Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1. STANISLAVSKI (1863-1938) – Bella Merlin

2. MEYERHOLD (1874-1940) – Jonathan Pitches

3. COPEAU (1879-1949) – Mark Evans

4. LABAN (1879-1958) – Karen K. Bradley

5. WIGMAN (1886 -1973) -- Mary Anne Santos Newhall

6. CHEKHOV (1891 -1955) – Franc Chamberlain

7. BRECHT (1898 -1956) – Meg Mumford

8. DECROUX (1898- 1991) – Thomas Leabhart

9. OHNO (1906-2010) and HIJIKATA (1928-1986) -- Sondra Fraleigh and Tamah Nakamura

10. LITTLEWOOD (1914 -2002) – Nadine Holdsworth

11. KANTOR (1915-1990) – Noel Witts

12. HALPRIN (b.1920) -- Libby Worth and Helen Poynor

13. LECOQ (1921-1999) -- Simon Murray and Thomas Prattki

14. BOAL (1931-2009) -- Frances Babbage

15. GROTOWSKI (1933-1999) James Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta

16. BARBA (b1936) -- Jane Turner

17. MNOUCHKINE (b. 1939) -- Helen Richardson with Judith G. Miller

18. BAUSCH (1940-2009) -- Royd Climenhaga

19. WILSON (b.1941) -- Maria Shevtsova

20. ABRAMOVIC (b.1946) --Mary Richards

21. LEPAGE (b. 1957) -- Aleksandar Saša Dundjerović

About the Author

Franc Chamberlain is Professor Emeritus of Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield, UK and the co-editor of the Routledge Performance Practitioners series.

Bernadette Sweeney is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Theatre & Dance at the University of Montana, USA and co-editor with Franc Chamberlain of the expanded Routledge Performance Practitioners series.