Europe is a continent in transition. In the past five years 12 new states have emerged in a continent in which only five countries have had stable borders for more than a 100 years. Letters from Europe seeks to explore Europe's performance forms, the relationship of the old and new, the minority theatres of Europe and the place of dissident theatres in Europe now through the framing device of the letter. Letters from theatre makers, artists and critics will accompany in-depth articles and interviews on European performance today. The volume includes contributions from Knut Ove Arntzen,...

On America will respond to the powerful presence in contemporary culture of aesthetic forms and political strategies derived from North America. Counterpointing Letters from Europe, this book will address the use and abuse of images of and from North America, the deconstruction in performance theory and practice of North American art, film and performance, and the presentation of America as genre and fiction.

Performance Research: On Ritual will examine a range of ritual practices bordering on or intended to be seen as theatre. It will explore both historical and systematic connections between ritual and theatre, present the work of contemporary artists, and reflect on the role and meaning of ritual for theatrical purposes in the late 20th century.

Explores themes reflected in the overlap between performance, food and cookery. The book looks at food in performance and food as performance art, and the performative in cookery and its staging in the kitchen and at the table. Articles and artists' pages develop piquant analogies and correlations between the processes in cooking and performance making, and pay testament to the theatricality of food and speculate on food as a model for theatre: multi-sensory, processual and communal.