This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France.

ELAINE ASTON Professor of Contemporary Performance, Lancaster University, UK DAVID BRADBY Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ROBERT CANTARELLA independent scholar, France AUGUSTO CORRIERI independent scholar, UK MICHEL CORVIN Emeritus Professor of Theatre Studies, Université Paris-III Sorbonne nouvelle, France LAURA CULL Lecturer in Performing Arts, Northumbria University, UK BOJANA CVEJIC Lecturer in Contemporary Dance and Performance in the Department for Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands CHLOÉ DÉCHERY independent scholar, France SUSAN HAEDICKE Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Performance, and Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK BÉRENICE HAMIDI-KIM Lecturer, Université de Lyon 2, France GERALDINE HARRIS Professor in Theatre Studies, Lancaster University, UK CÉLINE HERSANT Lecturer, Université Paris-III Sorbonne nouvelle, France JEANPIERRE HAN Director of the Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique, France NIGEL STEWARY Senior Lecturer in the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, UK ÉRIC VAUTRIN Maître de Conférences, Université de Caen, Basse-Normandie, France