TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION - TEXT IN CONTEMPORARY THEATRE -- PART I - TRADITIONAL TEXTS IN CONTEMPORARY THEATRE -- CHAPTER ONE - THE RUSSIAN HAMLETS -- CHAPTER TWO - HAMLET -- CHAPTER THREE - DIALECTICS BETWEEN CLASSICAL TEXTS AND THEIR STAGING IN CONTEMPORARY LATVIAN THEATRE -- CHAPTER FOUR - IVAN GONCHAROV'S OBLOMOV, DIRECTED BY ALVIS HERMANIS -- CHAPTER FIVE - TEXT AND CONTEXT -- CHAPTER SIX - ANDRIS DZEN TIS'S OPERA DAUKA -- CHAPTER SEVEN - OBSERVATIONS ON THE USES OF TEXT IN THE CHINESE CONTEMPORARY THEATRE -- CHAPTER EIGHT - AT THE CROSSROADS OF TEXTS -- PART II - NEW PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS -- CHAPTER ONE - NEW SWEDISH PLAYS -- CHAPTER TWO - "PLAYWRIGHTS ARE TAKING TO THE STREETS ..." -- CHAPTER THREE - TRANSFORMATION OF COLONIAL NARRATIVES IN POSTCOLONIAL DRAMA AND THEATRE IN THE BALTICS -- CHAPTER FOUR - FROM COLLECTIVE TO INDIVIDUAL AND BACK AGAIN -- CHAPTER FIVE - THE DRAMA-CENTRIC TRADITION AND NEW TEXT STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY LITHUANIAN THEATRE -- PART III - REALITY AND TEXT IN THE POST AND POST-POSTDRAMATIC THEATRE -- CHAPTER ONE - REAL REALITY ON STAGE? -- CHAPTER TWO - THE BIRTH OF NEW AUTHORSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY ESTONIAN THEATRE -- CHAPTER THREE - POSTDRAMATIC TEXTUAL STRATEGIES -- CHAPTER FOUR - PERFORMING METAPHORS -- CHAPTER FIVE - POSTDRAMATIC TEXTS IN ESTONIAN, GERMAN AND BRITISH THEATRE -- CHAPTER SIX - POSTDRAMATIC THEATRE IN A TIME OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN IRELAND -- CONTRIBUTORS.