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List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. x |
A Note about Illustrations | p. xi |
Introduction: A British Theatrical Avant-Garde | p. 1 |
Structure: The Fragmented and the Episodic | p. 22 |
Performing current affairs: the Living Newspaper | p. 25 |
Expressionism and Stationendrama | p. 31 |
Montage and cinematic editing | p. 40 |
Variety theatre and popular entertainment | p. 46 |
'Time, gentlemen, please': naturalism and beyond | p. 48 |
Questioning conclusions | p. 53 |
Staging: Platforms and Constructions | p. 55 |
Former theatrical traditions and the contemporary political space | p. 57 |
'Precursors of great promise' | p. 61 |
Using the platform | p. 63 |
Construction and projection | p. 66 |
New lighting innovations | p. 71 |
The new stage: cages and prisons | p. 75 |
Limited experiment? | p. 82 |
Language: Disturbing Words | p. 85 |
Poetry in theatre: a British tradition | p. 86 |
Poetry, drama and linguistic style | p. 91 |
Towards a political poetic | p. 97 |
The poetics of declamation | p. 104 |
Dialect, accent and vernacular speech | p. 106 |
Non-communicative language | p. 109 |
Speaking to an audience | p. 112 |
Character: The Screaming Man and the Talking Feet | p. 115 |
Ancient modes reinterpreted | p. 116 |
Isolation: psychoanalytical science and the fragmented mind | p. 120 |
Modem humanity: the nameless, the dead and the non-human | p. 127 |
Animals, mannequins and robots: new characters for the modern stage | p. 134 |
Redeeming the human | p. 140 |
Crossing Genres: Movement and Music | p. 147 |
Crossing genres: music, dance and the dramatic form | p. 148 |
Dance, movement and the modern world | p. 152 |
Dalcroze's eurhythmies to Meyerhold's biomechanics | p. 154 |
Modem dance: Theatre Workshop's experiments with Laban | p. 158 |
The Dance of Death: the influence of ballet | p. 162 |
Rhythms, beats and drumming | p. 168 |
'Incidental' theatrical music | p. 171 |
The creation of critical dialogues | p. 174 |
Conclusion: A British Theatrical Avant-Garde? | p. 176 |
Notes | p. 183 |
Bibliography | p. 195 |
Index | p. 210 |
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