The twentieth century performance reader

Introduction : a canon of twentieth-century performance / Noel Witts and Teresa Brayshaw

Interview / Marina Abramovic

The speed of change / Laurie Anderson

Actor, space, light, painting / Adolph Appia

Theatre and cruelty / Antonin Artaud

Diary entries / Bobby Baker

Words or presence / Eugenio Barba.

Not how people move but what moves them / Pina Bausch

Acting exercises / Julian Beck

What is epic theatre? / Walter Benjamin

Speech upon receiving an honorary doctorate degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax 1976 / Joseph Beuys

Notes on the invention of tradition / Rustom Bharucha

The theatre as discourse / Augusto Boal

Short description of a new technique in acting which produces an alienation effect / Bertolt Brecht

The deadly theatre / Peter Brook

Trisha Brown : an interview / Trisha Brown

Four statements on the dance / John Cage

Current trends/the director as partly actor / Jacques Copeau

The actor and the über-marionette / Edward Gordon Craig

You have to love dancing to stick to it / Merce Cunningham

Interview / Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

The dancer of the future / Isadora Duncan

Some remarks on the situation of the modern composer / Hanns Eisler

On performance writing / Tim Etchells

Hello mother/ it's my body / Karen Finley

How to write a play / Richard Foreman

Notes on Einstein on the beach / Philip Glass

Performance art from futurism to the present / RoseLee Goldberg

The art of camouflage / Guillermo Gómez-Peña

The creature from the black lagoon / Matthew Goulish

Graham 1937 / Martha Graham

Statement on principles / Jerzy Grotowski

Man, once dead, crawl back! / Tatsumi Hijikata

Of the futility of the 'theatrical' in theatre / Alfred Jarry

On stage composition / Wassily Kandinsky

The theatre of death: a manifesto / Tadeusz Kantor

Assemblages, environments and happenings / Allan Kaprow

Interview / Elizabeth LeCompte

The theatre of gesture and image / Jacques Lecoq

Prologue to Postdramatic theatre

Robert Lepage in discussion / Robert Lepage

Expanded Fluxus diagram / George Maciunas

The founding and manifesto of futurism / F.T. Marinetti

First attempts at a stylized theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold

Building up the muscle of the imagination / Ariane Mnouchkine

Process notes on Atlas, 1989 / Meredith Monk

19 answers by Heiner Müller / Heiner Müller

Conversation with Jo Butterworth / Lloyd Newson

Epic satire / Erwin Piscator

A quasi survey of some 'minimalist' tendencies in the quantitatively minimal dance activity midst the plethora, or an analysis of Trio A / Yvonne Rainer

How did Dada begin? / Hans Richter

The five avant gardes or... or none? / Richard Schechner

Man and art figure / Oskar Schlemmer

Meat joy / Carolee Schneemann

Theatre in African traditional cultures: survival patterns / Wole Soyinka

Intonations and pauses / Konstantin Stanislavski

Composition as explanation / Gertrude Stein

Interview with Nicholas Zurbrugg / Stelarc

The visionary landscape of perception / Bill Viola

Interview / Richard Wilson.