“Theatre’s Other: Event and Testimony in British Verbatim Plays” by Clare Finburgh

“…A particular kind of remembering and staging of our transient contemporary “reality” has become prevalent in the UK since the end of the twentieth century: verbatim theatre. This is a form of documentary theatre that stages theatre’s other – events and experiences as they are lived by actual people and rendered in witness testimonies that are transcribed word-for-word, edited into a play, and performed by actors. …”
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Dramatic transfers: Mural painting and religious theatre in the Western Alps during the sixteenth century by Marianne Cailloux

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SHAKESPEARE IN LITHUANIAN by Ema Vyroubalová, Gemma Navickiene

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Shakespeare During Covid-19: Expanding Our Theatrical Horizons by Méline Dumot

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Yorùbá Theatre Practice and Nollywood by Shola Balogun

“…The demand for relevance and the focus on contemporary audience interests all play a significant part in the shift of Yorùbá theatre from stage to film medium. …”
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Writing, rewriting and revisiting the Cold War in Tom Stoppard’s Squaring the Circle. Poland 1980-81 (1984) by Jean Du Verger

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Dramaturgies of Contagion in Contemporary British Speculative Theatre by June Xuandung Pham

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Indigenous Theatre as Resistance: Toronto as a Nexus for Canada’s Burgeoning Indigenous Theatre Scene from Late 1980s to Early 1990s by Raphaela Pavlakos

“…By taking a closer look at Canada’s first Indigenous Theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts, which is based in Toronto, as well as analyzing two fundamental texts, Drew Hayden Taylor’s (Curve Lake First Nations) Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock and Daniel David Moses’ (Delaware/Tuscarora) Almighty Voice and His Wife, this paper will trace the common themes in these two texts that were prevalent in the work of this time, as well as unpack the connection these plays have to place, specifically in their relation to Toronto and the Indigenous Theatre scene there.…”
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A Brief Survey of Gender Parity in the Theatre Industry by Yeliz Biber Vangölü, Florentina Gümüş

“…This study investigates the presence of women as playwrights and directors in the 40 plays uploaded to the National Theatre at Home platform in the year starting with December 2020. …”
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Cultural Formation and Transference Processes of Ancient Greek Theatre by Haluk EMİR, R. Eser KORTANOĞLU

“…The concept of the theatrical, however, is a phenomenon that extends far beyond Hellenic culture, predating the tangible manifestation of theatre by a considerable margin. Although the collective consciousness and ritual practices observed in the Paleolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Ages predate the emergence of Hellenic thought, they played a crucial role in the birth of theatre as a mental concept. …”
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Angel in “the Cartesian theatre” – Aquinas and the mind-body problem by Tomasz Stępień

“…Such approach was even called biological, because of the stress on the role which body plays in human actions. Therefore Aquinas proposition could be perceived the way of overcoming the dualism and removing some of the dilemas which are linked with “soul hypothesis” understood in traditional way. …”
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De la voix au théâtre au théâtre de la voix : l’envers du décor poétique de Robert Browning by Yann Tholoniat

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Outline of a theatre proxemics in times of pandemic. Redefinition of spaces by Vittorio Fiore

“…The objective is to add new chapters to the ‘theatre proxemics’ that governs human behaviour in these spaces of social aggregation, in order to realign them to the prescriptions dictated by the pandemic. …”
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An alien among aliens: Translating multicultural identities in Singapore’s contemporary theatre by Bei Hu

“… This article explores the conflated roles of translator and playwright embodied by Kuo Pao Kun (1939-2002), a doyen figure acclaimed as the embodiment of Singapore’s contemporary theatre. As a Singaporean arts activist born in China, Kuo reformulated the state identity of Singapore through his self-translated play Descendants of the eunuch admiral (1995a), which examines his perceptions regarding the perils of a homogenised national theatrical realm and the tensions emerging from modernisation — an intriguing standpoint for an ethnically Chinese art activist. …”
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Le théâtre baroque du corps démembré dans The Duchess of Malfi by Line Cottegnies

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There Will Be More d’Edward Bond : pour un autre théâtre politique by Eléonore Obis

“…My contention in this article is that Edward Bond’s vision of political theatre is both illustrated and renewed by  one of his latest plays, There Will Be More (2010), which is still not published and is supposed to be the first part of a new trilogy. …”
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Du Bestiaire dans le théâtre de W.B. Yeats by Pierre Longuenesse

“…Birds of all kinds, cats, donkeys, pigs and of course horses : a whole bestiary runs across all the plots and talk in his plays. In the beginning, the project of the Miracle Plays cycle determines this concrete and spiritual landscape, where diabolical creatures confront divine figures, and dissonant sounds contrast with birdsong. …”
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Social trauma and the theatre: a study of the formation of a non-conformist identity by Vitalija Truskauskaite

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Philip Massinger et le théâtre historique : trouver la bonne distance by Gilles Bertheau

“…Although he did not ban the play, the latter heavily intervened on the manuscript. …”
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