An Alchemy of Living Culture

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 Duffyâs Rites (1981)
3. Three Artist Statements (1992 - 2002)

An Artistsâ 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 âMagic Theatreâ (1993-1997)
8. Directorâs Mirror: On Collaboration (1997)

Art, Living Culture, Art Justice

9. Culture Can Still be Alive (1991)
10. Letter to CGN Editors, âI no longer consider myself feministâ (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 âDouble Edge Theatre in Its Ashfield Community: An Interview with Stacy Klein,â (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. âThe Impulse to Train: An Interview with Stacy Klein about the Beginnings of Double Edge Trainingâ (previously in Howlround Theatre Commons, 2015)
19. Excerpt from an interview on Rena Mirecka and physical training (c. 2012)
20. Excerpt from âTo Think Intergenerationallyâ 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 âWhy Devise, Why Now? Creating the Impossibleâ (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