Twentieth-century theatre : a sourcebook / edited by Richard Drain.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-367) and index.

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A diverse selection of original texts on theatre by its most creative practitioners - actors, writers, directors and designers. Contributors include Jarry, Ionescu, Shaw, Brecht, Strindberg, Stanislawski, Lorca, Brook, Soyinka, Boal, Barba.

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 -- Womanhouse--Performances (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.P--Public 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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