Table of Contents: “…-- Prospects from abroad -- Comparing theatrical resources (Peer Gynt) -- Festival fever (Avignon: Ankoku Butoh) -- The quest of Peter Brook (L'Os; Ubu roi; The Ik) -- Coming at history from two sides (Master Harold ... and the boys; Wielpole-Wielpole) -- The tragedies of apartheid (Born in the RSA) -- The Stratford dilemma (Waiting for Godot; A midsummer night's dream; Love's labour's lost) -- The classical avant-garde (Clymnestra; The seven deadly sins) -- Private views, public vistas (A private view) -- A Polish political fable (Cinders) -- An existential ballet (Crime and punishment) -- Jan Kott, super dramaturg (The theatre of essence) -- Part III: Positions -- Opinions and convictions -- Varieties of theatrical experience -- Boards versus artists -- The ant and the grasshopper -- Musical chairs -- Moonlighting -- Moonlighting II -- Liberty and liberties -- The post-modern blues (The post-modern aura) -- Snarls from the bedclothes -- The humanist and the artist.…”