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Critical Stages/Scènes critiques
International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC)
Association internationale des critiques de théâtre (AICT)
ISSN:2409-7411

CALL FOR PAPERS

Theatre and Ecology

Critical Stages/Scènes critiques  is a peer-reviewed on-line journal  
fully committed to the Open Access Initiative. It offers a platform  
for debate and exploration of a wide range of theatre and performance  
art manifestations from all over the world.
Critical Stages/Scènes critiques is indexed by SCOPUS and ERIH PLUS


Guest Editors: Elizabeth Sakellaridou and Vicky Angelaki

Special Issue, December 2022 (#26)

The 26th issue of Critical Stages/Scènes critiques addresses the  
various ways in which contemporary theatre and performance have  
engaged with the environmental crisis that has made radical action on  
the part of both state and society more than an urgent imperative.  
 From playwrights sensitive to ecological issues to theatre  
practitioners putting up ecologically-motivated performances and  
eco-events and environment-inspired theorists and critics, one can  
notice a remarkable cultural production actively involved in issues  
concerning the preservation of the planet from an imminent  
irreversible catastrophe.

When Caryl Churchill wrote her prophetic one-act play Not Not Not Not  
Not Enough Oxygen in 1971, projecting her fears well into the 21st  
century, she was not in much company within the theatre community.  
Very few would anticipate then that the dystopian future she envisaged  
for the world (London in particular) was not the mere fruit of an  
unharnessed imagination. Rereading the play today renders it more  
topical and urgent than ever before.  In the fifty years that  
followed, Churchill has been constantly aware, in her recent work in  
particular, of an alarmingly deteriorating situation, which she has  
now presented as a stark reality of doom but always in an amazingly  
versatile, experimental style. Today, however, a whole chorus of new  
theatre voices follow in her steps. Not only new dramatists but also  
socially/politically engaged directors, companies and performers have  
placed the climate emergency, overpopulation, pollution, resource  
drain and other related environmental issues as a priority in their  
activist agendas. Relevant scholarly work is also flowering, with new  
books being published in numbers, especially in the second decade of  
our century, and many journals launching special issues on this  
burning subject.

Although the present focus on ecology has its origins in the  
scientific investigation of the second half of the 19th century, it is  
only now that it has become an emergency for governments and  
scientists alike and a massive movement promoted by social and  
artistic groups. The new popularity of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People  
on the contemporary stage is a tribute to the Norwegian dramatist as a  
pioneer of the theatre’s ecological concerns.

  Starting with Ibsen’s emblematic position, we would like to invite  
new research embracing all aspects of modern and contemporary theatre  
and performance activities worldwide in the area of changing policies  
for the prevention of catastrophe and the improvement of non-human and  
human life on our planet.

Among the numerous relevant publications we will indicatively mention  
two eloquent titles, Carl Lavery’s Performance and Ecology: What Can  
Theatre Do? (2018) and Dillon Slagle’s “The Aesthetic Evolution of Eco  
Theater” (2013) which point to the two primary directions that we  
would like to cover in this special issue:

•	The political agenda of ecotheatre
•	The form of ecologically-oriented play texts and the aesthetics of  
ecologically- driven performance

Potential topics that might be addressed in this special issue are  
indicated below. This list is certainly not an exhaustive one but one  
that we hope and expect to be enriched further:

•	Prophetic theatre
•	Theatres of doom and catastrophe
•	Apocalyptic visions at the turn of the century
•	New naturalisms
•	Gender and Ecology
•	Sexuality theatre and ecology
•	Ethnicity and ecology
•	Local and global ecologies
•	Interventionist tactics of ecoperformance
•	Realist and anti-realist approaches to the environmental crisis
•	Cautionary and corrective approaches to the climate crisis
•	Interpretative (re)visions

Timeline

Please submit 250-300 word proposals for articles to Professor  
Elizabeth Sakellaridou, [log in to unmask] and Professor Vicky  
Angelaki, [log in to unmask] by 15 October 2021, accompanied by a  
brief biographical note (about 50 words).

We shall contact prospective authors in November 2021
The final version of the articles will be due 1 October 2022
Publication date: December 2022

NOTE: For full details regarding submission guidelines please visit:
https://www.critical-stages.org/submission-guidelines/


We look forward to hearing from you!

BIOS

Elizabeth Sakellaridou is Professor Emerita of Theatre Studies at the  
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has taught and published on  
theatre and performance, English and European dramaturgy (including  
Greek theatre) as well as gender and cultural studies. Her other  
interdisciplinary interest lies in performance phenomenology. Among  
her major publications are Pinter’s Female Portraits (1988), Women’s  
Theatre , Theatre, Aesthetics, Politics (2012) and a variety of  
articles in international journals and collected volumes. She  
currently teaches applied theatre in an MA programme for training  
drama-therapists. She is theatre and culture advisor at the  
Municipality of Thessaloniki and board member of various European  
theatre journals.

Vicky Angelaki is Professor in English Literature at Mid Sweden  
University. She was previously based in the United Kingdom, where she  
held roles at the University of Reading, the University of Birmingham,  
and Birmingham City University. Major publications include: Theatre &  
Environment (2019); Social and Political
Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis (2017); Contemporary  
British Theatre: Breaking New Ground (2013; 2016); The Plays of Martin  
Crimp: Making Theatre Strange (2012). She is currently co-editing The  
Cambridge Companion to British Playwriting since 1945 with Dan  
Rebellato and preparing the monograph Martin Crimp's Power Plays:  
Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire (Routledge). Angelaki also co-edits  
the Palgrave Macmillan series Adaptation in Theatre and Performance  
with Kara Reilly.





Savas Patsalidis
Theatre Professor
Aristotle University
Thessaloniki-Greece
Editor-in-Chief
Critical Stages/Scènes critiques (the journal of IATC--International  
Association of Theatre Critics)
President of the Hellenic Association of Theatre and Performing Arts Critics
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