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Part 1: The 'canonical' beats -- 1. Meditation and immediacy: the I and you of Jack Kerouac's theatre of voice; Tim Hunt -- 2. Howl and the performance of communion; John Whalen-Bridge -- 3. Gregory Corso's dada-surrealist-absurd beat plays; Ronna C. Johnson -- 4. Unfair arguments with existence: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's one-acts and the modes of beat drama; Deborah R. Geis -- 5. William S. Burroughs and the shooting of Joan Vollmern Burroughs as performance; William Nesbit -- 6. The stop: AnneWaldman's early drama; Lisa Chinn -- Part 2: The 'afro-beats' -- 7. Amiri Baraka's revolutionary theatre: black power politics, avant-garde poetics; Jimmy Fazzino -- 8. Sounding across the city: Ted Joans's bird lives! as jazz performance; Amor Kohli -- 9. Radical ritual performance in the early prophetic poetry of Bob Kaufman; Thomas Pynn -- 10. Adrienne Kennedy: a kindred spirit to the beats; Nita N. Kumar -- Part 3: Poets theatre and the beats -- 11. Bunny Lang and the Cambridge poets' theatre in the 1950s; Heidi R. Bean -- 12. Diane di Prima as playwright: the early years 1959-1964; Nancy M. Grace -- 13. Homely persons, rude speeches: camp personalities, cold war sensibilities and dystopian impulses in Frank O'Hara's; Loves Labor, an Eclogue, Jason Lagapa -- 14. Outlaw tongues: the stimuli for Michael McClure's the band; Kurt Hemmer -- 15. Poetry takes centre stage: John Wiener's still life at the New York poets theatre; Erik Mortenson -- Part 4: Early off-off Broadway theatre -- 16. Evenings of bohemian cruelty: the living theatre in the 1950s: Tim Good -- 17. Eas[ing] the possible past the expected: a restaging of Hettie Jones; Tatum Petrich -- 18. Cowboy in the rock garden: beat influences in Sam Shepard's early plays; Deborah R. Geis -- 19. Rochelle Owens: off beat, off-off- Broadway; Amy Friedman -- 20. Rosalyn Drexler: savvy, savage, sassy polymath; Dorothy Chansky -- Part 5: Film and beat performance -- 21. Kerouac's the subterraneans: when film adaptation becomes cultural betrayal; Sara Villa -- 22. 'This was my Hollywood career': Jack Kerouac's on the road and 1950s Hollywood; Matt Theado -- 23. The many movies of Kerouac's big sur; Terence Diggory -- 24. Angel tendencies and gratuitous acts: kill your darlings and the legacy of Lucien Carr; Fiona Paton