In this collection, various case studies ground a series of arguments ascribing political force – variously conceived – to experimental theatre. As a whole, the book offers an important rejoinder to claims about postdrama's political apathy.

Julia Jarcho, New York University, Modern Drama

The first of many such projects ... there is some fascinating work in development here.

Platform

This is a timely text, given that the politics of aesthetics has become an increasingly vital issue to contemporary theatre scholars and practitioners alike. ... The essays gathered here succeed in bearing vivid witness to the diversity of contemporary postdramatic practices.

Ryan Anthony Hatch, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art

This is a timely text, given that the politics of aesthetics has become an increasingly vital issue to contemporary theatre scholars and practitioners alike. … The essays gathered here succeed in bearing vivid witness to the diversity of contemporary postdramatic practices, and a few of them stand out as genuinely incisive case studies.

PAJ: Performing Arts Journal