Volume 22(2) Contents


 

Introduction

From the Years of Utopia to the Years of Dystopia
Savas Patsalidis and Anna Stavrakopoulou

The Geographies of Contemporary Greek Playwriting

The Diverse Landscape of Contemporary Greek Playwriting
Lina Rosi

Greek Society During the Period of Crisis: The Role of History as a Mechanism of Repelling the Present
Theodoros Grammatas

Transformations of “Home” in Contemporary Greek Drama: From a Domicentric View toward Space Decenterings
Ioanna Alexandri

The “Polis” and the “Political” in Contemporary Greek Drama since the Eruption of the Greek Crisis: A First Appraisal (2009 -2015)
Dimitra Kondylaki

About Sameness, Otherness, Authenticity, and Hybridity “Facing Mirrors”: Contemporary Greek Theatre Productions and the Issue of Identity
Grigoris Ioannidis

Self and Other in Aeschylus’ Persians. A propos de Gotscheff
Eleni Papazoglou

Crisis, Ruptures, and the Rapture of an Imperceptible Aesthetics: A Recent History of the Hellenic Festival
Eleftheria Ioannidou and Natasha Siouzouli

Directors’ Theatre in Greece: Stages of Authorship in the Work of Michael Marmarinos, Yiannis Houvardas, and Theodoros Terzopoulos
Avra Sidiropoulou

Refashioning Dramaturgy: A Stage Rewriting of a 19th-c. Play in 2013 Greece
Ioulia Pipinia and Andreas Dimitriadis

Alternative Geographies of (Re)Acting

Reframing the Real: The Blitz Theatre Group and the Awareness of Time
Katia Arfara

Greek History as Environmental Performance: Iannis Xenakis’ Mycenae Polytopon and Beyond
Marina Kotzamani

The Streets Belong to the People: Scenes and Heterotopias in the City
Giorgos Pefanis

Whose Performance? The Politics of Protest and Terror in Greek Civic Life
Elizabeth Sakellaridou

Review Essays

Resonances: The Sound of Performance
Johannes Birringer

Non-Still Life: A Mosaic Portrait of Dimitris Papaioannou
Katerina Delikonstantinidou

Book Reviews

Angelaki, Vicky, ed. Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp 192. ISBN: 978-1-137-01012-4.
Reviewed by Elzbieta Baraniecka

Durham, Leslie Atkins. Women’s Voices on American Stages in the Early Twenty-First Century. Sarah Ruhl and her Contemporaries. New York: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2013. Pp 215. ISBN: 978-1-137-28710-6.
Reviewed by Noelia Hernando-Real

McConachie, Bruce. Theatre and Mind. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp 82. ISBN: 978-0-230-27583-6.
Reviewed by Barbara Ozieblo

Rabey, David Ian, and Sarah Goldingay, eds. Howard Barker’s Art of Theatre: Essays on his Plays, Poetry and Production Work. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2013. Pp 238. ISBN: 978- 0-7190-8929-9.
Reviewed by Chris Megson

Rapti, Vassiliki. Ludics in Surrealist Theatre and Beyond. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. (Series: Ashgate Studies in Surrealism.) Pp 210. ISBN 978-1-4094-2906-7.
Reviewed by Ioulia Pipinia

Contributors