Machine generated contents note: Sect. I Essays -- Decade of Forced Entertainment -- On Risk and Investment -- Play On: Process and Collaboration -- On Documentation and Performance -- Eight Fragments on Theatre and the City -- Replaying the Tapes of the Twentieth Century: An Interview with Ron Vawter -- On Performance and Technology -- On Performance Writing -- On Performance and Film: Tuning In -- Repeat Forever: Body, Death, Performance, Fiction -- Sect. II Performance Texts -- Introduction -- (Let the Water Run its Course) to the Sea that Made the Promise -- Emanuelle Enchanted (or a Description of this World as if it were a Beautiful Place) -- Club of No Regrets -- Speak Bitterness -- Sect. III Journalism and Programme Notes -- I Wanna be Adored: ICA in the USA -- Stella: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker -- Three Works: Steven Taylor Woodrow -- My Body Did Everything I Asked It: Alan Maclean and Tony Mustoe -- Hour in Which We Knew Nothing of Each Other: Peter Handke -- New American Performance: Woosters, Wellman and Vawter -- Recent Installation Works: Index Theatre -- Shirtologie!: Jerome Bell -- Some Confusions in the Law about Love -- Club of No Regrets -- Red Room -- Dreams' Winter -- Hidden J -- Speak Bitterness -- Showtime -- Pleasure.