Theater Symptoms

o Preface viii Introduction THEATER SYMPTOMS 2 Theater Symptoms I 20 Theater Symptoms II 35 Once Again Theater Crisis and Renewal 45 The "Decline" of the Theater (Theater Symptoms III) SELECTED REVIEWS 76 Viennese Theater Events 80 Correspondences? 86 Moscow Art Theater 94 An Evening at the Theater 98 The Death of Danton 107 Arms and the Man 111 Moissi Epilogue 115 Moissi Guest Appearance 123 Austrian Supplement 127 Currency Speculation: or from Molière to Sternheim to Kaiser 131 Afterword to Moscow Art Theater 138 Jessner and Brand 146 Viennese Theater I 150 Goat Song by Franz Werfel 158 Le Paquebot Tenacity 162 Viennese Theater II 164 Viennese Theater III 168 The Light 175 The Reinhardt Guest Appearance in Vienna 178 The Vilna Troupe in Vienna 181 The Russian Cabaret 185 Yvette Guilbert 189 Ernst Toller's Lame Man 195 Doctor Knock by Jules Romains 200 Viennese Theater IV 204 Arthur Schnitzler's Comedy of Seduction 211 Saint Joan 216 The Utopians Scandal PLAYS 226 The Utopians 412 Vinzenz and the Mistress of Important Men SELECTED PLAY FRAGMENTS 494 Prelude to The Zodiac 511 The Double I 526 The Stylite 528 Tempora Maier 550 Index