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Twentieth-century theatre: a sourcebook
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Routledge
Publication Date
1995
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English
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Part Part I THE MODERNIST DIMENSION
chapter INTRODUCTION
chapter 1 ALFRED JARRY
From Of the Uselessness to Theatre of the Theatre (1896)
chapter 2 ADOLPHE APPIA
From A New Art-Material (c. 1902)
chapter 3 GORDON CRAIG
From Rearrangements (1915)
chapter F.T. MARINETTI, E. SETTIMELLI AND B. CORRA
From The Futurist Synthetic Theatre (1915)
chapter 5 ENRICO PRAMPOLINI
From Futurist Scenography (1915)
chapter 6 TRISTAN TZARA Speech from The First Celestial Adventure of
Speech from The First Celestial Adventure of / Mr Antipyrine (1916)
chapter 7 GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
From Prologue to The Breasts of Tiresias (1917)
chapter 8 WALTER HASENCLEVER
The Task of Drama (1920)
chapter 9 VALESKA GERT
From I am a Witch (1950)
chapter STANISLAS IGNACY WITKIEWICZ
From On a New Type of Play (1920)
chapter 11 IVAN GOLL Preface to Methusalem or The Eternal
Preface to Methusalem or The Eternal / Bourgeois (1922)
chapter 12 EL LISSITZKY
From The Painter on the Stage Progresses Towards Architecture (1922)
chapter 13 SERGEI RADLOV
From On the Pure Elements of the Actor's Art (1923)
chapter 14 OSKAR SCHLEMMER
From New Stage Forms (1928)
chapter 15 DANIIL KHARMS
The Oberiu Theatre (1928)
chapter 16 GERTRUDE STEIN
From Plays (1935)
chapter 17 EUGENE IONESCO
Notes on the Theatre (1953)
chapter 18 ALLAN KAPROW
From Events (1966)
chapter 19 ROBERT WILSON
From Speech Introducing Freud (1969)
chapter 20 TADEUSZ KANTOR
From Impossible Theatre (1972)
chapter 21 RICHARD FOREMAN
From Unbalancing Acts (1992)
part Part II THE POLITICAL DIMENSION
chapter INTRODUCTION
chapter 22 BERNARD SHAW
From Preface to Mrs Warren's Profession (1902)
chapter 23 SERGEI EISENSTEIN
From A Personal Statement (1926)
chapter 24 ERNST TOLLER
Post-war German Drama (1928)
chapter 25 VSEVOLOD MEYERHOLD
From The Reconstruction of the Theatre (1929)
chapter 26 ERWIN PISCATOR
From Basic Principles of a Theory of Sociological Drama (1929)
chapter 27 WORKERS' THEATRE MOVEMENT
'Agit-Prop' Style (1932)
chapter 28 BERTOLT BRECHT Prologue to The Exception and the Rule (1930) From Notes on the Opera Rise and Fall of the City of
Prologue to The Exception and the Rule (1930)
chapter 29 ATHOL FUGARD
The Coat (From Notebooks 1960/1977)
chapter 30 ARIANE MNOUCHKINE
From Meetings with the Théâtre du Soleil (1974)
chapter 31 JUDY CHICAGO
WomanhousePerformances (1975)
chapter 32 HÉLÈNE CIXOUS
Aller à la mer (1977)
chapter 33 CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
Art in the Dark: A Letter to Artforum (1983)
chapter 34 SUZANNE LACY AND LESLIE LABOWITZ
From Feminist Media Strategies for Political Performance (1985)
chapter 35 EDWARD BOND
From Commentary on The War Plays (1991)
chapter 36 CHARLES LUDLAM
Opinions
part Part III THE POPULAR DIMENSION
chapter INTRODUCTION
chapter 37 GORDON CRAIG
From One Word about the Theatre as it was, as it is, and as it will be (1905)
chapter 38 VESTA TILLEY
Recollections (1934)
chapter 39 VSEVOLOD MEYERHOLD
From The Fairground Booth (1911-12)
chapter 40 W.B. YEATS
From A People's Theatre: A Letter to Lady Gregory (1919)
chapter 41 F.T. MARINETTI
From The Variety Theatre (1913)
chapter 42 VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY
From Open Letter to the Workers (1917)
