Redefining Theatre Communities

Dr Szabolcs Musca is research fellow at the Centre for Theatre Research (CET) at the University of Lisbon (Portugal), founding director of New Tides Platform (UK) and project lead of Migrant Dramaturgies Network, currently leading an international research project on theatre and migration in Europe. Dr Marco Galea is a senior lecturer in theatre studies at the University of Malta. He has written mainly on nineteenth- and twentieth-century theatre in Malta and on postcolonial theatre and literature.

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 Ionuț 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 – Ágnes 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