Part 1: Crisis as Tragedy and Judgment
1. Tragedy and Crisis: Staging Forced Displacement and Its Reluctant Hero
Yana Meerzon
2. Beyond Suffering or Resolution: Tragedy and the Twenty-First Century Collective Experience
Avra Sidiropoulou
3. Prophets Needed: Five Easy Pieces and La Reprise: Histoire(s) du theatre (I) by Milo Rau
Carol Martin
estimony 1.1. Avra Sidiropoulou in Conversation with Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll
estimony 1.2. Cards of Identities (Poetic luxury)
Hanane Hajj Ali
estimony 1.3. Chorus and Crisis in the Contemporary United States
Peter Campbell
Part 2: Texts and Contexts of Crisis: Power/lessness, Precarity and Identity Politics
4. Caesar Must (Not) Die. Italian Political 'Caesars' in the New Millennium
Silvia Bigliazzi
5. Leaving the world good or leaving a better world? Theatre and crisis through the lenses of Bertolt Brecht
Aldo Milohnic
6. Tragic and Post-tragic Representations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama: Fractured Togetherness in Lynn Nottage's Sweat and Annie Baker's The Flick
Ana Fernandez Caparros
7. Modern African Drama in Crisis? Two African Authors in Search of Identity
Taiwo Afolabi, Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah and Ogah Mark Onwe
Part 3: Stage Narratives of Failure or Visions of a Better World? Bankrupt States, Violent Cities, Global Resistance Civic Consciousness and the Poetics of Participation
8. Theatre remains traditionalist and Eurocentric. About Milo Rau's theatre of crisis
Freddy Decreus
9. How Many More Thousands of Years?: Dystopia, Otherness, and the Greek Crisis in the Work of Three Contemporary Greek Dramatists
Constantina Ziropoulou
10. Theatre as Assembly: 'Theatre Commons' Radical Dramaturgy
Tadashi Uchino
11. Marca Espana. Making Theatre from Precarity, State Violence and Fiesta
Ana Contreras Elvira
estimony 3.1. Aoidoi of a Country's Living History
Lupe Gehrenbech
Part 4: Reflections on the Covid 19 Pandemic and the Crisis of the Anthropocene
12. For the theatre of the Anthropocene
Frank Raddatz
Testimony 4.1. Theatre in Covid imes: A Report from Greece
Anestis Azas
Testimony 4.2. All is related to Me
Su Xiaogang
Testimony 4.3. Plays (we never staged) to survive
Miguel Rojo and Javier Hernando (Los Barbaros)
Testimony 4.4. Troy Too [Original playscript]
Karen Malpede (Theatre Three Collaborative)