Theater in Trance

Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the Theater der Welt festival 1981 in Cologne 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater Framed by Fassbinders reading of one of the famous essays on theater Antonin Artauds The Theater and its double The audience is left to wonder how much of Artauds radical and beautiful vision is realized in contemporary theater