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Issue n.º 5 : December 2011

Editorial

Yun-Cheol Kim | Editorial

Yun-Cheol Kim | Éditorial

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

Don Rubin | 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 Tassarini | 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)

Editorial Comment | The Critical Act of Conversation

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

“Fear. Hope. The Life Force”: Why I Write Plays — Interview with Craig Lucas

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

“That Point in the Drama Where It Starts to Hurt, That's Where the Work Gets Interesting” — Interview with Roland Schimmelpfenning, German Playwright and Director

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

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

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

“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 | Brief Introduction

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)

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