1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance
This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice.
With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters, this book’s first part contains a comprehensive listing of European nations, the second part charts responses to thematic complexes that define current European performance, and the third section gathers a series of case studies that explore the contribution of some of Europe’s foremost theatre makers. Rather than rehearsing rote knowledge, this is a collection of carefully curated, interpretive accounts from an international roster of scholars and practitioners.
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance gives undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and practitioners an indispensable reference resource that can be used broadly across curricula.
PART I
Mapping the continent
1. Albania
Ermir Jonka and Evi Stamatiou
2. Austria
Brigitte Marschall and Gabriele C. Pfeiffer
3. Belarus
Tania Arcimovich
4. Belgium
Karel vanhaesebrouck and Kurt Vanhoutte
5. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Maja Milatović-Ovadia
6. Bulgaria
Kamelia Nikolova
7. Croatia
Una Bauer and Goran Pavlić
8. Cyprus (Greek)
Maria Hamali
9. Czech Republic
David Drozd
10. Denmark
Annelis Kuhlmann
11. Estonia
Anneli Saro
12. Finland
Hanna Korsberg
13. France
Eliane Beaufils
14. Germany
Peter W. Marx
15. Greece
Avra Sidiropoulou
16. Hungary
Jozefina Komporaly
17. Iceland
Magnus Thor Thorbergsson
18. Ireland
Tanya Dean
19. Israel
Naphtaly Shem-Tov
20. Italy
Anna Maria Cimitile
21. Kosovo
Jeton Neziraj
22. Latvia
Zane Kreicberga
23. Lithuania
Jurgita Staniškytė
24. Malta
Vicki Ann Cremona
25. Moldova
Paula Erizanu
26. Montenegro
Janko Ljumović
27. The Netherlands
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
28. North Macedonia
Elena Marchevska
29. Norway
Ine Therese Berg
30. Poland
Marcin Kościelniak
31. Portugal
Francesca Rayner
32. Romania
Jozefina Komporaly
33. Russia
Julia Listengarten
34. Serbia
Maja Milatović-Ovadia
35. Slovakia
Ján Šimko
36. Slovenia
Barbara Orel
37. Spain
Simon Breden
38. Sweden
Rikard Hoogland
39. Switzerland
Beate Hochholdinger-Reiterer
40. Turkey
Seda Ilter
41. Ukraine
Olga Danylyuk
42. United Kingdom
Sam Haddow, Hannah Simpson, Trish Reid and Anwen Miles Jones
PART II
Charting themes
A. Context
43. 1989 and after: East-West intercurrents at the turn of the millennium
Vessela S. Warner
44. Language, translation, and multilingualism
Margherita Laera
45. Transnational and translocal
Benjamin Fowler
46. Staging neoliberal globalisation in post-1989 Europe
Philip Hager
47. Ecodramaturgies in times of climate crisis
Kristof van Baarle
48. Crisis and activism as performance
Işıl Eğrikavuk
49. Brexit and theatre
Ruud van den Beuken
50. Performance in a pandemic
Laura Bissell
B. Cultures of theatre-making
51. Performance spaces and spatial performativity: Theatre has left the building
Dorita Hannah
52. Sharing spaces: the art of scenography – Some European perspectives
Birgit Wiens
53. Beyond binaries: Postdramatic theatre and its multimodal textuality
Avra Sidiropoulou
54. Models of creation and devising
Synne K. Behrndt
55. Documentary theatre
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
56. Intermediality in performance
Chiel Kattenbelt and Aneta Mancewicz
57. Contemporary music theatre practices: Changing performative roles
Matthias Rebstock
58. Regietheater
Peter M. Boenisch
59. Theatre for young audiences in Europe
Wolfgang Schneider
60. European physical theatre
Mark Evans
C. Inclusive and diverse practices
61. How and why? The post/de-colonial as method in contemporary European theatre
meLê yamomo
62. Theatrical strategies addressing migration
S. E. Wilmer
63. Minorities and representation: Performing the margins
Azadeh Sharifi
64. Womxn in performance
Edith Cassiers
65. Queer performance
Edith Cassiers
66. Disability in performance
Sarah Hopfinger
67. Amateur theatre in Europe: Organisation, challenges, and values
Antine Zijlstra, Vicki Ann Cremona, and Anneli Saro
D. Institutional structures
68. Nation, identity, and theatre – Reimagining national theatre
Zoltán Imre
69. Festivals and curation
Katia Arfara
70. Politics and policies in the performing arts in a transcultural Europe
Wolfgang Schneider
71. Academic (and other) performance research in Europe
Peter M. Boenisch
72. Performance training in Europe
Isabel Guerrero and Rose Whyman
73. Community theatre/participatory theatre
Adam Czirak
74. Theatre criticism and online culture/new media
Anette Therese Pettersen
PART III
Surveying the creators
75. Belarus Free Theatre
verity healey
76. The postdramatic extravaganza of Viktor Bodó’s theatre
Veronika Schandl
77. Gianina Cărbunariu, Director-Playwright
Cristina Modreanu
78. Emma Dante: The contemporariness of things past
Anna Maria Cimitile
79. dreamthinkspeak
Rebecca McCutcheon
80. Oliver Frljić, an artist touching society’s raw nerves
Tomaž Toporišič
81. Marta Górnicka
Marcin Kościelniak
82. Alvis Hermanis through the lens of postcolonialism
Edīte Tišheizere
83. Hotel Pro Forma
Erik Exe Christoffersen and Kathrine Winkelhorn
84. Tomi Janežič: Time is a political dimension
Zala Dobovšek
85. Angélica Liddell
Remedios Perni
86. Philippe Quesne: Sustainable solutions for living on Earth. Performing alternative habitats and temporary communities on stage
Chloé Déchery
87. Milo Rau
Peter M. Boenisch
88. Tiago Rodrigues: Memory, melancholy, and learning stories by heart
Rui Pina Coelho
89. Kirill Serebrennikov: A poet of the outside between testimony and political provocation
Yana Meerzon
90. She She Pop: The collective as content
Ralf Remshardt
91. Theater HORA: Acting autonomously – representation and agency in Disabled Theater
Kate Marsh
92. The theatre of Rimas Tuminas: Play, romanticism, and the absurd
Ramunė Balevičiūtė
93. Lotte van den Berg: Building Conversation
Lisebeth Groot Nibbelink
94. Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller
Andrew Friedman
Biography
Ralf Remshardt is an Emeritus Professor of Theatre in the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida, USA.
Aneta Mancewicz is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
