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Critical Stages / Scènes critiques
WebJournal of the International Association of Theatre Critics
www.criticalstages.org

CRITICAL STAGES/SCÈNES CRITIQUES

INVITES SUBMISSIONS FOR CONSIDERATION

CS/SC announces its Issue No. 6 with a call for critical articles, essays, interviews and reviews that contribute to cutting-edge, international discourse on the theatre.

CS/SC aims to document, celebrate, challenge and foster internationally the discipline and the art of theatre criticism, with theatre broadly defined; to employ theatre criticism as a springboard for opening communication between theatre practitioners, theoreticians and the general public; to create “critical space” for the theatre critic to develop and thrive; to increase the general readership for theatre criticism by providing international readers with a source for information and dynamic discussion of themes and trends in contemporary international theatre.

NOTES ON SUBMISSIONS: ENGLISH AND FRENCH

Please submit your article to your Section Editor and to the Editor-in-Chief as an e-mail attachment, double-spaced in MS Word. Articles will typically range from 1500 to 3500 words (10,000 to 20,000 characters including spaces); please check with the Section Editor if the length is not specified below.

We publish articles (not interviews or reviews) with an abstract, not longer than 200 words, in the alternate language. Where possible, please send your article in English with an abstract in French; if this is not possible, send your abstract in English and we will have it translated. Likewise, if possible, please send your article in French with an abstract in English; if this is not possible, send the abstract in French and we will have it translated.

See more Submission Guidelines at

http://www.criticalstages.org/criticalstages5/entry/Submission-Guidelines.

TIMELINE FOR ISSUE NO. 6, 2012
Proposal Period: Now Open
Full Draft Submission Deadline: April 15
Writer Notification Following Readers' Reviews: the end of April
Writer Revisions and Formatting: the first and second weeks of May
Publication: early June

JOURNAL SECTIONS

Please contact directly the editor of the section your proposal relates to

Special Topics will invite three or four authors each to contribute an article or statement on current issues surrounding aesthetic or thematic approaches to theatre; regional or global theatre arts policies; or other interesting phenomena of social significance to the contemporary theatre. The editorial board may also consider unsolicited pieces. Each article will be more or less 15,000 characters (2500-3000 words).

Please note: The Special Topic for the coming issue will be “Theatre and Disaster.”

Section Editor: Manabu Noda  manabunoda1963@hotmail.co.jp

Interviews are intended to compare and contrast the various views of significant theatre artists around the world. To this end, the section editor will provide interviewers with four previously formulated questions to pose. Interviewers are encouraged to ask follow-up questions to further illuminate or deepen the conversation. All articles are in a question-and-answer format, preceded by a critical introduction describing (not listing) the artist’s contributions or offering an explanation of why this person deserves recognition in an international journal. Submissions must include interviewee portrait and photographs of performances discussed in the interview.

Section Editor: Randy Gener rndygener@aol.com

Essays: An essay for this section should offer a critical view on its topic. An essay might give an overview of an artist’s work; we recently printed two “in memoriam” pieces, but an essay might also celebrate a living artist. Alternatively, it could take a historical or analytical approach to a theatre venue, a theme—a recent theme was “painful memories,” for example—or a special questioning, like our previous essays regarding cultural identity and immigrant communities.

Section Editor: Maria Helena Serodio m.h.serodio48@gmail.com

Conference Papers: International theatre symposia and seminars play a vital role in the discussion of live drama throughout the world. The IATC is proud to play its part in this important area of critical work. The “Conference Papers” section will seek to offer an international platform for many of the most interesting and provocative papers presented in these public arenas.

Section Editor: Mark Brown markbrown.teatro@gmail.com

Performance Reviews welcomes critical appraisals of important, controversial, bizarre or simply good performances. The section hopes to report from as many different countries, cultures and languages as possible. The submissions must not exceed 1300 words and must be accompanied by photographs of the performance.

Section Editor: Matti Linnavuori matti.linnavuori@welho.org

Book Reviews will seek to review for each issue of CS/SC a selection of recently-published books (generally not older than 24 months) that are considered to be of national and/or international significance for theatre workers generally and theatre critics and scholars in particular. Each issue should have a lead review of a major book that has been published in either English or French and should have an additional three to five reviews of books published across a range of languages (with particular emphasis on—though certainly not limited to—new books in German and Spanish). Reviews of important books in other languages will normally be published in either English or French.

Section Editor: Don Rubin drubin@yorku.ca

Critics on Criticism invites 1) in-depth profiles of, and interviews with, well-known senior critics: their careers and work, relationships to theatre audiences, conflicts and dilemmas, teaching experience, work in other theatre fields and art forms; and 2) reflections, interviews or surveys on the teaching of criticism; the methodologies, theories and practices of criticism; comparison of courses given in different countries; theatre criticism’s relationship to other art disciplines; practical and theoretical dialogue between critics, scholars and others. Every submission should include basic information on the critic, including major publications, photograph, etc.

Section Editor: Andrea Tompa tompa.andrea@gmail.com

THE CRITICAL STAGES/SCÈNES CRITIQUES EDITORS

IATC President and Editor-in-Chief

Yun-Cheol Kim yunckim911@yahoo.com, Korea

Chef de section: Don Rubin drubin@yorku.ca

Critiques sur la critique

Cela fera place 1) à des profils substantiels de critiques de grande expérience ou à des entrevues avec eux : sur leur carrière et leur parcours, leurs relations avec les publics de théâtre, leurs conflits et dilemmes, leur expérience de l’enseignement, leur travail dans d’autres domaines du théâtre ou formes d’art ; et 2) à des réflexions, entrevues ou enquêtes sur l’enseignement de la critique ; aux méthodologies, théories et pratiques de la critique ; à des comparaisons entre des cours dispensés dans divers pays ; aux relations entre la critique de théâtre et d’autres disciplines artistiques ; à un dialogue pratique et théorique entre critiques, universitaires et autres. Chaque proposition devrait comporter une information de base sur le critique, notamment ses principales publications, une photo, etc.

Chef de section: Andrea Tompa tompa.andrea@gmail.com

RESPONSABLES DE CRITICAL STAGES/SCÈNES CRITIQUES

Président de l’AICT et rédacteur en chef

Yun-Cheol Kim yunckim911@yahoo.com, Corée