The director in a changing theatre : essays on theory and practice, with new plays for performance

Part I. Contemporary approaches to directing

The art of the theatre / Edward Gordon Craig (1905)

excerpt from First attempts at a stylized theatre / Vsevelod Meyerhold (1907)

The director / Alexander Tairov (1921)

The theatre of cruelty (first manifesto) / Antonin Artaud (1938)

Brecht as director / Carl Weber (1967)

Murder of the director / Jean Vilar (1958)

Directing a play / Tyrone Guthrie (1962)

Sandra, holy whoopee and me / Norman D. Dietz (1966)

The director and the permanent company / Peter Hall (1966)

For a total interpretation / Jerzy Grotowski (1966)

The seven imperatives of contemporary theatre and Notes toward a statement on anarchism and the theatre / Julian Beck (1970-1971)

excerpts from The immediate theatre / Peter Brook (1968)

"I can't go on, I'll go on" / Alan Schneider (1972)

excerpts from The director / Richard Schechner (1973)

Part II. Contemporary directing practice: some possibilities

Notes on the theatre of cruelty / Charles Marowitz (1966)

The making of make-believe / Paul Sills, Larry Arrick, Mildred Dunnock, and Alvin Epstein (1971)

An interview with myself about story theatre / A.J. Antoon (1971)

Guerrilla theatre / Dwight Steward (1970)

Info and tips on street theatre / Patricia J. MacKay (1972)

Simulated environments / Alvin Toffler (1970)

Happenings / Dwight Steward (1970)

Building a play from improvisation / John Hodgson and Ernest Richards (1966)

Improvisation / Dwight Steward (1970)

Casting the non-play / Michael E. Rutenberg (1969)

Open rehearsals / Richard Schechner (1973)

Textual montage / Jerzy Grotowski (1968)

extract from Of time and design / Peter Wexler (1969)

Directing for the open stage / Irvin J. Atkins (1964)

Scorn not the proscenium, critic / Robert Brustein (1960)

Designing random focus / Hugh Hardy (1968)

Thought / Louis H. Sullivan (1918)

excerpts from An interview with Grotowski / Jerzy Grotowski (1968)

Creativity: a multi-faceted phenomenon / Donald W. MacKinnon (1970)

Foreword to They became what they beheld / Edmund Carpenter and Ken Heyman (1970)

Funerals, celebrations and novelty / Jean-Claude van Itallie (1972)

Appendix I. Plays for playing

Rehearsal / Benjamin Bradford (1972)

The tiger, the man and the mouse / adapted by Richard Aumiller (1969)

Master of all masters / adapted by J. Robert Wills (1970)

Mathematics / Hrant Alianak (1974)

Good question / Allen J. Koppenhaver (1971)

9 parts in 7 circumstances with conclusion and epilogue / J. Robert Wills (1963)

Love lace / Robert Patrick (1974)

Self-accusation / Peter Kandke (1969)

Eight poem-plays / Ruth Krauss (1965-1973)

The big welling / Paul Reps (1965)

Great waves, small waves / Paul Reps (1965)

Help / John Barth (1969)

Bo / Michael Smith (1974)

", or REQ / Ronn Smith

Appendix II. Evaluating process and product