John Willett (ed.

), Brecht on Theatre, Methuen

Recommended reading
John Fuegi, Brecht: Chaos According to Plan, CUP
Peter Thomson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, CUP
Margaret Eddershaw, Performing Brecht, Methuen
Elizabeth Wright, Postmodern Brecht, Routledge

READING WEEK

Boals praxis, 21 November
Required reading
The Purpose of Playing, Chapter 9
Recommended reading
Augusto Boal, The Theatre of the Oppressed, Pluto
Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors, Routledge
Augusto Boal, The Rainbow of Desire, Routledge
Mady Schutzman and Jan Cohen-Cruz, Playing Boal, Routledge

Brook and Barba, 28 November
Required reading
The Purpose of Playing, Chapters 12 and 13
Recommended reading
Eugenio Barba, The Paper Canoe, Routledge
Eugenio Barba and Nicolas Savarese, A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology, Routledge
Peter Brook, The Shifting Point, Methuen
Ian Watson, Towards a Third Theatre: Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret, Routledge
David Williams (ed.), Peter Brook: a Theatrical Casebook, Methuen

Artaud, 5 December
Required reading
The Purpose of Playing, chapter 10
Antonin Artaud, The Theatre of Cruelty, John Calder
Recommended reading
Stephen Barber, Antonin Artaud, Blows and Bombs, Faber
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, Farrar and Strauss
Timothy Wiles, The Theatre Event, Chicago University Press

Grotowski, 12 December
Required reading
The Purpose of Playing, chapter 11
Grotowski, Towards a Poor Theatre, Methuen
Recommended reading
Timothy Wiles, The Theatre Event, Chicago University Press
Richard Schechner and Lisa Wolford, The Grotowski Workbook, Routledge
Jennifer Kumiega, The Theatre of Grotowski, Methuen