Foreword
Introduction
PART I
1 An American in Paris
Classical Therapy sous l’influence de...ou Thérapie
Livre des Splendeurs
2 O. H. Theatre
Place + Target
Café Amérique
Faustus ou La fête électrique
Die Fledermaus
3 An awkward ugly American
La Robe de Chambre de Georges Bataille
Birth of the Poet
Ma Vie, Ma Mort
Africanus Instructus
Love and Science
Don Giovanni
4 On the road
Permanent Brain Damage
Pearls For Pigs
Hotel Fuck
Bad Boy Nietzsche!
Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty!
Panic! (How to Be Happy!)
The Bridge Project
PART II
5 Foreman’s unbalancing acts
What is drama for?
The manifestos
Postdramatic theatre
Staging the texts
6 Cracking the code
Directorial strategies
The actor’s task
Scenography
A critical question
7 Staging and Subjectivity
In the rehearsal room
The inevitability of failure
Film is evil…
…Radio is good
Hysterical
Scenography revisited
Wake up!
Todo Con Nada
PART III
Georges Bataille’s Bathrobe (La Robe de Chambre de Georges Bataille)
Afterword
Biography
Neal Swettenham is a former head of drama and visiting lecturer at Loughborough University, UK, and founded the Richard Foreman Research Archive housed there.
