List of illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors Part1: What is Popular Theatre ?
1. Back to the Popular Source Joel Schechter
2. The Scenography of Popular Entertainments Brooks McNamara
3. The Golden Age of the Boulevard Marvin Carlson Part II: Puppets from Bread and Puppet Theatre to Bunraku and Broadway
4. Bread and Puppets Peter Schumann
5. The Radicality of Puppet Theatre Peter Schumann
6. On Bunraku Roland Barthes translated by Sandy MacDonald
7. Wayang and Ludruk: Polarities in Java Barbara Hatley
8. Julie Taymor: From Jacques Lecoq to The Lion King Richard Schechner Part III: Mask: Commedia dell'Arte and Topeng
9. Commedia and the Actor Carlo Mazzone-Clementi and Jane Hill
10. The Dell'Arte Players of Blue Lake, California Misha Berson
11. Theatre du Soleil: Golden Age, First Draft Christopher Kirkland
12. Wordless Speech Dario Fo translated by Joe Farrell
13. Playing with the Pat: Visitation and Illusion in the Mask Theatre of Bali John Emigh Part IV: Circus, Clowns and Jesters
14. Circus and the Actor Hovey Burgess 15. Pitu's Doubt: Entree Clown Self-Fashioning in the Circus Tradition Kenneth Little
16. Hajari Bhand of Rajasthan: A Joker in the Deck John Emigh with Urike Emigh
17. Clown Politics: Report on the International Clown-Theatre Congress Fred Siegel
18. Part Circus, Part Sideshow, Part Burlesque, Thoroughly Grotesque Hovey Burgess Part V: Cabaret, Vaudeville and the Fun Palace
19. The Origins of the Cabaret Artistique John Houchin
20. A Visit to the Cabaret Dada Alexis
21. Karl Valentin and Bertolt Brecht Denis Calandra
22. From Vilna to Vaudeville: Minikes and among the Indians Mark Slobin
23. Laboratory of Fun Joan Littlewood Part VI: Political Theatre as Popular Entertainment
24. Agit Prop and the Circus Plays of Vladimir Mayakovsky Franctisek Deak
25. El Teatro Campesino: An Interview with Luis Valdez Beth Bagby
26. Dario Fo explains Dario Fo interviewed by Luigi Ballerini and Guiseppe Risso
27. Theatre as a Weapon Utpal Dutt interviewed by A. J. Gunawardana
28. Ridiculing Racism in South Africa ron Jenkins
29. Political Theatre as Popular Entertainment: The San Francisco Mime Troupe 324 Theodore Shank
30. Legislative Theatre Augusto Boal Bibliography Index