Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- THE POLITICS OF PRIMITIVISM -- The cult of the primitive -- Bali and cultural colonialism -- DREAMS, ARCHETYPES AND THE IRRATIONAL -- August Strindberg -- THERAPY AND SUBLIMINAL THEATRE -- Expressionist staging -- Eurythmics and psychodrama -- Expressionist influences and Artaudian precursors -- ANTONIN ARTAUD AND THE THEATRE OF CRUELTY -- Form and theme -- The influence of film -- 'An aborted theatre' -- RITUAL AND ACTS OF COMMUNION -- Total theatre -- BLACK MASSES AND CEREMONIES OF NEGATION -- Fernando Arrabal -- Lindsay Kemp -- MYTH AND THEATRE LABORATORIES -- Towards a theatre of myth -- SECULAR RELIGIONS AND PHYSICAL SPIRITUALITY -- Paratheatrical therapy -- ANTHROPOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL THEATRE AND SEXUAL REVOLUTION -- The Living Theatre -- INTERCULTURALISM AND EXPROPRIATING THE CLASSICS -- Heiner Mller and Robert Wilson -- Ariane Mnouchkine -- FROM THE MARGINS TO MAINSTREAM -- Eugene O'Neill -- Eugne Ionesco -- Sam Shepard -- Spreading the avant garde -- Commercial adaptation and cultural festivals -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.