Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements xii
5. (anti-)capitalsism: a manifesto xv
6. Introduction: Sensing Modernism in Theatre 1
7. Part I: Remembrance and Reconfiguration
8. 1. Introduction: Playing with the Past, Attending to the ‘Lost’ 19
9. 2. ‘The Right to Revolution’: Ernst Toller’s Legacy on the British Stage 23
10. 3. Legacy, Embodiment, Activism: Pageant of Agitating Women 39
11. 4. Modernist Nostalgia and Contemporary Irish Dance 45
12. 5. Reaching Out in Both Directions: Suffrage Theatre in the Twenty-First Century 62
13. 6. Shuffle Along (1921) and the Challenges of Black Modernist Performance on the Contemporary Stage 81
14. 7. ‘Who Was This Woman?’ A Conversation about Remembering Modernist Figures through the Body 98
15. 8. An Ode to Black Women Modernists 104
16. Part II: Restaging Drama
17. 9. Introduction: Acts of Translation, Reimagining and Creative Destruction 111
18. 10. Restaging Futurism and Joan Brossa: Provocation or Observation with a Glass of Champagne or a Cup of Tea 118
19. 11. Marguerite Duras’s Theatre and the Boundaries of Modernism 140
20. 12. The (Dead) Centre Cannot Hold: Ontological Insecurity in Chekhov’s First Play 159
21. 13. En-Staging Nora: Unruly Modernisms in Theodoros Terzopoulos’s Nora 177
22. 14. After and Against Strindberg: A Conversation about Missing Julie 198
23. 15. ‘A Voice She Did Not Recognise At First’: Touretteshero’s Neurodiverse Presentation of Samuel Beckett’s Not I 206
24. 16. Pushing the Boundaries: Staging Western Modern(ist) Drama in Contemporary China 210
25. Part III: Transmission
26. 17. Introduction: (Im)material Legacies, Living Traditions 233
27. 18. The Theatre of Tadashi Suzuki at the Crossroads of Modernism 243
28. 19. Stanislavski on Skype 265
29. 20. Raising Her Voice: Presenting the Lives and Writings of Virginia Woolf and Dame Ethel Smyth for a Contemporary Theatre Audience 270
30. 21. Embodied Knowledge: A Brechtian Approach to Making Theatre with Young People 274
31. 22. Appropriation, Abstraction and Appraisal: Modernist Legacies of Contemporary Dance 277
32. 23. Shaw and the Early-Twentieth-Century British Regional Repertory Movement 304
33. 24. ‘Aquí no estamos en el teatro’: Impossible Plays, Queer Ghosts and Haunted Practices 319
34. Part IV: Slippages
35. 25. Introduction: How Movements Might Move 329
36. 26. Ages of Arousal 338
37. 27. ‘Make the New Legible through Experimentation’: A Conversation on the (Ongoing) Avant-Garde 350
38. 28. Brecht as Slippage: Interrobang’s Dialogues with Modernist Theatre Machines 365
39. 29. ‘What Could Be the Theatre of Contemporary Life?’ A Conversation about the Work of Studio Oyuncuları, Istanbul 384
40. 30. ‘How Do We Make a Room in the Theatre?’ A Conversation about Design for Pan Pan Theatre, Dublin 392
41. 31. Samuel Beckett and Border Thinking 405
42. 32. The Writing on the Wall Isn’t There to Be Read: Unworking the Theatrical in the Figures of Adrienne Kennedy 427
43. Afterword 436
44. Event Scores (after fluxus) 439
45. Notes on Contributors 443
46. Index 449