Table of Contents

General introduction; 1: Peter Handke; Part One: Agit-Prop; 1: Introduction; 2: Introduction by Vladimir Tolstoy Documents Edited by Vladimir Tolstoy, Irina Bibikova And Catherine Cooke; 3: Edgar Snow; 4: Safdar Hashmi; 5: Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz; 6: Alisa Solomon; 7: Dubravka Knezevic; Part Two: Witness; 2: Introduction; 8: Steven Durland; 9: Diana Taylor; 10: Marguerite Waller; 11: Jan Cohen-Cruz; 12: Dan Sullivan; 13: Sudipto Chatterjee; 14: Hollis Giammatteo; Part Three: Integration; 3: Introduction; 15: Augusto Boal; 16: Adrian Piper; 17: Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman; 18: from THE DIMENSION OF SOCIAL EXTERIORITY IN THE PRODUCTION; 19: Living on the Street; 20: from TAKING DIRECT ACTION; Part Four: Utopia; 4: Introduction; 21: from Triumph Des Willens (Triumph of the Will, 1935); 22: Notes on Political Street Theatre, Paris; 23: from Letter from the South of Italy; 24: America has more Television Sets than Toilets; 25: from The Street is the Stages; 26: from The Celebratory Performance of John fox and Welfare State International; Part Five: Tradition; 5: Introduction; 27: Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp; 28: Communal Space and Performance in Africa; 29: from The Language of African Theatre; 30: from EL Teatro Campesino and the Mexican Popular Performance Tradition; 31: The Taumbayan as Epic Hero,the Audience as Community; 32: A Queer Circus Amok in New York; 33: Louder than Traffic Bread and Puppet Parades; 34: Notes toward an Unwritten History of Anti-apartheid Street Performance

About the Author

Jan Cohen-Cruz

Reviews

'a useful text for students and general readers involved in... myriad forms of theatre' - New Theatre Quarterly