Multilingual Dramaturgies

Chapter1. Multilingual Dramaturgies: Theories, Politics, and European landscape.- Part I: Questions Of Language.- Chapter 2. The Failures of Multilingual Dramaturgies: The blind poet by Needcompany.- Chapter 3. Multisensory, Multilingual Dramaturgy as a Tool for Social Change: Nie Mów Nikomu (Don't Tell Anyone) by Scena Robocza.-Chapter 4. Dramaturgy of Incomprehensibility and Encounter in Odin Teatret's The Tree.- Part II: Multilingual Adaptations.- Chapter 5. Multilingual Histories of Europe: Sir David Pountney on The Passenger and Memories of Auschwitz.- Chapter 6. Multilingualism as Mask and Virus: The Dialogue with Tradition in the Theatre of Radoslaw Rychci.- Chapter 7. Actors as Creators of Multilingual Dramaturgies: Teatro Inverso and Their Transnational Adaptations.- Part III: Local And Trans-Local Tales Of Cities And Their Communities.- Chapter 8. Dramaturging the Multilingual Community: Dramaturg Nina Thunnissen on the Work of Frisian Tryater.- Chapter 9. Multilingualismand Dramaturgy of History and Democracy: the Lithuanian National Theatre's Zalia pievel .- Chapter 10. Local and Global Politics in Malmö's Teater Foratt and Teater JaLaDa.- Part IV:Webbed Dramaturgies.- Chapter 11. Towards Porous Europe: Multilingual Dramaturgies in Rimini Protokoll's 100% City.- Chapter 12. Towards Aesthetics of Transatlantic Theatre: Multilingualism in SignDance Collective International's production of Carthage/Cartagena by Caridad Svich.-Chapter 13. Making Europe: How Anne Bérélowitch's Directorial and Training Practices Open Spaces for New Multilingual Dramaturgies.- Chapter 14. Towards New European Theatre.

Kasia Lech is a scholar, actor, storyteller, dramaturg, puppeteer, and Associate Professor in Global Performance History at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research and creative practice explore theatre through practice-based and traditional scholarship and primarily focus on theatre in relation to multilingualism, verse, translation, migration, dramaturgy, and cross-cultural encounters. Kasia is the author of Dramaturgy of Form: Performing Verse in Contemporary Theatre (2021). She performed internationally and co-founded Polish Theatre Ireland, a multilingual theatre company based in Dublin. Kasia is an Executive Director at TheTheatreTimes.com, a global theatre portal which seeks to decolonize theatre criticism. She also co-convenes the Translation Adaptation Dramaturgy working group at the International Federation for Theatre Research.