The Author: Mark Taylor-Batty is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published on the writings of Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett, and has interests in issues of translation for the stage, author/director relationships and the status of the text in performance.

• Contents: Biographical background and social and political contextualisation – The artistic influences of Jacques Prévert, Sylvain Itkine and Jean-Louis Barrault – Associate director of the Gaïté-Montparnasse – Arthur Adamov’s early plays – Directing Samuel Beckett’s early plays – The theatre of provocation: Jean Genet’s drama – ‘Active humility’ and a director’s methodology.

The Author: Mark Taylor-Batty is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published on the writings of Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett, and has interests in issues of translation for the stage, author/director relationships and the status of the text in performance.

• Contents: Biographical background and social and political contextualisation – The artistic influences of Jacques Prévert, Sylvain Itkine and Jean-Louis Barrault – Associate director of the Gaïté-Montparnasse – Arthur Adamov’s early plays – Directing Samuel Beckett’s early plays – The theatre of provocation: Jean Genet’s drama – ‘Active humility’ and a director’s methodology.

The Author: Mark Taylor-Batty is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published on the writings of Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett, and has interests in issues of translation for the stage, author/director relationships and the status of the text in performance.

• Contents: Biographical background and social and political contextualisation – The artistic influences of Jacques Prévert, Sylvain Itkine and Jean-Louis Barrault – Associate director of the Gaïté-Montparnasse – Arthur Adamov’s early plays – Directing Samuel Beckett’s early plays – The theatre of provocation: Jean Genet’s drama – ‘Active humility’ and a director’s methodology.