Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Julia Listengarten Robert Knopf 1
1 Language and Silence 23
Act Without Words I Samuel Beckett 28
Rhoda in Potatoland: (Her Fall-Starts) Richard Foreman 32
Terminal Hip Mac Wellman 32
"Lecture on Nothing" John Cage 48
"How To Write A Play (in Which I Am Really Telling Myself How, but If You Are the Right One I Am Telling You How, Too)" Richard Foreman 67
"Figure of Speech: An Interview with Mac Wellman" Marc Robinson 76
2 The Ritualistic 93
The Brig Kenneth H. Brown 93
Body Beautiful Naomi Iizuka 99
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World Suzan-Lori Parks 123
"Directing The Brig" Judith Malina 131
"The Maids" from Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr Jean-Paul Sartre 173
"The Theatre's New Testament: Interview with Jerzy Grotowski" Eugenio Barba 186
3 Disruption 193
Offending the Audience Peter Handke 198
Birth Rate Tadeusz Rózewicz 217
We Keep Our Victims Ready Karen Finley 225
"Text and Performance: Envisioning Rózewicz's Birth Rate" Kazimierz Braun 232
"With The Bread and Puppet Theatre: An Interview with Peter Schumann" Helen Brown Jane Seitz 240
4 Camp 247
Turds in Hell Charles Ludlam Bill Vehr 247
Loretta Strong Copi [Raul Damonte] 252
"Notes on 'Camp'" Susan Sontag 287
"Camp" Charles Ludlam 325
5 Landscape 329
The Night Time Sky Robert Whitman 337
Portrait of Dora Hélène Cixous 341
The Dead Class Tadeusz Kantor 374
Explosion of a Memory/Description of a Picture Heiner Müller 412
Vienna: Lusthaus Charles L. Mee 418
"The New Theatre" Michael Kirby 425
"On Theatre: An Interview with Hélène Cixous" Eric Prenowitz 431
"The Theatre of Death" Tadeusz Kantor 445
"Dove and Samurai" and "A Letter to Robert Wilson" Heiner Müller 455
6 Terror 461
Stripped Griselda Gambaro 465
The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice Reza Abdoh 473
Far Away Caryl Churchill 497
"Notes on the Theatre of Cruelty" Charles Marowitz 511
Excerpts from "Violence-Death-Theatre: An Interview with Reza Abdoh" Hortensia Völckers Martin Bergelt 522
"Terror, Disorientation and Difficulty" Anne Bogart 525
General Bibliography 531
Select Bibliography 537
Select Media Bibliography 542
Index 547
