Theater of the avant-garde 1950-2000 : a critical anthology / edited by Robert Knopf and Julia Listengarten

Introduction / Julia Listengarten and Robert Knopf -- 1. Language and silence: -- Act without words I / Samuel Beckett -- Rhoda in potatoland: (Her fall-starts) / Richard Foreman -- Terminal hip / Mac Wellman -- "Lecture on nothing" / John Cage -- 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 -- "Figure of speech: an interview with Mac Wellman" / Marc Robinson -- 2. Ritualistic: -- The brig / Kenneth H. Brown -- Body beautiful / Naomi Iizuka -- The death of the last black man in the whole entire world / |r Suzan-Lori Parks -- "Directing The brig" / Judith Malina -- "The maids" from Saint Genet: actor and martyr / Jean-Paul Sartre -- "The theatre's new testament interview with Herzy Grotowski" / Eugenio Barba -- 3. Disruption: -- Offending the audience / Peter Handke -- Birth rate / Tadensz Rózewicz -- We keep our victims ready / Karen Finley -- "Text and performance: envisioning Rózewicz's birth rate" / Kazimierz Braun -- "With the bread and puppet theatre: an interview with Peter Schumann / Helen Brown and Jane Seitz -- 4. Camp: -- Turds in Hell / Charles Ludlam and Bill Vehr -- Loretta strong / Copi [Raul Damonte] -- "Notes on 'Camp'" / Susan Sontag -- "Camp" / Charles Ludlam -- 5. |t Landscape: -- The night time sky / Robert Whitman -- Portrait of Dora / Hélène Müller -- The dead class / Tadeusz Kantor -- Explosion of a memory/Description of a picture / Heiner Müller -- Vienna Lusthaus / Charles L. Mee -- "The |t new theatre" / "On theatre: an interview with Hélène Müller" / Eric Prenowitz -- "The |t theatre of death" / "Dove and Samurai" and "A letter to Robert Wilson" / Heiner Müller -- 6. Terror: -- Stripped / |r Griselda Cambaro -- The Hip-hop waltz of Eurydice / Reza Abdoh -- Far away / Caryl Churchill -- "Notes on the theatre of cruelty" / Charles Marowitz -- Excerpts from "Violence-Death-Theatre: an interview with Reza Abdoh" / Hortensia Völckers and Martin Bergelt -- "Terror, disorientation and difficulty" / Anne Bogart.