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Volume 48 - October 2023

Contents

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Book Review

Article

  • ‘Close but Far, Human but Square, Normal but Exhausting’: Pandemic Theatre in Poland

  • ANNA R. BURZYŃSKA
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    09 February 2023, pp. 82-99
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  • The purpose of this article is to explore different ways of countering the COVID-19 pandemic in Polish theatre that were not only attempts to provide protection against the potentially lethal coronavirus, but also attempts to actively combat other ‘viruses’: the capitalist compulsion for productivity and the exclusion of Others (the disabled, the elderly, women or LGBT+ people). Several Polish artists of the lockdown era (participants in the Quarantine Project, Beyond #quarantine and DIY 2020 Masterclasses, members of Theatre 21, Joanna Szczepkowska and Wojtek Ziemilski) have managed to draw the attention of a wider audience to these problems. During the pandemic, they practised the art of resistance in various ways, including the ‘art of failure’ as a resistance against neo-liberal systems. Therefore their projects can be seen as a dress rehearsal before the emergence of a post-pandemic, post-capitalist, post-growth, more ethically conscious theatre of the future.

Video Essays

  • Hijacking the Familiar: The Work of Big Telly Theatre Company

  • ZOЁ SEATON
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    09 February 2023, pp. 100-104
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  • The following is a transcript of the Q&A with Zoё Seaton on 2 August 2022.

Book Review

Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

  • TRI volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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    15 June 2023, pp. f1-f3
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  • Theatre and Its Enchantments

  • CARIDAD SVICH
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    09 February 2023, pp. 105-107
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  • Theatre is full of failure and risk. The digital medium, too, is fragile. Caridad Svich is interested in how the digital is dependent on stability and how this echoes the fact that theatre deals with instability on a granular level. The glitches in this video are therefore intentional.

    In theatre there is always failure. It is the eternal rope upon which the high-wire act of making is built. At every moment something may break, not connect, fall apart, lose its way. The beauty of theatre is that it is always at risk, on the edge, vulnerable to itself and others, and enthralled by the mechanism of its own co-creation with an audience.

Double Take

Book Review

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

  • TRI volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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    15 June 2023, pp. b1-b2
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