An edited transcript of an IATC conference held publicly at the Young Vic in London in 1987, with leading European, Soviet and |US scholars and artists, with contributions from: Jan Kott, Erich Fried, Martin Esslin, Anna Foldes, Aleksander Anikst, Guy Dumur, Ruby Cohn, Peter von Becker, Georges Banu, Peter Brook, Elijah Moshinski, Toby Robertson, and others. → further press, → The End of the Absurd? (Recordings in British Library)