chapter 43 GRIGORI KOZINTSEV
From AB: Parade of the Eccentric (1922)
chapter 44 BLUE BLOUSE
Simple Advice to Participants (1925)
chapter 45 VSEVOLOD MEYERHOLD
From The Reconstruction of the Theatre (1929)
chapter 46 KARL VALENTIN
From Compulsory Theatre
chapter 47 BERTOLT BRECHT
From The Popular and the Realistic (1938)
chapter 48 JEAN VILAR The T.N.PPublic Service (1953)
The T.N.P.Public Service (1953)
chapter 49 ARMAND GATTI
Response of the Road-Sweepers (1962)
chapter 50 PETER SCHUMANN
From Problems Concerning Puppetry and Folk Music and Folk Art in the Light of God and McNamara (1966)
chapter 51 DOROTHY HEATHCOTE
From Drama as a Process for Change (1976)
chapter 52 DARIO FO
From Retrieving the Past, Exposing the Present (1978)
chapter 53 JOHN MCGRATH
From A Good Night Out (1981)
chapter 54 ARMAND GATTI
The Workshop of Popular Creation (1983-5)
chapter 55 JOHN FOX
From How Welfare State's Events are Commissioned, Conceived and Carried Out (1983)
chapter 56 KWESI OWUSU From Notting Hill Carnival: 'De Road is de Stage de Stage is de Road' (1986)
From Netting Hill Carnival: 'De Road is de Stage de Stage is de Road' (1986)
part Part IV THE INNER DIMENSION
chapter INTRODUCTION
chapter 57 AUGUST STRINDBERG
A Reminder: Prefatory Note to A Dream Play (1902)
chapter 58 ADOLPHE APPIA
From How to Reform Our Staging Practices (1904)
chapter 59 GORDON CRAIG
Study for Movement (1906-13)
chapter 60 VSEVOLOD MEYERHOLD
From The Stylised Theatre (1907)
chapter 61 LOÏE FULLER
From Light and the Dance (1908)
chapter 62 ISADORA DUNCAN
Depth
chapter 63 WASSILY KANDINSKY
From On Stage Composition (1911-12)
chapter 64 CONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKI
From Inner Impulses and Inner Action; Creative Objectives (1916-20)
chapter 65 PAUL KORNFELD
From The Inspired and the Psychological Being (1918)
chapter 66 EVGENY VAKHTANGOV Vakhtangov and His Students (1922)
From Stenogramme of Two Discussions between Vakhtangov and His Students (1922)
chapter 67 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
From Play and Theory of the Duende (1930)
chapter 68 ANTONIN ARTAUD
Letter to Comœdia (1932)
chapter 69 JUDITH MALINA
Notes on a Ritual Tragedy (1952)
chapter 70 JERZY GROTOWSKI
Methodical Exploration (1967)
chapter 71 LOUISE STEINMAN
From The Knowing Body (1986)
chapter 72 RACHEL ROSENTHAL
From Rachel's Brain (1991)
part Part V THE GLOBAL DIMENSION
chapter INTRODUCTION
chapter 73 ANTONIN ARTAUD
From On the Balinese Theatre (1931)
chapter 74 BERTOLT BRECHT
From Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting (1936)
chapter 75 ENRIQUE BUENAVENTURA
From Theatre and Culture (1970)
chapter 76 ERROL HILL
From The Emergence of a National Drama in the West Indies (1972)
chapter 77 LUIS VALDEZ
Notes on Chicano Theater (1972)
chapter 78 PETER BROOK
From The World as a Can Opener (1973)
chapter 79 WOLE SOYINKA
From Drama and the African World View (1976)
chapter 80 NTOZAKE SHANGE
unrecovered losses/black theatre traditions (1979)
chapter 81 HONOR FORD-SMITH
From Sistren: Jamaican Women's Theatre (1981)
chapter 82 AUGUSTO BOAL
From The Theatre of the Oppressed in Europe: Forum Theatre (1983)
chapter 83 HÉLÈNE CIXOUS
From The place of Crime, the place of Pardon (1986-7)
chapter 84 EUGENIO BARBA
Eurasian Theatre (1988)
chapter 85 GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA
The Border as Performance Laboratory (1991)
chapter SOURCES AND FURTHER WRITINGS / Acknowledgements
chapter ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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