Redefining Theatre Communities

Table of Figures                                                                                               

Acknowledgements                                                                                       

Introduction

Marco Galea and Szabolcs Musca

PART I: Theatre Communities: Traces, Places and Belonging                          

Communal Solidarity and Amateur Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Theoretical Approaches - Stefan Aquilina

Theatre in Malta: Which Spaces Does the Community Occupy? - Vicki Ann Cremona and Ruben Paul Borg

Performance, Dislocation and Spirituality: Adrift Together - Zoe Zontou

PART II: Performing Communal Identities: Ethics, Politics and Affect     

The Politics of Spectatorship: Community, Ethics and Affect in Contemporary British Rewritings of Ancient Tragedies - Maria Elena Capitani

Living and Working in Tepantor: Understanding Political Theatre and the Community- Pujya Ghosh

Bodies Without Organs and Organs Without Bodies: The Maltese Experience of Creating National Theatres - Marco Galea

PART III: 'Glocal' Representations of Theatre Communities     

Local and Global Stages: Translating Communities in Hybrid Cultural Spaces -Szabolcs Musca

The Economic Communities of the Edinburgh August Festivals: An Exclusive 'Global Sense of Place' and an Inclusive 'Local Sense of Space' - Evi Stamatiou

Strategies of Empowerment: Postmigrant Theatre at the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse - Hasibe Kalkan

PART IV: Creative Encounters: Changing Ecologies       

Community and Ownership: Uncovering New Voices at the Royal Court Theatre - Mark O'Thomas in conversation with Vicky Featherstone 

UrbanDig Project: Theatre for Neighbourhoods - Zoe Zontou in conversation with George Sachinis

Community Theatre as Political Theatre: Towards a New Political Theatre Practice - Marius Bogdan Tudor and Ionu? Sociu in conversation with David Schwartz

PART V: Emerging Practices: Connecting Through the Digital and the Verbatim    

New Technologies for a New Audience?  Using Transmedia Storytelling towards a New Experience Design Form - Agnes Bakk

Manipulation of Reality Through an Interactive Game: Remote X as an Example of New Modes of Spectatorship - Nad'a Satkova  

Feeding Back: Verbatim Theatre and/as Communal Practice - Bettina Auerswald

Conclusion

Marco Galea and Szabolcs Musca

Notes on Contributors