This collection of essays and interviews by the editor of PAJ: A
Journal of Performance and Art covers a wide range of current topics,
such as avant-garde legacies, performance and ethics, art as spiritual
practice, and the theater of food. The volume features individual
commentaries on the plays of Wallace Shawn, The Wooster Group oeuvre,
Robert Wilson and Gertrude Stein, and international theater, with
extended reflections on performance in downtown New York City.