ABSTRACT
Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners - directors, playwrights, performers and designers, from Jarry to Grotowski and Craig. These key texts span the twentieth century, from the onset of modernism to the present, providing direct access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating theatre the century has had to offer, as well as guidelines to its present most adventurous developments.
Setting theory beside practice, these writings bring alive a number of vital and continuing concerns, each of which is given full scope in five sections which explore the Modernist, Political, Inner and Global dimensions of twentieth century theatre.
Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook provides illuminationg perspectives on past history, and throws fresh light on the sources and development of theatre today. This sourcebook is not only an essential and versatile collection for students at all levels, but also directed numerous devised shows which have toured to theatres, schools, community centres and prisons.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I THE MODERNIST DIMENSION
chapter 6|3 pages
TRISTAN TZARA Speech from The First Celestial Adventure of
chapter 11|2 pages
IVAN GOLL Preface to Methusalem or The Eternal
part |2 pages
Part II THE POLITICAL DIMENSION
chapter 28|8 pages
BERTOLT BRECHT Prologue to The Exception and the Rule (1930) From Notes on the Opera Rise and Fall of the City of
chapter 34|5 pages
SUZANNE LACY AND LESLIE LABOWITZ
part |2 pages
Part III THE POPULAR DIMENSION
chapter 37|2 pages
GORDON CRAIG
chapter 50|3 pages
PETER SCHUMANN
chapter 55|4 pages
JOHN FOX
chapter 56|5 pages
KWESI OWUSU From Notting Hill Carnival: ‘De Road is de Stage de Stage is de Road’ (1986)
part |2 pages
Part IV THE INNER DIMENSION
chapter 64|5 pages
CONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKI
chapter 66|3 pages
EVGENY VAKHTANGOV Vakhtangov and His Students (1922)
part |2 pages
Part V THE GLOBAL DIMENSION