Front Cover -- Preliminaries -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Desperate Acts: The Role of the Audience in the Process of Playwriting -- Introduction -- The Act of Writing -- Constraining Factors -- Alternative Routes -- 2 Poetry and Performance -- 3 Minor Asides of Performance in Some Works of Iain Baxter and the N.E. Thing Company: Beginnings to 1970 -- 4 Collaborative Practice and the Phenomenal Dancer: Yolande Snaith's Theatredance -- Locating Theatredance -- Recent Work: Research and Development -- Yolande Snaith in Conversation -- Conclusion: Phenomenal Dancers and Collaboration -- 5 Re-Cognizing Corporeality -- Introduction -- Re-cognizing Corporeal Being -- Some Comparative Approaches -- "Metakinetic Transfer" -- Conclusion -- 6 Conventionalization: the Soul of Jingju -- 7 "Your Mother is Up Here Working!": Bette Midler, the Continental Baths, and the Mainstreaming of Gay Male Sensibility -- 8 The Moebius Strip: Act and Imitation in English Pantomime Performance -- Virtual Reality -- Audience Ownership/Audience Control -- 9 Reception of the Image -- Hermeneutics and the Intentional Fallacy -- Translation of Emotional Response into Language -- Open or Closed Design -- Designers on Designing Shakespeare -- Designers on Critics' Perception/Reception -- 10 Theatre of Witness: Passage into a New Millennium -- About Playwriting -- Tremors in the Earth -- The Assigning of 'Otherness' -- Witness through Theatre -- Snakeskin -- The Beekeeper's Daughter -- The Witnessing Imagination -- Altruism and Mutuality -- The Socializing Dynamics of Theatre -- The Crises of Witnessing -- The Break with Tragedy -- The Millennial Moment -- Contributor Biographies -- Back Cover.