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Publications by Richard Schechner

Books

Performance Studies: An Introduction, revised and expanded second edition. London: Routledge, 2006       

Over, Under, and Around. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2004

 Performance Theory, revised and expanded edition.  London: Routledge, 2002

Interculturele Puzzels (Dutch). Utrecht: Passe Partout Publications, 2002.

Performance Studies: An Introduction. London, New York: Routledge, 2002.

Environmental Theatre (Chinese). Shanghai: Theatre Academy, 2001.

Performance: Teoria & Practicas Interculturales (Spanish). Buenos Aires: Libros del Rojas Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2000.

Przyszlosc Rytualu (Polish). Warsaw: Oficyna Wydawnicza volumen, 2000.

Magnitudini Dell Performance (Italian). Rome: Bulzoni, 1999.

Performance Studies (Japanese). Tokyo: Jimbun Shoin, 1998.

Between Theatre and Anthropology (Korean). Seoul: 1996.

Environmental Theatre (Expanded Edition). New York: Applause Books, 1994.

The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Ka Postmodernom Pozoristu (Serbo-Croatian). Belgrade : Institute for Theatre, Film, Radio, and Television, 1992.

Theater-Anthropologie (German). Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1990.

A Performance (Hungarian). Budapest: Muszak, 1989.

Performance Theory. New York: Routledge, 1988.

El Teatro Ambientalista (Spanish). Mexico City: Arbol, 1988.

The Engleburt Stories: North to the Tropics. New York: PAJ Publications, 1987.

Between Theater & Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.

La Teoria Della Performance (Italian). Rome: Bulzoni, 1984.

Performative Circumstances: From the Avant Garde to Ramlila. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1983.

The End of Humanism: Writings on Performance. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1982.

Makbeth, After Shakespeare. Schulenburg: I.E. Clark, 1978.

With Brooks McNamara and Jerry Rojo. Theatre, Spaces, and Environments. New York: Drama Books Specialists, 1975.

Environmental Theater. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973.

Public Domain: Essays on the Theater. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.

Book chapters (selected since 2000)

"Fundamentals of Performance Studies," ix-xii. Teaching Performance Studies. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

"What Is 'Performance Studies' Anyway?" New Approaches to Theatre Studies and Performance Analysis. Gunter Bergaus Tubingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 2001.

"Food." Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties. Ed. Linda Montano. Berkely: University of California Press, 2000.

"Die Zukungt De Rituals (German)." Aufbruch Zu Neven Welten Theatralitat an Der Jahrtausendwende. Eds. Sussane Schwinghammer, Monika Wagner, and Michael Huttler. Frankfurt: IKO-Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2000.

"Approaches to Performance Theory." The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance. Eds. Lizbeth Goodman and Jane de Gay. London: Routledge, 2000.

"Organicity in Action, Exercises, Spaces, and Persons: Jerry Rojo's Project." Preface to Jerry Rojo's An Acting Method Using the Psychophysical Experience of Workshop Games-Exercises. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

Articles (selected since 2000):

"Performance Studies in/for the 21st Century." Anthropology and Humanism (2001).

"Rasaesthetics." TDR (2001).

"A Maharajah's Festival for Body and Soul." New York Times, 26 November 2000.

"Already Reworking the Classics of Modern Realism." New York Times, 13 February 2000.

Performances Directed

Yokastas (Stanescu and Schechner). East Coast Artists. 2003

Waiting for Godot (Beckett). Cornell University. 2002.

Hamlet (Shakespeare). East Coast Artists. New York, 1999.

Three Sisters (Chekhov). East Coast Artists. New York, 1995-1997

The Oresteia (Aeschylus). Contemporary Legend Theatre. Taipei, Taiwan, 1994.

Faust/Gastronome. East Coast Artists. New York, 1993.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Wilson). Grahamstown Festival, South Africa, 1992.

Mingri Jiuyao Chu Shan (Sun Huizhu. Tomorrow He'll be Out of the Mountains). Co-directed with Stephen Chan. Shanghai Peoples' Art Theatre, 1987.

Don Juan (Moliere). Florida State University. 1987.

The Prometheus Project (Schechner and others). University of Texas-Dallas and Performing Arts Garage (New York), 1983-1985.

Cherry Ka Bagicha (The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov). Repertory Company of the National School of Drama. New Dehli, 1983.

Richard's Lear (Shakespeare, Schechner). University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981.

The Red Snake (Michael McClure). Public Theatre. New York (closed in previews), 1981.

With The Performance Group

The Balcony (Genet), 1979-1980.

Cops (Terry Curtis Fox), 1978-1979.

Oedipus (Seneca), 1977.

The Marilyn Project (David Gaard), 1975-1976.

Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht), 1975-1977.

The Tooth of Crime (Shepard), 1972-1974.

Commune (Schechner, The Performance Group), 1970-1972.

Makbeth (Shakespeare, Schechner, The Performance Group), 1969-1970.

Dionysus in 69 (Euripides, Schechner, The Performance Group), 1968-1969.