ABSTRACT
In West Germany, the first performance of Edward Bond's Saved took place in April 1967, in a studio theatre attached to the Munich Kammerspiele. It was hailed as the Production of the Year by the theatre magazine, Theater Heute and made the name of its director, Peter Stein, who was barely 30. It helped to establish a genre, the Volkstück, whose parallel in Britain was kitchen-sink drama, and it startled the citizens of Munich. Peter Brook was a West End director before Hall left university. Brook had been at the centre of British theatre for twenty years. Stein's manifesto, published by Theater Heute in December 1969, provided a model for the many groups which broke away from the repertory theatres around Europe in the early 1970s. The International Centre for Theatre Research (CIRT) in Paris might be regarded as one of them, but Brook was not a young rebel and his aims were different from Stein's.
