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 Radosław 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. Multilingualism and Dramaturgy of History and Democracy: the Lithuanian National Theatre’s Žalia pievelė.- 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.
Dr Kasia Lech is a scholar, actor, multilingual storyteller, puppeteer, and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Music and Performing Arts at Canterbury Christ Church University. She holds a PhD from University College Dublin; her research was supported by the Irish Research Council. She has published on verse and verse drama in contemporary performance, theatre translation, multilingual theatre, multilingual actors, Spanish, Polish, and Irish theatres, theatre and animal rights, and puppetry. Kasia also runs a project Bubble Revolution that engages with the process of performing translation and looks at the role of non-native speaking actors in staging translation. In 2018 Kasia became an Executive Director at TheTheatreTimes.com, a global theatre portal.