Avant Garde Theatre

`Innes has produced a brilliant, sensitive, articulate statement. It deserves serious study by all those whose practice and commitment is toward an understanding and expression of this century's theatre'. - Choice

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1.Introduction 2 The Politics of Primitivism 3. Dreams, Archetypes and the Irrational 4. Therapy and Subliminal Theatre 5. Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty 6. Ritual and Acts of Communion 7. Black Masses and Ceremonies of Negation 8. Myth and Theatre Laboratories 9. Secular Religions and Physical Spiritualitty 10. Anthropology, Environmental Theatre and Sexual Revolution 11. Interculturalism and Expropriating the Classics 12 From the Margins to Mainstream