This year's first issue is dedicated to the topic of community in theatre. How does theatre shape community? Does it have any impact on wider society? How is community inscribed in the dramatic text itself? These are just some of the questions that domestic and foreign authors tackle while analyzing examples from the theatre history of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The number was encouraged 50th anniversary of the Glej Theatre in 2020, when an international scientific symposium on the topic was also held The community works. The discussions bring an analysis of Slovenian experimental theatres (Tomaž Toporišič), Croatian theatre scene (Višnja Kačić Rogošić). They further discuss the differences between creative and community theatre (Aldo Milohnić) and between dramatic and non-dramatic texts (Gašper Troha). They are complemented by analyses of various contemporary examples of theatre collectives (Branko Jordan) and examples of theatre's intervention in the wider social community in Ghana (Promise Nyatepeh Nyatuame, and Akosua Abdalah), Mexico (Marina Pallarès Elias) and the Czech Republic (Intelektrurálně Collective).
The discussions are complemented by two reviews. In the first, Eva Kučera Šmon presents the book Mala Kline Theaters of potentialityand in the second, Kaja Jurgele's book Birgit Fritz InExActArt: August Boal's Autopoietic Theater.
The first issue of the magazine in 2021 was presented on June 23, 2021 at 10 a.m. in hall SLOGI by:
Gašper Troha, editor
Tomaž Toporišič, author of the discussion in this issue
The journal is included in MLA International Bibliography (Directory of Periodicals), Scopus and DOAJ. The publication was financially supported by the Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
