An overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s.

T, his special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review focuses on a single writer, contemporary British playwright Martin Crimp. Includes a review of Ron Athey’s monography “Pleading in the Blood” and Jennifer Doyle’s book “Hold it Against me”.