Contents and the first chapters in PDFJÜRI TALVET 7
Introductory Note
JOHN ANDREASEN 10
Theatre — Five Futures or Fuwtuwrews…
MADINA TLOSTANOVA 20
Hamlet + Shylock. Revis(it)ing Modernism or Surmounting
Postmodernism?
TAM KWOK-KAN 39
The Politics of the Postmodernist Theatre in China
SUSAN LITGATE MACE 58
Co-opting Globalization: Transitions and Native Identity
in the American, Polish, and Estonian Avant-garde Theatres
JAAK RÄHESOO 73
Within the Picture: The Last Ten Years in Estonian Theatre
DRUDE VON DER FEHR 83
Norwegian Drama at the Turn of the Century
MALGORZATA SUGIERA 94
Postdramatic Memory and After
PASCALE MONTUPET 105
L’achèvement théâtral de Babel
LUULE EPNER 117
Playing with Classics in Contemporary Estonian Theatre
ANNELI SARO 130
Theatre as a Market
KRISTEL NÕLVAK 137
Some Connections between the Mythical and
Postmodern World-View in Theatre Today
ELVIRA OSIPOVA 145
Stage Adaptations as a Phenomenon
(St. Petersburg Theatre at the Turn of the Century)
MOHIT K. RAY 151
Tradition and Avant-garde in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana
RAMA KUNDU 168
Cad Baniker Pala: The Return to Ritual and Folk Form in Avant-garde
Indian Drama
JÜRI TALVET 183
The (Im)possibility of a Postmodern Calderón?
YOUNG-AE CHON 196
Performing Faust at the Turn of the 21st Century
MARDI VALGEMÄE 209
Dionysos Agonistes
TANEL LEPSOO 219
Ce bon vieux Molière, lu à la lumière des écritures contemporaines
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BENEDIKTS KALNACS 237
Return of the Human?
IMRE ZOLTÁN 246
Theatre of the Mind:
Spectators and Installation in H. G. by Robert Wilson
MIHAI DINU 264
Discours didascalique et mise en scène
PIRET KRUUSPERE 276
Merle Karusoo’s Memory Theatre
PAMELA MONACO, LEENA KURVET-KÄOSAAR 290
Investigating Wor(l)ds: The Personal Is in the Drama of
Merle Karusoo and Anna Deavere Smith
IMELDA VEDRICKAITE 305
The Avant-gardism of Kostas Ostrauskas’ Dramas
SILVIA RADZOBE 320
Travestied Myths of European Culture
in the Production of J. J. Jillinger
ANDRA RUTKEVICA 327
End-of-the-Millennium Latvian Theatre:
The Concept of the National Historical Past
VERA SHAMINA 335
Lost in Definitions
(Some Comments on American Feminist Drama Criticism)
BIAGIO D’ANGELO 346
La vida como teatro, el teatro como vida.
Fragmentación y descomposición del sujeto en Maiakovski y Pirandello
JAAN UNDUSK 365
Oxymoron als Profanation des Heiligen. Zu Thomas Bernhard
TIINA AUNIN 380
The German Theatre in Tallinn as Reflected
In Estonian-Language Publications (1902–1940)
NATALIA TISHUNINA 389
Intermediality and Yeat’s Late Drama
ELENA ALEYEVA 400
The Battle of the Sexes in Modern American and Russian Drama
ANNIKA NAMME 409
Are Tennessee Williams’s Modernist Techniques Still Relevant?
Brecht’s “Epic” and Williams’s “Plastic” Theatre
LASSE KEKKI 420
Queer Vision and Tony Kushner’s Play Angels in America
ZANDA GUTMANE 431
The Image of the “Modern Man of Power”
in the Unfinished Play Iphigenia by M. Ziverts
Books and Reviews Received 437
About Authors 448
