The Routledge Companion To Theatre and Performance Book

Acknowledgements     xii
Introduction     1
People     11
Abramovic, Marina     13
Anderson, Laurie     15
Artaud, Antonin     17
Bakhtin, Mikhail     19
Barba, Eugenio     21
Bausch, Pina and the Wuppertal Dance Theatre     23
Bharucha, Rustom     25
Boal, Augusto     26
Bread and Puppet Theatre     28
Brecht, Bertold     29
Brook, Peter     31
Butler, Judith     33
Cage, John     34
Christo and Jeanne-Claude     36
Cixous, Helene     37
Copeau, Jacques     38
Craig, Edward Gorden     40
Cunningham, Merce     41
Goffman, Erving     42
Gomez-Pena, Guillermo     43
Grotowski, Jerzy     44
Hijikata, Tatsumi     46
Jean-Claude, see Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Kantor, Tadeusz     47
Laban, Rudolf von     48
Lecoq, Jacques     50
Lepage, Robert     51
Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, las     53
Market Theatre     54
Meyerhold, Vsevolod     56
Orlan     58
Phelan, Peggy     59
Schechner, Richard     61
Sistren     63
Soyinka, Wole     65
Split Britches     66
Sprinkle, Annie     67
Stanislavsky, Konstantin     68
Stelarc     71
Suzuki, Tadashi     72
Turner, Victor     73
Wilson, Robert     75
Wooster Group     77
Wuppertal Dance Theatre, see Bausch, Pina and the Wuppertal Dance Theatre
Zeami, Motokiyo     79
Events     81
4[prime] 33[Prime]     83
Balinese dance-theatre     84
Cabaret Voltaire     86
Cherry Orchard, The     87
Constant Prince, The     88
Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me     89
Dead Class, The     91
Dionysus in 69     92
Einstein on the Beach     94
Government Inspector, The     96
Gulf War     97
Haka     98
Holocaust memorials and museums     100
Lady Diana's funeral     102
Mahabharata, The     103
Mother Courage      105
Olympics     107
Paradise Now     108
Raves     110
Reincarnation of Saint Orlan, The     111
Route 1 & 9 (The Last Act)     112
Sports     114
Temple of Confessions, The     116
Tiananmen Square demonstrations     117
Trio A     119
Ubu Roi     120
Waiting for Godot     121
Yaqui Lent and Easter ceremonies     122
Concepts and practices     125
Acting     127
Animals     129
Asian performance     130
Audience and spectator     132
Body adornment, see Masking/body adornment
Body art     134
Butoh     135
Camp     137
Carnival     138
Circus     139
Dada and surrealism     141
Dance     142
Demonstrations, see Protests, demonstrations and parades
Devising     145
Directing     146
Environmental theatre and site-specific performance     148
Everyday life     150
Expressionism     152
Feminism     153
Festivals     155
Futurism      157
Happenings     158
Historiography     160
Improvisation     161
Installation art     162
Interculturalism     164
Internet     165
Lighting and sound     167
Liveness     168
Live art, see Performance art/live art
Masking/body adornment     170
Mise en scene     171
Movement     172
Multimedia performance     173
Museum display     175
Music, theatre and performance     176
Naturalism and realism     178
Parades, see Protests, demonstrations and parades
Paratheatre     180
Performance/performing     181
Performance art/live art     182
Performative/performativity     185
Phenomenology     186
Play     187
Popular theatre     189
Postmodernism     191
Presence     193
Protests, demonstrations and parades     194
Psychoanalysis     195
Puppetry     197
Realism, see Naturalism and realism
Rehearsal     199
Ritual     201
Scenography      203
Semiotics     204
Site-specific performance, see Environmental theatre and site-specific performance
Sound, see Lighting and sound
Space     206
Spectator, see Audience and spectator
Surrealism, see Dada and surrealism
Theatre     208
Theatre anthropology     210
Theatre of images, see Visual theatre and theatre of images
Theatre of the oppressed     211
Training     212
Visual theatre and theatre of images     214
A chronology of world/performance events, births and deaths     216
Select bibliography     223
Index     233