This volume captures the theatrical and cultural practice to have come out of Double Edge Theatre, which Stacy Klein founded in 1982. It showcases the company's dedication to collective artistic creativity, cultural survival and sustained, equitable organization-building, with Klein's artistic and social vision at its centre.
Featuring interviews, artists' statements, essays and speeches in which Klein articulates the mission of Double Edge Theatre as it evolves, the volume captures the democratic spirit and boundary-pushing theatrical work the company has championed.
In doing so, it celebrates the company's connections across the globe, including its collaborations with Eastern European, Scandinavian and South American theatres, such as Grenland Friteater (Norway) and Diablomundo (Argentina) and its links with rich theatrical traditions, such as the Laboratory Theatre, poor theatre, street theatre and circus). It also documents Double Edge's exploration of the intersections between cultural, traditional and spiritual practice, which extends to their work with Jupiter Performance Studio, the SITI Company, Open Flame Theatre, Ohketeau Cultural Center and the Drogobych Synagogue in the Carpathian mountains of Ukraine, as well as the inspirations of artists Marc Chagall and Leonora Carrington.
The book features a scholarly introduction by Jonathan P. Eburne that situates Klein's writing in the broader landscape of theatre history.
An Alchemy of Living Culture offers first-hand insights into the pragmatic, as well as the visionary, aspects of experimental creation and speaks to a broad and multi-national community of theatre-makers.
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Stacy Klein is Founder, Vision Strategist and Artistic Director Emerita of Double Edge Theatre. Founded in 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, the ensemble moved in 1994 to a former dairy farm in Ashfield, MA, to create a sustainable artistic home which became the theatre's Center of Art, Living Culture, and Art Justice. Klein has created six performance cycles and holds a PhD in Theatre History and Criticism from Tufts University, US. She received the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2013 and is a member of the Doris Duke Artists Council.
Jonathan P. Eburne is Professor of Comparative Literature, English and French and Francophone Studies at Penn State University, USA. His recent books include Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry (2025) and Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas (2018), which received the 2020 James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association.
Preface (Stacy Klein): Hidden Territories/ Republic of Dreams
Introduction (Jonathan P. Eburne): Stacy Klein and Double Edge Theatre
Double Edge Theatre Timeline, 1982-2023
1. Training with Double Edge Theatre: An Address (2022)
Search Determines Form: Foundational Writings
2. Proposal for the Staging of Maureen Duffy's Rites (1981)
3. Three Artist Statements (1992 - 2002)
An Artists' Ensemble: On Autonomy and Collectivity
4. Letter from Sardegna (1985)
5. Do We Search for Theatre? (1986)
6. The Living Actor (1986)
7. On the "Magic Theatre" (1993-1997)
8. Director's Mirror: On Collaboration (1997)
Art, Living Culture, Art Justice
9. Culture Can Still be Alive (1991)
10. Letter to CGN Editors, "I no longer consider myself feminist" (c. 1987)
11. Art, an Endangered Species (1993)
12. Notes from the Director on Authentic Culture and Double Edge (1995) and related texts about Ukraine
13. Art Justice at the Double Edge Theatre (2018)
14. Excerpt from interview with Maria Shevstova (2021)
15. Excerpt from "Double Edge Theatre in Its Ashfield Community: An Interview with Stacy Klein," (2020) (previously published in The Drama Review Vol. 64, Issue 4 (248), Winter 2020)
16. On the Okheteau Cultural Center (2022)
Training
17. Selections from Training Speeches (1980s-2010s).
18. "The Impulse to Train: An Interview with Stacy Klein about the Beginnings of Double Edge Training" (previously in Howlround Theatre Commons, 2015)
19. Excerpt from an interview on Rena Mirecka and physical training (c. 2012)
20. Excerpt from "To Think Intergenerationally" Consortium of Theatre Practices (2000)
On Double Edge in and as Theatre History
21. Excerpts from diaries and journals
22. Under the Perfume of Analysis (On Eugenio Barba), 1988
23. Excerpt from an interview with Maria Shevtsova (2011)
24. On the Polish Theatre (c. 1993)
25. Excerpt from "Why Devise, Why Now? Creating the Impossible" (previously published in Theatre Topics, 2005)
Appendix 1: Cycles and Spectacles: Double Edge Performances 1982-2023
Appendix 2: Remodelling Theatre
Afterword (Stacy Klein)
Bibliography
Index
