An Interview with Richard Schechner

Abstract

Richard Schechner is editor of TDR: The Drama Review: The Journal of Performance Studies and Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of Arts, New York University. His publications include Performance Theory (1988), The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance (1993) and Performance Studies: An Introduction (2002, 2nd edition, 2006). In addition to his academic work, Schechner has had a long career as a theatre director. In this interview, he talks about his environmental staging of The Balcony (1979/80), a production which marked the end of The Performance Group, a company he founded in New York in the late 1960s.