Gramma 22.2 (2014): "The Geographies of Contemporary Greek Theatre: About Utopias, Dystopias and Heterotopias".

Contains: Introduction: Savas Patsalidis and Anna Stavrakopoulou, "From the Years of Utopia to the Years of Dystopia" (pp. 7-16).

The Geographies of Contemporary Greek Playwriting:

Lina Rosi, “The Diverse Landscape of Contemporary Greek Playwriting” (pp. 19-36); Theodoros Grammatas, “Greek Society during the Period of Crisis: The Role of History as a Mechanism of Repelling the Present” (pp. 37-45); Ioanna Alexandri, “Transformations of ‘Home’ in Contemporary Greek Drama: From a Domicentric View toward Space Decenterings” (pp. 47-60); Dimitra Kondylaki, “The ‘Polis’ and the ‘Political’ in Contemporary Greek Drama since the Eruption of the Greek Crisis: A First Appraisal (2009 -2015)” (pp. 61-74).

About Sameness, Otherness, Authenticity, and Hybridity:

Grigoris Ioannidis, “‘Facing Mirrors’: Contemporary Greek Theatre Productions and the Issue of Identity” (pp. 75-94); Eleni Papazoglou, “Self and Other in Aeschylus’ Persians. A propos de Gotscheff” (pp. 95-107); Eleftheria Ioannidou and Natasha Siouzouli, “Crisis, Ruptures, and the Rapture of an Imperceptible Aesthetics: A Recent History of the Hellenic Festival” (pp. 109-120); Avra Sidiropoulou, “Directors’ Theatre in Greece: Stages of Authorship in the Work of Michael Marmarinos, Yiannis Houvardas, and Theodoros Terzopoulos” (pp. 121-133); Ioulia Pipinia and Andreas Dimitriadis, “Refashioning Dramaturgy: A Stage Rewriting of a 19th-c. Play in 2013 Greece” (pp. 135-144).

Alternative Geographies of (Re)Acting:

Katia Arfara, “Reframing the Real: The Blitz Theatre Group and the Awareness of Time” (pp. 147-161); Marina Kotzamani, “Greek History as Environmental Performance: Iannis Xenakis’ Mycenae Polytopon and Beyond” (pp. 163-178); Giorgos Pefanis, “The Streets Belong to the People: Scenes and Heterotopias in the City” (pp. 179-187); Elizabeth Sakellaridou, “Whose Performance? The Politics of Protest and Terror in Greek Civic Life” (pp. 189-202).