in a Time of Intertextuality, Intermediality and Corporate Capitalism?

Performance Reviews (Section Editor: Matti Linnavuori)

Matti Linnavuori | Editorial Comment | Points of Comparison in Performance Reviews

Alvina Ruprecht | Lettres d'Amour à Staline; Rencontre fantasmée entre l'artiste et son bourreau

Tomasz Milkowski | In Search of a Door

Güzin Yamaner | Once Again, a Woman’s Murder Becomes Necessary on Stage

Ludmila Patlanjoglu | “The Oscar for Drama,” Sumptuous Ceremony in Saint Petersburg
: Europe Theatre Prize, April 2011, in St Petersburg, Russia

Lissa Tyler Renaud | “In Place of Situations”: Gertrude Stein’s Libretto Liberato

Matti Linnavuori | A Mischievous Look at Post-1989 Democratic Theatre

Yun-Cheol Kim | Edinburgh Meets Asia in a Big Way

Daria Dimiu | Faute de dieux, on se sert des mortels

Christine Matvienko | To Be Honest in Moscow

Irène Sadowska-Guillon | Danser le Chili & Un cinéma pour incarner la danse

Patrice Pavis | On Self-portrait by Nam Jeong ho

Brent Meersman | German Discovers Opera in Africa

Kamelia Nikolova | Ice-cold Winter Landscapes after Love: Shakespeare in Sfumato, Sofia

Book Reviews (Section Editor: Don Rubin)

Irène Sadowska-Guillon | Antoine Vitez : Trois fois Électre (Antoine Vitez : Three Times Electra) (France)

Maria Zărnescu | Bricabrac : Du cauchemar réel au réalisme magique
(Bricabrac :From Nightmare to Magic Realism) By Lucian Pintilié (Romania)

Critics on Criticism

Yun-Cheol Kim | In Defense of Inter-Cultural/National Criticism