ABSTRACT
During the final decade of the twentieth century, the Berlin and indeed the German stage was dominated by the figure of Frank Castorf (b. 1951), who, at the helm of the Berlin Volksbühne, not only assumed a leading position among the German stage directors of this period but also presented at his theatre a very large proportion of the most praised and influential directors, authors and designers of this period. This essay will attempt a necessarily brief overview of this remarkable achievement and suggest something of its experimental range and importance.
