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December 2012: Issue No. 7

Editorial

Yun-Cheol Kim | Editorial

Yun-Cheol Kim | Éditorial



Special Topics: The Spectator (Section Editor: Patrice Pavis)

Patrice Pavis | Editorial Comment

Matthew Reason | Writing the Embodied Experience: Ekphrastic and Creative Writing as Audience Research

Peter M. Boenisch | Acts of Spectating: The Dramaturgy of the Audience’s Experience in Contemporary Theatre

Christopher Balme | Public Sphere and Contemporary Performance

Rachel Fensham | Postdramatic Spectatorship: Participate or Else

Hans Thies Lehmann | Réflexions sur le spectateur dans le théâtre pré- et postdramatique

Patrice Pavis | Le point de vue du spectateur



Interviews (Section Editor: Randy Gener)

Emil Iliev | “Brave Decisions Must Develop the Artist” — Interview with Bulgarian Scenic and Costume Designer Nikola Toromanov

Nelko Nelkovski | “The Balkans are Full of Drama” — Interview with Macedonian Playwright Dejan Dukovski

Lissa Tyler Renaud | “A Gleam in Her Eye: Language Theatre in the Visual Age” — Interview with U.S. Actor and Director Barbara Oliver

Irène Sadowska Guillon | «L'acteur et la forme marionnettique dans le théâtre polyphonique» — Interview avec l'acteur français, marionnettiste et metteur en scène Johanny Bert

Dr. Ngozi Udengwu | “The Playwright Must be Relevant, Proactive, and at Times Pre-empt Society” — Interview with Nigerian Playwright, Director and Actor Ahmed Yerima

Randy Gener | “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


                                                   

Essays (Section Editor: Maria Helena Serôdio)

Maria Helena Serôdio | Essays: Celebrating Theatre

Maria Shevtsova | An Overview of Theatertreffen in Berlin 2012

Patrice Pavis | Les fleurs et les pleurs: A propos de l’installation et du théâtre multimédia de Park Eunyoung

Margareta Sörenson | The Shadow of August Strindberg

Manabu Noda | The Fabric of Traditional Theatre: Archived Memories and the Question of Cultural Ownership


Conference Papers (Section Editors: Mark Brown & Savas Patsalidis)

Savas Patsalidis | Editorial Commentary: Theatre Beyond the Theatre

Maria Helena Serôdio (Portugal) | Stepping off the Stage: Luís Castro’s Concept of “Perfinst” and his Theatre Project Karnart

Magdalena Gołaczyńska (Poland) | The Local Theatre “in Ruins”

Michel Vaïs (Quebec/Canada) | En dehors du théâtre, au cœur du théâtre

Brent Meersman (South Africa) | Theatre Beyond the Theatre: The South African Case

Savas Patsalidis (Greece) | Re-visiting the Community: The Politics of Theatre Beyond the Theatre



Performance Reviews (Section Editor: Matti Linnavuori)

Matti Linnavuori | Editorial Notice

Ian Herbert | Estonian Theatre: Shiny Classics and Some Shaky Modernism

Yun-Cheol Kim | Verbal vs. Physical Theatre on Stage Helsinki 2012

Mihail Baykov | Beyond the Clichés of Miss Julie

Judit Csáki | Béla Pintér Rewrites the Battles of 1848

Daria Dimiu | La traversée de l’Esprit

Tomasz Milkowski | Kukura Sets his Artistic Credo against Soap Operas

Maria Zărnescu | A Secret Encounter at The Shakespeare Festival in Craiova

Matti Linnavuori and Lissa Tyler Renaud | Sibiu Stuns with Purcărete

Primož Jesenko | The Live Digitizing of the Actor

Christine Matvienko | The Fashion for Policy

Kalina Stefanova | In the Shadow of Cate Blanchett

Alvina Ruprecht | Shakespeare on the Saint Lawrence: A Summer Romp on the US-Canadian Border

Irène Sadowska-Guillon | Le théâtre de la cruauté comique

Savas Patsalidis | Laying Bridges in the Gulf

Ajay Joshi | Guru Grapples with Global Concerns

Sergio Lo Gatto | Between Holograms and Special Effects, Richard Maxwell and Philippe Quesne Challenge the Audience

Jean-Pierre Han | Avignon: mi-figue, mi-raisin



Book Reviews (Section Editor: Don Rubin)

Patricia Keeney (Canada) | Strindberg: A Life, By Sue Prideaux, 371 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Temple Hauptfleisch (South Africa) | 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.

Don Rubin (Canada) | 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.

                     

                          

Critics on Criticism (Section Editor: Yun-Cheol Kim)

Mark Brown  | The Critic is Not an Artist

Andrea Tompa | “I am not going to say what I think” Criticism and censorship. A case-study of Romanian criticism in the Ceausescu period