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Author:   Stacy Klein ,  Jonathan P. Eburne
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
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9781350449367

ISBN 10:   1350449369
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 October 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface (Stacy Klein): Hidden Territories/ Republic of Dreams Introduction (Jonathan P. Eburne): Stacy Klein and Double Edge Theatre Double Edge Theatre Timeline, 1982-2023 1. Training with Double Edge Theatre: An Address (2022) Search Determines Form: Foundational Writings 2. Proposal for the Staging of Maureen Duffy’s Rites (1981) 3. Three Artist Statements (1992 - 2002) An Artists’ Ensemble: On Autonomy and Collectivity 4. Letter from Sardegna (1985) 5. Do We Search for Theatre? (1986) 6. The Living Actor (1986) 7. On the “Magic Theatre” (1993-1997) 8. Director’s Mirror: On Collaboration (1997) Art, Living Culture, Art Justice 9. Culture Can Still be Alive (1991) 10. Letter to CGN Editors, “I no longer consider myself feminist” (c. 1987) 11. Art, an Endangered Species (1993) 12. Notes from the Director on Authentic Culture and Double Edge (1995) and related texts about Ukraine 13. Art Justice at the Double Edge Theatre (2018) 14. Excerpt from interview with Maria Shevstova (2021) 15. Excerpt from “Double Edge Theatre in Its Ashfield Community: An Interview with Stacy Klein,” (2020) (previously published in The Drama Review Vol. 64, Issue 4 (248), Winter 2020) 16. On the Okheteau Cultural Center (2022) Training 17. Selections from Training Speeches (1980s-2010s). 18. “The Impulse to Train: An Interview with Stacy Klein about the Beginnings of Double Edge Training” (previously in Howlround Theatre Commons, 2015) 19. Excerpt from an interview on Rena Mirecka and physical training (c. 2012) 20. Excerpt from “To Think Intergenerationally” Consortium of Theatre Practices (2000) On Double Edge in and as Theatre History 21. Excerpts from diaries and journals 22. Under the Perfume of Analysis (On Eugenio Barba), 1988 23. Excerpt from an interview with Maria Shevtsova (2011) 24. On the Polish Theatre (c. 1993) 25. Excerpt from “Why Devise, Why Now? Creating the Impossible” (previously published in Theatre Topics, 2005) Appendix 1: Cycles and Spectacles: Double Edge Performances 1982-2023 Appendix 2: Remodelling Theatre Afterword (Stacy Klein) Bibliography Index

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Stacy Klein is Founder, Vision Strategist and Artistic Director Emerita of Double Edge Theatre. Founded in 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, the ensemble moved in 1994 to a former dairy farm in Ashfield, MA, to create a sustainable artistic home which became the theatre’s Center of Art, Living Culture, and Art Justice. Klein has created six performance cycles and holds a PhD in Theatre History and Criticism from Tufts University, US. She received the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2013 and is a member of the Doris Duke Artists Council. Jonathan P. Eburne is Professor of Comparative Literature, English and French and Francophone Studies at Penn State University, USA. His recent books include Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry (2025) and Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas (2018), which received the 2020 James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association.

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