Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Introduction | p. ix |
Russia | |
Power as Nostalgia: The Bolshoi Ballet in the New Russia | p. 3 |
A Little Orchestra of Hope: Sergei Artsybashev | p. 13 |
Boris Eifman's Theatre Enigma | p. 23 |
Oleg Tabakov at the Moscow Art Theatre: An Interview with Alexander Popov | p. 31 |
Poland | |
Looking for Politics in All the Wrong Places: Teatr Wybrzee's Educational Theatre Wybrazeak | p. 39 |
Bulgaria | |
Yordan Radichkov's Trying to Fly Against Aesthetic and Political Canons | p. 49 |
Post-Totalitarian Bulgarian Theatre and Drama: Experimenters and Literary Cinderellas | p. 69 |
Romania | |
The (R)evolution of Romanian Theatre | p. 85 |
Former Czechoslovakia | |
The Devil and Brezhnev's Eyebrows: Czech "Anti-fascist" Theater after the Warsaw Pact Invasion | p. 97 |
Exiling Time: Czech Theatre's Post-Communist Struggle to Reconcile Legacies with Change | p. 107 |
Nostalgia and Technology | p. 123 |
Hungary | |
Truth, Reality, and Illusion: Arpad Goncz and Hungarian Medea | p. 131 |
Theatre in Hungary from Past to Pecs, 1984-2004 | p. 139 |
Former Yugoslavia | |
Tales from the Wild East | p. 147 |
Old New Times: A Search for a Cultural Identity in the Countries of the Former Yugoslavia | p. 157 |
Body in Context: Slovene Theatre at the End of the Transition | p. 169 |
Croatian Theatre and the War 1992-1994 | p. 181 |
Making a "MESS" Out of Misery: The Sarajevo International Theatre Festival Ten Years After | p. 191 |
From the Myth of Artistic Independence to the Myth of Artistic Engagement | p. 201 |
Between Engagement and Escapism | p. 211 |
Laughing Through the Changes: The Palliative Theatre of Dusan Kovacevic | p. 221 |
The Role of the Artist in the Dark Times | p. 231 |
Selected Works of Boris Eifman | p. 235 |
Playwrights of the Post-Communist Czech Republic | p. 237 |
Sarajevo International Theatre Festival | p. 241 |
The Plays of Dusan Kovacevic | p. 247 |
DAH Theatre Performances | p. 249 |
Bibliography | p. 251 |
About the Editors and Contributors | p. 261 |
Index | p. 267 |
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