It begins again. In an artificial pool, on board a sinking ship. Now in the spaces between words, or the spaces that were words, or in the words themselves as they move from language to language. Now in a room. A seemingly empty room suddenly revealed full, because someone has decided to call it a theatre. It begins again–the same and yet entirely different this time.<\/p>\n
Issue #03 of Imagined Theatres<\/em> is the first open call issue of the journal. Readers from our editorial board reviewed a range of submissions from around the world and together arrived at the 18 selections that follow. Contributors include some of our most established thinkers and makers for the stage alongside those who are in the earliest stages of their creative work. We invited responses to these newly imagined events and have set them together in pairs or triads. For the first time in this project’s trajectory, video and sound join image and text to render these imaginings through new means.<\/p>\n Following on issues that focused on South Africa and Australia, this issue is open terrain, yet it gathers in moments of shared concern. Rising waters lap at the edge of several of these visions, marking the tides of climate change (Attwell\/Zaiontz, Parobek\/Felton-Dansky, Meidav\/Richter) or collisions with non-human masses (Thornberry\/Chow, Schaag\/Woynarski); histories of racial and sexual violence surge into the present (Post\/Harris, Mrdjenovic, Mikesch\/Hunter); while data secretly breaches the secure barriers of more domestic theatres (Rountree\/Condee). There is hope here too, in trans- or non-binary love (Sansonetti, Pryor\/Rowen\/Fairfield), in communication across culture (Saldana), or simply in attending to objects or selves, with care (Svich\/Anderson, D\u2019Amato\/Gillette). Other pieces make use of the theatre as a time machine that replays the past, but with a difference (Turek\/Miller, Levine), or practices divergent futures and ends (Marlin\/Williams, Gabelmann\/Thomas).<\/p>\n It has been a great pleasure to spend time with these pieces. I see conversations emerging between them that resonate with the larger archive of Imagined Theatres, but I also see new strands of thought emerging in surprising appearances far removed from the repertoire of what seemed possible. So it is with all beginnings, as Edward Said noted in his book on the subject, for \u201cbeginning is making or producing difference … difference which is the result of combining the already-familiar with the fertile novelty of human work.” We start somewhere recognizable\u2014a space that we think known, a theatre mapped by generations of scripts and scores\u2014and diverge anew to discover a field where we once saw a window or wall.<\/p>\n So let us begin again. And then again. And again. Eighteen times. And then again.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Daniel Sack
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