Foreword: by Richard Schechner
Part 1: Weimar to The Dramatic Workshop
Personal History
Erwin Piscator: Germany to New York City
The Founding of The Dramatic Workshop, 1940
The Studio Theatre
The Teachers of Piscator’s School
Margrit Wyler
Reiken Ben-Ari
Chouteau Dyer
Leo Kerz
Paul Zucker
Gloria Montemuro
Alexander Ince
Hans Sondheimer
Henry Wendriner
The Students
George Bartenieff
Anna Berger
Sylvia Miles
Marlon Brando
Bea Arthur
Howard Friedman
Piscator’s Students
My Personal Struggle to Enter The Dramatic Workshop
Valeska Gert
Lunar Bowels: an Audition Piece
Part 2: The Notebook
Part 3: The Ongoing Epic
End of the Notebook and First Workshop Plays
Julian Beck
By Any Other Name and Maurice Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theatre
Piscator’s Basic Question: The Role of the Audience
Becoming a Director: A Confession
The Inspiration of Joseph Urban’s Architecture
Eleanor Fitzgerald
The Classes
The March of Drama
Theatre Research
Theatre Research Critique
The Plays
The Sheepwell (Fuente Ovejuna)
Franklin Roosevelt’s Death
Lysistrata
The Spook Sonata
Hannele’s Way to Heaven
The Aristocrats
Agamemnon
The Circle of Chalk
The Flies
Tonight We Improvise – Pirandello: Breaking into the Audience
Kandinsky’s Great Insight
Piscator and the Audience
Objective Acting
Between Two Worlds
Piscator: Success and Failure
Piscator’s Return to Germany – and to Berlin
Eric Bentley
Piscator’s Influence
Piscator’s Influence: The Work of The Living Theatre
Afterword: Political Theatre, Theatrical Politics: Epic Theatre in the 21st Century
Biography
Malina, Judith
'Theater legend Malina has written one of the most interesting studies of the avant-garde theatrical movement published in the last several years. Highly recommended.' M.D. Whitlatch, CHOICE magazine
