The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance

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.

Part 1: Mapping the continent

1. Albania

Ermir Jonka and Evi Stamatiou

2. Austria

Gabriele C. Pfeiffer and Brigitte Marschall

3. Belarus

Tania Arcimovich

4. Belgium

Kurt Vanhoutte and Karel van Haesebrouck

5. Bosnia and Herzegovina

Maja Milatovic-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 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 Ljomović

27. The Netherlands

Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink

28. North Macedonia

Elena Marchevska

29. Norway

Ine Therese Berg

30. Poland

Marcin Kościelniak

31. Portugal

Francesca Clare Rayner

32. Romania

Jozefina Komporaly

33. Russia

Julia Listengarten

34. Serbia

Maja Milatovic-Ovadia

35. Slovakia

Ján Šimko

36. Slovenia

Barbara Orel

37. Spain

Simon Breden Santos

38. Sweden

Rikard Hoogland

39. Switzerland

Beate Hochholdinger-Reiterer

40. Turkey

Seda Ilter

41. United Kingdom

Sam Haddow, Hannah Simpson, Anwen Miles Jones, and Trish Reid

42. Ukraine

Olga Danylyuk

Part 2: 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 globalization 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. Behrnd

55. Documentary theatre

Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink

56. Intermedial theatre

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

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 3: 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’s theatre, or 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, the absurd

Ramunė Balevičiūtė

93. Lotte van den Berg: Building Conversation

Lisebeth Groot Nibbelink

94. Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller

Andrew Friedman