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 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