The twentieth century performance reader / edited by Teresa Brayshaw and Noel Witts.

Introduction : a canon of twentieth-century performance / Noel Witts and Teresa Brayshaw
Interview / Marina Abramovic
The speed of change / Laurie Anderson
Actor, space, light, painting / Adolphe Appia
Theatre and cruelty / Antonin Artaud
Diary entries / Bobby Baker
Words or presence / Eugenio Barba.
Not how people move but what moves them / Pina Bausch
Acting exercises / Julian Beck
What is epic theater? / Walter Benjamin
Speech upon receiving an honorary doctorate degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax 1976 / Joseph Beuys
Notes on the invention of tradition / Rustom Bharucha
The theater as discourse / Augusto Boal
Short description of a new technique of acting which produces an alienation effect / Bertolt Brecht
The deadly theatre / Peter Brook
Trisha Brown : an interview / Trisha Brown
Four statements on the dance / John Cage
Current trends/the director as partly actor / Jacques Copeau
The actor and the über-marionette / Edward Gordon Craig
You have to love dancing to stick to it / Merce Cunningham
Interview / Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
The dancer of the future / Isadora Duncan
Some remarks on the situation of the modern composer / Hanns Eisler
On performance writing / Tim Etchells
Hello mother/It's my body / Karen Finley
How to write a play / Richard Foreman
Notes on Einstein on the beach / Philip Glass
Performance art from futurism to the present / RoseLee Goldberg
The art of camouflage / Guillermo Gómez-Peña
The creature from the Black Lagoon / Matthew Goulish
Graham 1937 / Martha Graham
Statement of principles / Jerzy Grotowski
Man, once dead, crawl back! / Tatsumi Hijikata
Of the futility of the 'theatrical' in theater / Alfred Jarry
On stage composition / Wassily Kandinsky
The theatre of death: a manifesto / Tadeusz Kantor
Assemblages, environments and happenings / Allan Kaprow
Interview / Elizabeth LeCompte
The theatre of gesture and image / Jacques Lecoq
Prologue to Postdramatic theatre / Hans-Thies Lehmann
Robert Lepage in discussion / Robert Lepage
Expanded Fluxus diagram / George Maciunas
The founding and manifesto of futurism / F.T. Marinetti
First attempts at a stylized theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold
Building up the muscle of the imagination / Ariane Mnouchkine
Process notes on Atlas, 1989 / Meredith Monk
19 answers by Heiner Müller / Heiner Müller
Conversation with Jo Butterworth / Lloyd Newson
Epic satire / Erwin Piscator
A quasi survey of some 'minimalist' tendencies in the quantitatively minimal dance activity midst the plethora, or an analysis of Trio A / Yvonne Rainer
How did Dada begin? / Hans Richter
The five avant gardes or... or none? / Richard Schechner
Man and art figure / Oskar Schlemmer
Meat joy / Carolee Schneemann
Theatre in African traditional cultures: survival patterns / Wole Soyinka
Intonations and pauses / Konstantin Stanislavski
Composition as explanation / Gertrude Stein
Interview with Nicholas Zurbrugg / Stelarc
The visionary landscape of perception / Bill Viola
Interview / Robert Wilson.