Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice.
Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice.
Avra Sidiropoulou is Associate Professor at the M.A. in Theatre Studies Programme at the Open University of Cyprus and Artistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company. She is the author of Directions for Directing. Theatre and Method (Routledge 2018) and Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan 2011). She was Visiting Researcher at MIT and the Graduate Centre at CUNY, the Freie University, the Universities of Surrey, Leeds, and Tokyo (Japan Foundation Fellow). Avra has lectured, directed, and conducted theatre workshops in many parts of the globe. Recent directing works include Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (Cyprus Theatre Organization 2022), Bryony Lavery's Frozen (Skala Theatre 2020), Phaedra I- (text: Sidiropoulou-Tristan Bates Theatre, London 2019), and A Doll's House (Technochoros Ethal 2019). She was nominated for the League of Professional Theatre Women Gilder/Goigney International Award 2020. https://persona.gr/en/people/avra-sidiropoulou/.
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Part 1: Crisis as Tragedy and Judgment 1. Tragedy and Crisis: Staging Forced Displacement and Its Reluctant Hero Yana Meerzon 2. Beyond Suffering or Resolution: Tragedy and the Twenty-First Century Collective Experience Avra Sidiropoulou 3. Prophets Needed: Five Easy Pieces and La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) by Milo Rau Carol Martin estimony 1.1. Avra Sidiropoulou in Conversation with Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll estimony 1.2. Cards of Identities (Poetic luxury) Hanane Hajj Ali estimony 1.3. Chorus and Crisis in the Contemporary United States Peter Campbell Part 2: Texts and Contexts of Crisis: Power/lessness, Precarity and Identity Politics 4. Caesar Must (Not) Die. Italian Political 'Caesars' in the New Millennium Silvia Bigliazzi 5. Leaving the world good or leaving a better world? Theatre and crisis through the lenses of Bertolt Brecht Aldo Milohnic 6. Tragic and Post-tragic Representations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama: Fractured Togetherness in Lynn Nottage's Sweat and Annie Baker's The Flick Ana Fernandez Caparrós 7. Modern African Drama in Crisis? Two African Authors in Search of Identity Taiwo Afolabi, Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah and Ogah Mark Onwe Part 3: Stage Narratives of Failure or Visions of a Better World? Bankrupt States, Violent Cities, Global Resistance Civic Consciousness and the Poetics of Participation 8. "Theatre remains traditionalist and Eurocentric." About Milo Rau's "theatre of crisis" Freddy Decreus 9. "How Many More Thousands of Years?": Dystopia, Otherness, and the Greek Crisis in the Work of Three Contemporary Greek Dramatists Constantina Ziropoulou 10. Theatre as Assembly: 'Theatre Commons' Radical Dramaturgy Tadashi Uchino 11. Marca España. Making Theatre from Precarity, State Violence and Fiesta Ana Contreras Elvira estimony 3.1. Aoidoi of a Country's Living History Lupe Gehrenbech Part 4: Reflections on the Covid 19 Pandemic and the Crisis of the Anthropocene 12. For the theatre of the Anthropocene Frank Raddatz Testimony 4.1. Theatre in Covid imes: A Report from Greece Anestis Azas Testimony 4.2. All is related to Me Su Xiaogang Testimony 4.3. Plays (we never staged) to survive Miguel Rojo and Javier Hernando (Los Barbaros) Testimony 4.4. Troy Too [Original playscript] Karen Malpede (Theatre Three Collaborative)
Part 1: Crisis as Tragedy and Judgment 1. Tragedy and Crisis: Staging Forced Displacement and Its Reluctant Hero Yana Meerzon 2. Beyond Suffering or Resolution: Tragedy and the Twenty-First Century Collective Experience Avra Sidiropoulou 3. Prophets Needed: Five Easy Pieces and La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) by Milo Rau Carol Martin estimony 1.1. Avra Sidiropoulou in Conversation with Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll estimony 1.2. Cards of Identities (Poetic luxury) Hanane Hajj Ali estimony 1.3. Chorus and Crisis in the Contemporary United States Peter Campbell Part 2: Texts and Contexts of Crisis: Power/lessness, Precarity and Identity Politics 4. Caesar Must (Not) Die. Italian Political 'Caesars' in the New Millennium Silvia Bigliazzi 5. Leaving the world good or leaving a better world? Theatre and crisis through the lenses of Bertolt Brecht Aldo Milohnic 6. Tragic and Post-tragic Representations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama: Fractured Togetherness in Lynn Nottage's Sweat and Annie Baker's The Flick Ana Fernandez Caparrós 7. Modern African Drama in Crisis? Two African Authors in Search of Identity Taiwo Afolabi, Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah and Ogah Mark Onwe Part 3: Stage Narratives of Failure or Visions of a Better World? Bankrupt States, Violent Cities, Global Resistance Civic Consciousness and the Poetics of Participation 8. "Theatre remains traditionalist and Eurocentric." About Milo Rau's "theatre of crisis" Freddy Decreus 9. "How Many More Thousands of Years?": Dystopia, Otherness, and the Greek Crisis in the Work of Three Contemporary Greek Dramatists Constantina Ziropoulou 10. Theatre as Assembly: 'Theatre Commons' Radical Dramaturgy Tadashi Uchino 11. Marca España. Making Theatre from Precarity, State Violence and Fiesta Ana Contreras Elvira estimony 3.1. Aoidoi of a Country's Living History Lupe Gehrenbech Part 4: Reflections on the Covid 19 Pandemic and the Crisis of the Anthropocene 12. For the theatre of the Anthropocene Frank Raddatz Testimony 4.1. Theatre in Covid imes: A Report from Greece Anestis Azas Testimony 4.2. All is related to Me Su Xiaogang Testimony 4.3. Plays (we never staged) to survive Miguel Rojo and Javier Hernando (Los Barbaros) Testimony 4.4. Troy Too [Original playscript] Karen Malpede (Theatre Three Collaborative)
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