List of Illustrations Acknowledgements (anti-)capitalsism: a manifesto Introduction: Sensing Modernism in Theatre Claire Warden, Nicholas Johnson, Adrian Curtin and Naomi Paxton Part I: Remembrance and Reconfiguration 1. Introduction: Playing with the Past, Attending to the ''Lost'' Claire Warden 2. ''The Right to Revolution'': Ernst Toller''s Legacy on the British Stage Claire Warden 3. Legacy, Embodiment, Activism: Pageant of Agitating Women Monica Prince and Anna Andes 4. Modernist Nostalgia and Contemporary Irish Dance Chris Collins 5. Reaching Out in Both Directions: Suffrage Theatre in the Twenty-First Century Naomi Paxton 6. Shuffle Along (1921) and the Challenges of Black Modernist Performance on the Contemporary Stage Carrie J. Preston 7.
''Who Was This Woman?'' A Conversation about Remembering Modernist Figures through the Body Jessica Walker and Claire Warden 8. An Ode to Black Women Modernists Adjoa Osei Part II: Restaging Drama 9. Introduction: Acts of Translation, Reimagining and Creative Destruction Adrian Curtin 10. Restaging Futurism and Joan Brossa: Provocation or Observation with a Glass of Champagne or a Cup of Tea John London 11. Marguerite Duras''s Theatre and the Boundaries of Modernism Lib Taylor 12. The (Dead) Centre Cannot Hold: Ontological Insecurity in Chekhov''s First Play Adrian Curtin 13. En-Staging Nora: Unruly Modernisms in Theodoros Terzopoulos''s Nora Konstantinos Thomaidis and Maria Vogiatzi 14. After and Against Strindberg: A Conversation about Missing Julie Kaite O''Reilly and Adrian Curtin 15.
''A Voice She Did Not Recognise At First'': Touretteshero''s Neurodiverse Presentation of Samuel Beckett''s Not I Matthew Pountney 16. Pushing the Boundaries: Staging Western Modern(ist) Drama in Contemporary China Shouhua Qi Part III: Transmission 17. Introduction: (Im)material Legacies, Living Traditions Claire Warden, Adrian Curtin, Nicholas Johnson and Naomi Paxton 18. The Theatre of Tadashi Suzuki at the Crossroads of Modernism Burc idem Dincel 19. Stanislavski on Skype Mark Westbrook 20. Raising Her Voice: Presenting the Lives and Writings of Virginia Woolf and Dame Ethel Smyth for a Contemporary Theatre Audience Lucy Stevens 21. Embodied Knowledge: A Brechtian Approach to Making Theatre with Young People Kerry Frampton 22. Appropriation, Abstraction and Appraisal: Modernist Legacies of Contemporary Dance Hanna Jarvinen 23.
Shaw and the Early-Twentieth-Century British Regional Repertory Movement Soudabeh Ananisarab 24. '' Aqui no estamos en el teatro '': Impossible Plays, Queer Ghosts and Haunted Practices Jonathan Heron Part IV: Slippages 25. Introduction: How Movements Might Move Nicholas Johnson 26. Ages of Arousal Penny Farfan 27. ''Make the New Legible through Experimentation'': A Conversation on the (Ongoing) Avant-Garde Sascha Bru and Nicholas Johnson 28. Brecht as Slippage: Interrobang''s Dialogues with Modernist Theatre Machines Ramona Mosse 29. ''What Could Be the Theatre of Contemporary Life?'' A Conversation about the Work of Studio Oyunculari Istanbul sahika Tekand and Burc idem Dincel 30. ''How Do We Make a Room in the Theatre?'' A Conversation about Design for Pan Pan Theatre, Dublin Aedin Cosgrove and Nicholas Johnson 31.
Samuel Beckett and Border Thinking Nicholas Johnson 32. The Writing on the Wall Isn''t There to Be Read: Unworking the Theatrical in the Figures of Adrienne Kennedy Kevin Bell Afterword Olga Taxidou Event Scores (after fluxus) Notes on Contributors.