Ann M. Shanahan is Chair of the Department of Theatre at Purdue University, USA. Her research interests and teaching specialties include directing, gender and theatrical space, and theatre and social change. Professor Shanahan served as dramaturg for the national touring production of Angels in America, Parts I and II (dir. Michael Meyer), Third (dir. Sarah Gabel) and The Mistress Cycle (dir. Kurt Johns) at Appletree Theatre, among others.

List of Figures
Series Introduction, James Peck (Muhlenberg College, USA)
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Theatres of Perception, Ann M. Shanahan (Purdue University, USA)
Meredith Monk
1. Meredith Monk: Five Decades of Embodied Innovation, Nancy Putnam Smithner (New York University, USA)
2. The Theatre of Meredith Monk: Embodying Wholeness by Working Between the Cracks, Ann M. Shanahan (Purdue University, USA)
Richard Foreman
3. Make 'em dance: The Directorial Strategy of Richard Foreman, Neal Swettenham (Independent Scholar, UK)
4. "What a Time It Was": Richard Foreman and the Heyday of the East Village Avant-Garde, David Callaghan (University of Montevallo, USA)

Robert Wilson
5. Robert Wilson's Sonosphere, Maria Shevtsova (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
6. Standing at the Threshold: Robert Wilson as a Designer-Director, Ewa Kara (Independent Scholar, USA)
Notes on Contributors
Index

"Each volume provides substantial treatment of three major directors, with each director considered by two specialists, combining analysis of the director's practical craft with accounts of the historical, cultural and theoretical context of their practice. Links between the featured directors and other artists and directors from the period are traced to round out the picture of influences and artistic development."--