Introduction: A British theatrical avant-garde
Structure: the fragmented and the episodic:
Performing current affairs: the Living Newpaper
Expressionism and Stationendrama
Montage and cinematic editing
Variety theatre and popular entertainment
'Time gentlemen, please': naturalism and beyond
Staging: platforms and constructions:
Former theatrical traditions and the contemporary political space
'Precursors of great promise'
Construction and projection
New lightening innovations
The new stage: cages and prisons
Language: disturbing words:
Poetry in theatre: a British tradition
Poetry, drama and linguistic style
Towards a political poetic
Dialect, accent and vernacular speech
Non-communicative language
Character: the screaming man and the talking feet:
Ancient modes reinterpreted
Isolation: psychoanalytical science and the fragmented mind
Modern humanity: the nameless, the dead and the non-human
Animals, mannequins and robots: new character for the modern stage
Crossing genres: movement and music
Conclusion: A British theatrical avant-garde?:
Crosing genres: music, dance and the dramatic form
Dance, movement and the modern world
Dalcroze's eurhythmics to Meyerhold's biomechanics
Modern dance: theatre workshop's experiments with Laban
The dance of death: the influence of ballet
Rhythms, beats and drumming
'Incidental' theatrical music
The creation of critical dialogues.
