Frontmatter List of Illustrations 0. Introduction The Development of Postdramatic Theatre Postdramatic Tragedies, 1995-2015 Part One: Rewriting the Classics Introduction to Part One 1. Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love Tragedy and the Oeuvre of Sarah Kane Masculinity and Sexuality in Phaedra's Love: Text and Performance Violence and Voyeurism in Phaedra's Love: Text and Performance 2. Martin Crimp's Alles Weitere kennen Sie aus dem Kino The Postdramatic Tragic Chorus Socio-Cultural Politics in Alles Weitere kennen Sie aus dem Kino The Postdramatic Aesthetic of Repetition 3. Tom Holloway's Love Me Tender The Role of Text in Australian Postdramatic Classical Receptions The Postdramatic Realisation of Love Me Tender: Scenes One Three Politics and the Postdramatic in Love Me Tender: Scenes Four Eight The Classical Palimpsest in Love Me Tender: Scenes Nine Fifteen Part Two: Devising the Classics Introduction to Part Two 4. The Wooster Group's To You, The Birdie! Devising via Euripides, Seneca, and Racine The Politics of To You, The Birdie!'s Postdramatic Form Gender, Class, and the Classics in To You, The Birdie!: Source Texts and Performance 5. The Hayloft Project's Thyestes Devising and Performing Thyestes The Gender Politics of Thyestes The Postdramatic Techniques and Violent Aesthetic of Thyestes Part Three: Transcending the Boundaries of Time and Space Introduction to Part Three 6. ZU-UK's Hotel Medea Analysing Emancipation Intellectual Agency in Hotel Medea and the Postcolonial Tradition of Medea Receptions Felt Agency and the Domestication of Medea Navigational Agency and Multi-Perspectivalism in Hotel Medea 7.

Jan Fabre's Mount Olympus: To Glorify the Cult of Tragedy (A 24-Hour Performance) Mount Olympus as Postdramatic Classical Reception Emancipation, Immersion, and Ethics Mount Olympus as Modern Tragedy 8. Conclusion Endmatter Bibliography Index.