Kyle Gillette is an assistant professor of theatre at Trinity University in San Antonio. He has published several articles in journals of theatre history, dramatic literature, and performance theory, including Modern Drama, Performance Research, Comparative Drama, the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and others. He lives in San Antonio.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ixPreface 1Introduction: Theatre and Locomotion 5Part I: Upholstered Realism and the Great Futurist Railroad 21One. The Upholstered Realism of Henrik Ibsen 26Two. F.T. Marinetti’s “Great Futurist Railroad” 46Part II: Loco Motion: Railway Perception, Relativity and the Stage 61Three. Stanisław Witkiewicz’s The Crazy Locomotive 65Four. Staging Relativity: Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach 79Part III: History, the Railroad and Political Theatre 99Five. The Locomotive Technology of Epic Theatre: Erwin Piscator’s Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk 104Six. Locomotion After Auschwitz: Armand Gatti’s Seven Possibilities for Train 713 Departing from Auschwitz 123Part IV: Locomotive Social Space on the American Stage 141Seven. The American Train of Thought: Thornton Wilder’s Pullman Car Hiawatha 146Eight. “In the flying underbelly of the city”: Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman 169Afterword: End of the Line? 197Notes 203Bibliography 211Index 217

Kyle Gillette is an assistant professor of theatre at Trinity University in San Antonio. He has published several articles in journals of theatre history, dramatic literature, and performance theory, including Modern Drama, Performance Research, Comparative Drama, the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and others. He lives in San Antonio.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ixPreface 1Introduction: Theatre and Locomotion 5Part I: Upholstered Realism and the Great Futurist Railroad 21One. The Upholstered Realism of Henrik Ibsen 26Two. F.T. Marinetti’s “Great Futurist Railroad” 46Part II: Loco Motion: Railway Perception, Relativity and the Stage 61Three. Stanisław Witkiewicz’s The Crazy Locomotive 65Four. Staging Relativity: Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach 79Part III: History, the Railroad and Political Theatre 99Five. The Locomotive Technology of Epic Theatre: Erwin Piscator’s Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk 104Six. Locomotion After Auschwitz: Armand Gatti’s Seven Possibilities for Train 713 Departing from Auschwitz 123Part IV: Locomotive Social Space on the American Stage 141Seven. The American Train of Thought: Thornton Wilder’s Pullman Car Hiawatha 146Eight. “In the flying underbelly of the city”: Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman 169Afterword: End of the Line? 197Notes 203Bibliography 211Index 217