Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Prologue; Chronology of work: Stage work, film and television work; 1. Playing the field: 1946–56; 2. Wanderings in the alien corn: Dürrenmatt; 3. Climbing the mountain: King Lear; 4. Crucifixion in Paris: Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; 5. The embracing of Artaud: the theatre of cruelty; 6. The thing itself: The Marat-Sade; 7. Zapping the conscience: US; 8. The first attempt at ritual: Oedipus; 9. Pushing the boat out: The Round House Tempest; 10. Shaking hands in the empty space: The Dream; 11. Persian tombs at dawn: Orghast; 12. Into the deserts: Africa and California; 13. Flying over the mountain: The Conference of the Birds; 14. Carpet shows at the Bouffes Les Ik and Ubu; 15. Popular Shakespeare: Timon d'Athènes, Mesure pour Mesure, Antony and Cleopatra; 16. No samovars in Paris and New York: La Cérisaie and The Cherry Orchard; 17. Destined to die free: La Tragedie de Carmen; 18. Nirvana at last: The Mahabharata; 19. Farewell to Shakespeare? La Tempete; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.