This roundtable discussion with Hélène Cixous took place at St John's College, Cambridge, on 20 September 2014 as part of the Cambridge ‘Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe’. It was subsequently transcribed and prepared for publication by Joseph Long and Eva Urban to pay homage to the acclaimed critical theorist, novelist, and dramatist Hélène Cixous on her eightieth birthday on 5 June 2017, and to celebrate her important contribution in particular to political European theatre. The conversation centres on the recurring themes of her major plays, many of which were written in creative collaboration with Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil, where they were performed. Her epic modern tragedies are deeply concerned with ethics, politics, social criticism, and ideas of utopian social projects and their tragic failures. Here Cixous, with Maria Shevtsova, Joseph Long, Eric Prenowitz, Marta Segarra, and Eva Urban highlight both the passionate political commitment of her plays and their innovative textual and poetic forms within the wider context of Cixous's writings for the theatre.1 The conversation followed a keynote address by NTQ co-editor Maria Shevtsova, attended by Hélène Cixous, prior to the roundtable discussion, and published as ‘Political Theatre in Europe: East to West, 2007–2014’, in New Theatre Quarterly, XXXII, No. 2 (May 2016).

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“人类尚不存在”：作为一种预言的民主

与 Hélène Cixous 的圆桌讨论于 2014 年 9 月 20 日在剑桥的圣约翰学院举行，作为剑桥“欧洲批判性政治戏剧诗学会议”的一部分。它随后由约瑟夫·朗和伊娃·厄本转录并准备出版，以向 2017 年 6 月 5 日著名的批判理论家、小说家和剧作家海伦·西苏 (Hélène Cixous) 致敬，庆祝她的 80 岁生日，并庆祝她特别是对政治欧洲戏剧的重要贡献. 对话集中在她主要戏剧的反复出现的主题上，其中许多是与 Ariane Mnouchkine 和太阳剧院合作创作的，并在那里演出。她史诗般的现代悲剧深刻关注伦理、政治、社会批评、和乌托邦社会项目的想法及其悲剧性失败。在这里，Cixous 与 Maria Shevtsova、Joseph Long、Eric Prenowitz、Marta Segarra 和 Eva Urban 一起强调了她戏剧的热情政治承诺以及在 Cixous 为剧院创作的更广泛背景下的创新文本和诗歌形式。1 对话随后主旨演讲新台币共同编辑 Maria Shevtsova，在圆桌讨论之前由 Hélène Cixous 出席，并以“欧洲政治剧院：2007-2014 年从东到西”的形式出版，于新剧场季刊，三十二，第 2 期（2016 年 5 月）。