Stephen Bottoms is a theatre researcher and practitioner, and is currently the Wole Soyinka Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement (2004), Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2000), and The Theatre of Sam Shepard (1998).Matthew Goulish co-founded Goat Island in 1987, and has performed in all the group’s works. 39 Microlectures, a collection of his writings, was published by Routledge in 2000. He teaches in the Liberal Arts Dept. and the MFA Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was awarded a Lannan Foundation writer’s residency in 2004/5.

'This book includes practical workshop exercises and thoughts on teaching drawn from the company's extensive experience... a valuable classroom resource... a good introduction to Goat Island.' - Total Theatre'It is a treasure trove of insight for any theatre practitioner engaged in collaborative devised work, as well as anyone interested in the meeting point between aesthetics and ethics of contemporary performance' - Theatre Research International

• A. Introduction(s) B1. Performance B1.1 Environment B1.2 Response B1.3 Body B1.4 Time B2. Process: B2.1 Environment B2.2 Response B2.3 Body B2.4 Time C. Teaching Epilogue. Goat Island Timeline. Bibliography and References. Notes on Contributors

Stephen Bottoms is a theatre researcher and practitioner, and is currently the Wole Soyinka Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement (2004), Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2000), and The Theatre of Sam Shepard (1998).Matthew Goulish co-founded Goat Island in 1987, and has performed in all the group’s works. 39 Microlectures, a collection of his writings, was published by Routledge in 2000. He teaches in the Liberal Arts Dept. and the MFA Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was awarded a Lannan Foundation writer’s residency in 2004/5.

'This book includes practical workshop exercises and thoughts on teaching drawn from the company's extensive experience... a valuable classroom resource... a good introduction to Goat Island.' - Total Theatre'It is a treasure trove of insight for any theatre practitioner engaged in collaborative devised work, as well as anyone interested in the meeting point between aesthetics and ethics of contemporary performance' - Theatre Research International

• A. Introduction(s) B1. Performance B1.1 Environment B1.2 Response B1.3 Body B1.4 Time B2. Process: B2.1 Environment B2.2 Response B2.3 Body B2.4 Time C. Teaching Epilogue. Goat Island Timeline. Bibliography and References. Notes on Contributors

Stephen Bottoms is a theatre researcher and practitioner, and is currently the Wole Soyinka Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement (2004), Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2000), and The Theatre of Sam Shepard (1998).Matthew Goulish co-founded Goat Island in 1987, and has performed in all the group’s works. 39 Microlectures, a collection of his writings, was published by Routledge in 2000. He teaches in the Liberal Arts Dept. and the MFA Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was awarded a Lannan Foundation writer’s residency in 2004/5.

'This book includes practical workshop exercises and thoughts on teaching drawn from the company's extensive experience... a valuable classroom resource... a good introduction to Goat Island.' - Total Theatre'It is a treasure trove of insight for any theatre practitioner engaged in collaborative devised work, as well as anyone interested in the meeting point between aesthetics and ethics of contemporary performance' - Theatre Research International

• A. Introduction(s) B1. Performance B1.1 Environment B1.2 Response B1.3 Body B1.4 Time B2. Process: B2.1 Environment B2.2 Response B2.3 Body B2.4 Time C. Teaching Epilogue. Goat Island Timeline. Bibliography and References. Notes on Contributors