Foreword
Preface
I. Performance studies
1. The field
2. Means of investigation
3. Terminology
4. Methods
5. Performance models
6. Production and reception of performance
7. Pleasure and knowledge
8. Media theory
II. Theatre and the media: Specificity and interference
1. Theatre within a theory of media
2. Dramaturgy and specificity of the media
3. Interferences between media
III. Four approaches
1. Historical survey of theatrical forms
2. Sociology
3. Theatre anthropology
4. Semiotics
IV. Pedagogies of theatre
1. Analysis of the text
2. Analysis of the performance
V. How to note performance? Reading questionaires
1. Questionnaire 1
2. Questionnaire 2
3. Questionnaire 3
4. Questions about questionnaires for theatre analysis
VI. From analysis to production: Dramaturgy
1. Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream
2. Royal Shakespeare Company's Nichlas Nickeby
3. Pina Bausch's Tanzabend 2
4. Conclusion
VII. Three applications
1. Minetti, directed by Philippe Sireuil
2. The Seagull, directed by Antoine Vitez
3. As You Like It. A dramaturgic analysis
Note on the Contributors
