At Critical Stages – December 2021

The Aural/Oral Dramaturgies Special Topic of Critical Stages journal, edited by Duška Radosavljević and Flora Pitrolo has been published. The special topic section includes ten articles on the subject with a further four received in response to this call included in the regular Essays section of the journal. (Edited by Yana Meerzon). 

Special Topic 

Radosavljević and Pitrolo: Editorial

Hanna Slättne: ‘Dramaturging from Within: The Dramaturg as First Experiencer in Immersive Audio’

Shannon Holmes: ‘Embodying the Extra-Corporeal: Releasing the Voice from Bodily Limitations Using Mediated Voice in Singing Training’

Electa Behrens and Øystein Elle:  ‘YOU and ME—Where and How Do We Meet’ 

Katie Beswick and Javon Johnson: ‘Sounds of the City: Dramaturgy, Space, Identity’ 

Lisa Lewis and Lapdiang Syiem: ‘Orality as Dramaturgy in the Khasi-Welsh Performance Exchange: Performing Journeys by the Khasi-Cymru Collective’ 

Tomoka Tsukamoto and Ted Motohashi: ‘Aural/Oral Histories of Pain and Trust in Satoshi Miyagi’s Révélation’

Sarah McCourt: ‘Aurality and the Actor in Filter Theatre’s Twelfth Night’ 

Sylvia Solakidi: ‘The Hearing Body in Robert Wilson’s and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Letter to a Man’

Georgina Guy: ‘Staged Installation, Reported Speech, and Syndemic Images in Blindness and Caretaker (2020)’ 

Peta Murray, Alyson Campbell and Meta Cohen: ‘Strategies in The Underhe(a)rd: Listening in to New Compositional Queer Performance-making’ 

Essay section (edited by Yana Meerzon) 

Andrej Mirčev: ‘Sonic Antagonism: The Sounding Audience of Performance’

Anika Marschall: ‘Like a Whisper: Rethinking the Politics of Voice and Performance with Tania Bruguera’

Rosie Garton and Ildikó Rippel: ‘Loss and Being Lost: Performing Precarity through Multilingual Text, Song and Music in Zoo Indigo’s Don’t Leave Me This Way’

Natalie Rine ‘Devising, Decolonizing, and Disrupting American Musical Theatre Aural Anatomy Through the Playlist Musical’