Cover -- Table of contents -- Warlikowski Is Us -- The Master of Revulsion -- The Revelation of the Theater -- Conflict Exposed -- Aleatorism -- Pulling off Pants -- A Crippled Form of Social Drama -- Schechner's Diagram -- Phantasmata -- Images and Culminations -- The Ethical Mission -- The Deal -- The Ugly Word "Performative" -- The Wedding -- Rape -- The Break-in Artist -- Melancholy and Revulsion -- Phantasmata -- The Story of a Table -- Diseased Costumes -- The Gender of the Shrew -- The Theater of Neurotics -- A State of Readiness -- Extra Ecclesiam -- The Pleasure of Being Uprooted -- Meat -- Extra Ecclesiam -- The Murderer God -- Rape -- The Story of a Table -- The Mass -- Waste -- The Trauma of Birth -- Dyslexia -- Tortures -- Confession -- Caravaggio -- The Wedding -- Children -- Difference Does Not Descend from Heaven -- Supplement -- The Bricoleur -- Ecclesia -- Persephone's Dress -- Castration -- Lacan's Diagram -- Pleasure without Limits -- Murderers -- A Family Romance -- The Mirror and the Temple -- Narcissism and Imperialism -- Traces and Reflections -- The Potlatch Ceremony -- A Band of Murderers -- The Real -- The Illusion of the Real -- The Wedding -- The Reject -- The Wolf Man -- The Story of a Table -- Stories -- Confrontation and Violence -- The Undoing of Hamlet and Common Unhappiness -- Storytelling Aproach -- Horizontality -- The Transaction -- The Father of Individual Prehistory -- Ritual -- Non-theater -- The Floor -- The Uncanny -- Transference -- A Diseased Costume -- The Blank Screen -- The Mourning Ritual -- New Life -- Change -- The Shared Space and the Third Human Being -- The Storytelling Aproach -- Working Through -- Sacred Bonds -- Extra Ecclesiam -- Biting Chair Legs and Licking the Floor -- Forgiveness -- A Late Afterword and an Untimely Preface -- The Social Drama -- Late Modernism.

List of the Performances Described in the Book -- William Shakespeare The Taming o f the Shrew -- William Shakespeare Hamlet -- Euripides The Bacchae -- Sarah Kane Cleansed -- William Shakespeare The Tempest -- Szymon Anski / Hanna Krall Dybbuk -- Hannoch Levin Krum -- Tony Kushner Angels in America -- (A)pollonia -- The End -- African Tales by Shakespeare -- Warsaw Cabaret -- Index.